New technology can improve the ways in which people who smoke get connected with quitting services; one of the most promising developments has been e-referrals, an electronic referral system that uses secure electronic health records …
Quitlines: 10 Million Calls and Counting
Since 2004, the National Network of Tobacco Cessation Quitlines has received more than 10 million calls, reaching half a million people who smoke per year and, according to a new paper in the American Journal …
BREATHE 2 Advisor Dr. Jennifer McClure Helps Reach More People Who Smoke
Dr. Jennifer McClure has done extensive work trying to reach more people who smoke and help them stop smoking, no matter their readiness to quit. Much of this work has explored how best to leverage …
Study Finds Extreme Smoking Rates Among Rural Drug Users
A new study, conducted by a team of researchers from UW-CTRI and published in JAMA Open Network, has found that rural-dwelling people who inject drugs have a smoking rate of more than 90%, higher than …
Fiore Named Recipient of Hilldale Award
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore has been named the recipient of the 2021 Hilldale Award for Biological Sciences. UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank will officially present the award to Fiore and three other Hilldale Award recipients …
Piper Promoted to Professor
The UW School of Medicine and Public Health Tenure Track Promotion Committee voted unanimously to approve UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Megan Piper for promotion to Full Professor effective July 1. While Piper already had …
Med Students Learn Online about Tobacco Treatment
Fourth-year UW medical students learned about tobacco treatment when they recently completed a public-health elective class led by UW-CTRI Researchers Drs. Megan Piper and Jessica Cook. In past years, the students would get to shadow UW-CTRI …
Regional Outreach Specialists Fulfill Key Role for the BREATHE 2 Study
UW-CTRI Regional Outreach Specialist Allison Gorrilla and UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore recently presented to healthcare providers at Advocate Aurora Health in Milwaukee. At the presentation, Fiore discussed BREATHE 2 study components and the medical residents’ …
UW-CTRI Staff Well Represented at First All-Virtual SRNT Annual Meeting
Dr. Megan Piper, UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research, took her place Sunday as SRNT President (release the SRNT-shirt canons!). Before that, she participated in the Presidential Symposium, specifically as part of the Racial Equity Task …
Quit Line Caller Pays It Forward
When Carolyn Slater started smoking, she didn’t think much of it. Thirty-eight years later, she didn’t think she would ever be able to quit. “I started smoking before there were warning labels or anybody took …