UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
UW-CTRI researchers used an electronic device to track the use of nicotine gum by participants in the UW-Partnership to Assist and Serve Smokers (UW-PASS) Study (who also all received nicotine patches), and found that people who had a slip and smoked (lapsed) while trying to quit used less gum right before and after that first …
UW-CTRI Outreach Director Rob Adsit recently presented during a national online conference for all state tobacco prevention and control programs across America. He delivered “Best Practices and Emerging Opportunities for Applying a Comprehensive Approach to Cessation” with Joyce Swetlick, Tobacco Cessation Director for the North Carolina State Health Department. They described the three major cessation goals for state …
UW-CTRI Director of Research Dr. Tim Baker recently served as the discussant for an international half-day webinar on COVID-19 and smoking featuring esteemed researchers from the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. Presenters included Dr. Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin (Yale), Dr. Jonathan Samet (Colorado), Dr. Neal Benowitz (UC-San Francisco), Dr. Olga Perski (London), Dr. Geoffrey Fong …
UW-CTRI has reopened its research studies with COVID-19 safeguards in place, including mask requirements, sanitizing rooms, isolation of patient rooms, and hand sanitizer. The study known as CLUES has restarted and the Options Study has already recruited participants this month. CLUES is studying how vaping, juuling, and smoking affect health. In the case of Options, people in …