UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
UW-CTRI staff and collaborators in September attended the fall 2019 grantee meeting of the nationwide Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (C3I) at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City. They discussed what they’ve learned two years into the project to help oncology patients quit tobacco use. C3I is part of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Cancer Moonshot …
Former US Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. Howard Koh and current Wisconsin Secretary Designate of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services Andrea Palm on September 23 visited the UW campus to discuss five pertinent health issues, including tobacco use. They led a meeting of about 50 distinguished guests from the public health community to discuss current …
UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Bruce Christiansen has debuted his online Bucket Approach training to help patients with serious or significant mental illness to quit smoking, offered with free continuing education credits. The project has also been extended for a second year to ensure it is widely adopted throughout Wisconsin. The Bucket Approach is designed to help …
Dual use of cigarettes and e-cigarettes may not be sustainable, according to a recent UW-CTRI study, as dual users were much more likely to quit vaping than quit smoking. The study, published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research, examined adults who smoked either combustible cigarettes only, or both e-cigarettes and combustible cigarettes. Participants had no interest …
Those with a high ability to tolerate distress may be more likely to quit smoking and remain smoke-free a year later, according to a UW-CTRI paper published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research. Researchers looked at distress tolerance (a measure of how much an individual can withstand difficult situations and emotions) as well as anxiety sensitivity …
Two online training courses created by UW-CTRI are among the most popular at UW among healthcare providers. The UW-CTRI “Tobacco 101” training is the second-most popular training on the UW Interprofessional Continuing Education (CE) Partnership platform. The most popular course on the platform is a course on opioids required for all clinicians, with 978 students. …
UW-CTRI staff and partners presented their findings from tobacco research and outreach projects a total of nine times at the 2019 National Conference on Tobacco or Health in Minneapolis August 27-29. The following is a summary of the four presentations and five posters. Presentations: 1. UW-CTRI Outreach Director Rob Adsit discussed quality measures in healthcare, …
Marilyn Haugen was a smoker when her daughter, Natalie, matriculated into medical school. Natalie asked her mom if she would quit smoking by the time she earned her white doctor’s coat. Marilyn wanted to do so for her daughter. “If you want to see people go nuts,” Marilyn Haugen said, “walk into a doctor’s office …
UW-CTRI Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Adrienne Johnson presented her research on tobacco use at the 2019 Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Los Angeles last week. “There’s a benefit to quitting (smoking) at any age, even a later age,” Johnson said. She and her colleagues found that cognitively healthy current smokers had increased rates of dementia, nursing home …
Before Dr. Chinou Vang began his residency in June at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, he used the skills he learned from the Tobacco Dependence Treatment Course at the University of Wisconsin, taught by UW-CTRI staff, to help his relative try to quit smoking. That loved one “is progressing slowly but surely,” Vang said. …