UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Use of modest financial incentives to encourage low-income smokers to engage with the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line is a cost-effective option, according to a paper written by Dr. Marlon Mundt and colleagues at UW-CTRI. Financial incentives for increasing smoking quit rates among Medicaid recipients is cost effective, according to the paper in the journal Value …
The following is an editorial commentary by David “Mac” Macmaster: The Wisconsin Nicotine Treatment Integration Project (WINTIP) was launched in 2008. WINTIP has been advocating tobacco integration in Wisconsin behavioral-health services for 10 years now. What has happened in this WINTIP decade? For one thing, our best information is that at least 70,000 Wisconsin residents …
UW-CTRI staff will present 17 times at SRNT 2019 in San Francisco, via seven presentations and 10 research posters. Pre-conference Workshop An Update to the Basics: Current Approaches for Measuring and Understanding Key Individual Differences and Cessation Outcomes. Dr. Megan Piper, presenter. Treatment Network pre-conference workshop 7. Wednesday, February 20, 8:30-11:30 a.m. Symposia and Presentations 1. …
UW-CTRI Researchers Dr. Wendy Theobald (right) and Dr. Michael Fiore have contributed three articles to the Italian medical journal Tabaccologia, encouraging Italians to quit smoking and clinicians to lead by example and through systematic treatment. The articles, written by Theobald, have included: Tabaccologia, the official publication for Societa Italiana di Tabaccologia (SITAB), has published rigorous, …
While many smokers make New Year’s resolutions to quit smoking, only about half of cancer patients who smoke are offered help to quit by their oncology teams. That’s a lost opportunity, wrote experts in a new commentary today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Research shows quitting smoking after a cancer diagnosis is associated …