UW-CTRI Staff Share Findings in New Orleans
UW-CTRI colleagues presented at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2025 Annual Conference in New Orleans. Here’s a rundown of UW-CTRI participation. Symposia 1. Dr. Adrienne Johnson, co-chair.Pre-Conference Workshop #3: Moving the Needle …
March 26, 2025When Smokers Relapse, Should They Try Again Right Away?
If at first someone can’t succeed at quitting smoking, they should not only try, try again—but immediately, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin published in the journal Addiction. Their doctors shouldn’t be …
January 29, 2024UW Researchers Present Findings at SRNT Conference in Baltimore
Researchers representing UW-CTRI and the Center Cessation Initiative (C3I) presented findings at the Annual Conference of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) in Baltimore April 14-18. Here is a summary: UW-CTRI Co-Research Director …
April 8, 2022Med 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 …
March 3, 2021UW-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 …
March 3, 2021Dr. Baker’s Novel Treatment Can Improve Craving and Anhedonia
A novel treatment can suppress significant withdrawal symptoms more effectively than the usual care, according to a UW-CTRI paper published in the journal Addiction. This innovative approach, developed by UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Tim …
October 29, 2020Decreasing Nicotine Gum Use May Lead to Lapsing Back to Smoking
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 …
September 11, 2020Before Pandemic, UW-CTRI Shared Findings in New Orleans
As news of COVID-19 was just starting to break, some UW-CTRI staff were in New Orleans to present their research on tobacco use at the annual conference of the Society for Research on Nicotine & …
April 10, 2020Med Students Learn from UW-CTRI How to Help Patients Quit Smoking
Five UW medical students recently finished their public-health elective class on tobacco treatment led by UW-CTRI Researchers Drs. Jessica Cook and Megan Piper. The course includes an overview of tobacco treatment and electronic medical records by UW-CTRI Director …
March 6, 2020Ability to Tolerate Distress Associated with Smoking Abstinence
Those with a high ability to tolerate distress may be more likely to quit smoking and remain smoke-free a year later, according to a UW-CTRI paper published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research. Researchers looked at …
September 20, 2019UW-CTRI Course Empowers Med Student to Help Relative, Patients Try to Quit Smoking
Before Dr. Chinou Vang began his residency in June at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, he used the skills he learned from the Tobacco Dependence Treatment Course at the University of Wisconsin, taught by …
August 9, 2019UW-CTRI Researchers Present Posters at Research Day, Win Awards
Six researchers from UW-CTRI presented their work last month at the 2019 UW Department of Medicine Research Day at the Health Sciences Learning Center in Madison, and two of them won awards for it. Dr. Nayoung …
July 16, 2019Vaping a Hot Topic at SRNT in San Francisco, Including in UW-CTRI Presentations
Vaping was a hot topic at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine or Tobacco (SRNT) held at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco, as use of vaping products have …
March 6, 2019UW-CTRI Researchers to Present at SRNT Conference in San Francisco
UW-CTRI staff will present 17 times at SRNT 2019 in San Francisco, via seven presentations and 10 research posters. Pre-conference Workshop An Update to the Basics: Current Approaches for Measuring and Understanding Key Individual Differences …
January 3, 2019More Gum + Patches Meant Better Chances
According to research by Dr. Tanya Schlam and colleagues at UW-CTRI, smokers who used more nicotine gum (up to 5 pieces a day) with nicotine patches tended to have higher quit rates: 59% had quit smoking at 6 …
July 17, 2018UW-CTRI Staff Share Findings at UW Department of Medicine Research Day
UW-CTRI staff and collaborators presented research findings at the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine (DOM) Research Day June 15 at the Health Sciences Learning Center on the UW campus in Madison. This included an …
July 5, 2018UW-CTRI Presents Research at SRNT Baltimore
UW-CTRI researchers presented 14 times at the 2018 annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) at the Baltimore Hilton February 21-24. In addition to six podium presentations, there will be …
March 1, 2018Smokers with Psychiatric Diagnoses Benefitted More from 16 Weeks of Medication than Those Without Such Diagnoses
It turns out that 16 weeks of quit-smoking medications improves quit rates, compared to 8 weeks of medications, for smokers with a history of psychiatric diagnoses, but not for those without such diagnoses in a recent UW-CTRI …
July 1, 2016UW-CTRI Staff Present 11 Times at SRNT Conference in Chicago
UW-CTRI staff presented four speeches and seven posters at the 2016 annual conference of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in downtown Chicago. The closest thing to …
April 2, 2016UW-CTRI Staff Set to Present at SRNT Chicago
The annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) is the first week of March in Chicago at the Sheraton Hotel and several UW-CTRI researchers are set to present: Thursday UW-CTRI Research …
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