University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: March 2019

Smoking Cessation System Changes Succeed in Minnesota American Indian Health Clinics

UW-CTRI Scientist Dr. Bruce Christiansen co-authored the recently published paper, “Feasibility of a Systems Approach to Treat Commercial Tobacco Dependence within American Indian Health Clinics,” in the journal American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research. The pilot study, involving three American Indian health clinics in Minnesota, discovered that system changes significantly increased the rate …

Vaping a Hot Topic at SRNT in San Francisco, Including in UW-CTRI Presentations

Vaping was a hot topic at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine or Tobacco (SRNT) held at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco, as use of vaping products have ballooned across America and researchers have fresh findings to share. One of them was UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. …