How to Quit Smoking: The 5 Best Tips for 2023 New Year’s Resolutions
1. Get free coaching and medications. 2. Hang out with people who don’t smoke or vape. 3. Avoid alcohol. 4. Replace tobacco with healthier options. 5. Change your routine.
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1. Get free coaching and medications. 2. Hang out with people who don’t smoke or vape. 3. Avoid alcohol. 4. Replace tobacco with healthier options. 5. Change your routine.
Smoking commercial tobacco products is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Indigenous people living in Wisconsin and throughout the nation experience significant health and financial burden from ADRD, according to new research published by a University of Wisconsin–Madison team and collaborators. Researchers retrospectively analyzed healthcare utilization cost data from 2015 to …
Three UW-CTRI colleagues are among the top 100 tobacco-control researchers when it comes to paper citations in their careers. According to research by Dr. John Ioannidis and his team from Stanford University, out of more than 9 million authors of tobacco-related research, UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore ranked 20th most-cited. UW-CTRI Associate Director Dr. Tim …
One of the most difficult parts of quitting smoking is knowing what methods will work for any given patient; choosing between types of quit-aids and counseling can sometimes feel like a shot in the dark. However, researchers have found that they might be able to find the answers in genetic code. New findings suggest that …
Before Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson was the first Indigenous President of the Society for Research on Nicotine or Tobacco (SRNT), she was a little Diné girl in Teesto, Arizona—a small community on the Navajo Reservation. Her grandfather, a medicine man, would wake Patricia and her brother by pouring water on their heads. “He would yell, …
The Great American Smokeout was Thursday, November 17, but the resources are still available for Wisconsin residents to get free help to quit smoking or vaping tobacco from the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line! The Smokeout encourages people who smoke or vape to quit—even if it’s just for one day. Research shows that quitting for awhile …
Fewer and fewer people who are incarcerated are engaging with smoking cessation treatments, according to findings published in Preventive Medicine Reports; as this population becomes harder to reach, it becomes clear that current intervention strategies are failing to meet their needs. “Not many people look at the intersection of criminality and tobacco use,” said Kari …
Urge Industry to Stop Selling Cigarettes if they are Truly Committed to Reducing Harm The tobacco industry purports, in print advertising and TV interviews, to have changed—to be moving toward a future of harm reduction through e-cigarettes and vaping devices and away from combustibles (i.e., tobacco that is burnt, such as cigarettes). In fact, in …
UW-CTRI staff and collaborators presented five posters at the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine Research Day. Dr. Matthew Tattersall created three posters based on data from the Cardiac and LUng E-cig Smoking Study (CLUES), a collaboration between staff from UW Cardiology and UW-CTRI. Tattersall presented two of the posters. In one poster, he described …
UW-CTRI Director of Clinical Services Dr. Doug Jorenby will retire July 3, 2023, after 30 years of service at the Center. Jorenby has served as Director of Clinical Services for UW-CTRI since its inception in 1992. He has been a clinical psychologist and professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, where he …