UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
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 …
NBC 15 News spoke to UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Megan Piper regarding how vaping can affect teens.
On April 8, 2019, Illinois became the eighth state in the nation to raise the legal purchase age for tobacco products to 21. It is the first state in the Midwest to implement Tobacco 21. WKOW Channel 27 News interviewed UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore about the public health impact of the new law in …
UW-CTRI Director of Clinical Services Dr. Doug Jorenby spoke at the longest continuously running cancer conference in America, the Southeastern Wisconsin Cancer Conference, about how providers can help their patients end tobacco use. At the Italian Community Center in downtown Milwaukee, Jorenby discussed a recent British study that compared vaping to nicotine-replacement medications as a …
UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Jessica Cook (left) presented on innovative approaches to treating smokers who are unwilling to quit during the UW Department of Medicine Grand Rounds March 22 at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison. Cook told clinicians that, while Wisconsin leads the nation in advising patients to quit smoking, there is …
More vaping was associated with less smoking and lower dependence on combustible tobacco products, according to a paper in the journal Addictive Behaviors by Dr. Anne Buu and co-authored by UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Megan Piper. What’s less clear is whether that would lead to total smoking cessation or continued dual use of …
The State of Wisconsin has the highest rate in the nation of doctors advising their patients who smoke to quit, according to research from the CDC published in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease. Dr. Teresa Wang and colleagues found that Wisconsin doctors advised patients who smoked to quit 81.7 percent of the time, best in …