UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Researchers utilizing machine learning technology have found that age, hypertension, insurance status, and hospital site are effectively predictive of COVID-19 mortality. In the Scientific Reports paper, researchers detail how they used machine learning to analyze electronic health records from nearly 150,000 patients across 21 healthcare systems. “The typical approach to investigating COVID is to select …
Jeremiah “Miah” Olson tells his students tobacco use should no longer be ignored. Olson is the department chair and an instructor at Fox Valley Technical College for pupils learning to counsel clients with substance use disorders. “Probably more than half of the people who get sober under our treatment still die because they continue to …
JUUL Labs has settled with several states after an investigation into its marketing and sales tactics to youth. Part of the settlement includes a $14.7 million allocation to Wisconsin, which will be spread out over a period of six to 10 years. The JUUL settlement dollars must be used to fund efforts to help people …
Colleagues from UW-CTRI celebrated the 31st year of the Center and honored four long-time employees who are retiring or switching roles. They honored Dr. Wendy Theobald, Marie Larson, Dr. Michael Fiore and Dr. Doug Jorenby for their years of contributions to helping people quit tobacco use. While Theobald, Larson, and Jorenby are fully retiring, UW-CTRI …
Findings from a new study published in The Wisconsin Medical Journal indicate that 80 percent of people who use e-cigarettes and call into tobacco quitlines are interested in quitting, making quitlines a key player in the little-understood process of helping people who use e-cigarettes quit. “In the traditional cigarette world,” said Dr. Brian Williams, the …
UW-CTRI Co-Founder and Director Dr. Michael Fiore represented the Center as a special guest at the White House event to celebrate the progress made thanks to the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative—a project to end cancer. Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Control Program Section Chief Vicki Huntington attended as a guest online. “The purpose of the …
UW-CTRI is currently recruiting for a Tobacco Care Specialist at UW Health.
Researchers have found that, as age and requirement for intubation increases in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, so too does overall mortality. The study, published in CHEST, drew from data collected by the COVID EHR Cohort at the University of Wisconsin Study (CEC-UW), looking for patients who were over 20, had tested positive for COVID-19, and …
A BREATHE 2 study participant started smoking 30 years ago due to peer pressure. “I wanted to look the coolest,” said the participant, who asked to remain anonymous. Since then, they had tried to quit five times. “The first couple times, I took it seriously but trusted too much in my confidence that I could …
The adult smoking rate in the United States has fallen to 11 percent, according to preliminary survey data released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). That’s down from 12.5 percent last year. Smoking rates ballooned after World War II in America, but have steadily declined since the first Surgeon General’s Report in 1964 (when …