UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
ABC 27 News Reporter Emilee Fannon discusses Juul’s new age-locking device with UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Megan Piper. Piper said keeping nicotine out of the hands of youth is essential because the product changes and harms their brains, and we don’t know all of the long-term effects. To watch the video, click here.
UW-CTRI Regional Outreach Specialist Allison Gorrilla presented to behavioral health professionals at Bell Therapy in January on how and why to treat tobacco use, including the Bucket Approach. “Following the training, I had a good discussion with the director of nursing and a nurse practitioner,” Gorrilla said. “They are very interested in doing more and talked …
Helping teens quit smoking is daunting, but more research could reveal innovative ways to help, according to an editorial in JAMA Pediatrics by UW-CTRI Associate Research Director Dr. Megan Piper, Dr. Robin Mermelstein of the University of Illinois-Chicago, and UW-CTRI Director of Research Dr. Timothy Baker. The editorial was a response to the JAMA Pediatrics …
Amy Skora knows a lot about how to help people quit smoking, but it would take her quite some time to individually drive to visit with every smoker living in public housing in America. (Think of the tolls and rest stops, oy!) What the UW-CTRI Outreach Specialist could and did do, though, was to serve …
Installment four of our series on BREATHE 2 collaborators Dr. Dan Bolt remembers the time, early in his career at UW, when he was teaching statistics and UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Tim Baker sat in on his class. Did Baker pass? Bolt quipped: Baker passed, all right… on showing up to his class again! But it …