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 …
The University of Wisconsin published the ninth-most smoking cessation-related publications in the world since 2002, according to a paper in Preventive Medicine Reports. The authors, led by Yingxin Xu of China Medical University, reviewed 8797 publications worldwide on smoking cessation between 2002 and 2021. They reported the number of publications on smoking cessation increased from …