WFYI Radio in Indianapolis tells the story of cancer patients trying to quit smoking, and why more oncologists aren’t helping them quit. UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore offers his insights, based on his work with oncology centers and his commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine co-authored with Dr. Robert Croyle and Dr. Glen …
UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Megan Piper and UW-CTRI Outreach Specialist Amy Skora are developing a new app called Learn, Connect, and Quit (LCQ) to increase conversations between patients who smoke and their healthcare providers about smoking-cessation resources. Medical assistants will give patients a tablet with the app to use while waiting for the doctor. …
Incentive programs assisting low-income pregnant women with quitting tobacco can be successful, according to a recently published paper in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. UW-CTRI collaborated with the Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation’s (WWHF) First Breath program to conduct the study of roughly 1,000 pregnant women. The incentive group had a higher abstinence rate …
An innovative “triple therapy” of three FDA-approved medications taken together—along with coaching on how to quit smoking—appears safe and shows promise, according to a UW-CTRI research paper published in the Journal of Smoking Cessation. More than half the 36 patients in the study said the treatment, which combined varenicline (Chantix) plus the nicotine patch and …