UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Sometimes, more isn’t better. That was the case for Quitting Using Intensive Treatments Study (QUITS) participants who smoked. On average, 12 weeks of just varenicline medication plus coaching on how to address tobacco use was the most cost-effective treatment. UW-CTRI researchers published the results in JAMA Network Open. QUITS compared standard varenicline alone treatment for 12 …
Youth who vape were more addicted in 2022 than they were in 2017, according to a study published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research. The study tracked 23,145 teenagers in the USA, Canada and England online for five years. Researchers, led by Dr. David Hammond of the University of Waterloo in Canada, used four dependence indicators …
The US Veterans Administration (VA) selected UW-CTRI Director of Veterans Research Dr. Jessica Cook as one of 10 tobacco experts to serve on a workgroup that will help develop the Clinical Practice Guideline for Tobacco Cessation for veterans. The workgroup will advise the VA and Department of Defense (DoD) Evidence Based Practice Work Group (EBPWG) …
UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Adrienne Johnson (left at podium) spoke last night at an event hosted by the Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network at the Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee. With Johnson (from left) are artist Tracy Brown, Pastor Teresa Thomas-Boyd, and Edgar Mendez. It was the opening of the Same Game, Different Smoker exhibit …
For people who both smoke and vape, there will be new paths to help them address their relationship with nicotine. The Avenues Study will begin soon, thanks to a $4.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Megan Piper and UW-CTRI Associate Director Dr. Tim Baker will lead the study. Recruitment …
Melissa started smoking when she was 11 years old. She would sneak Salems from her grandma’s purse and meet her friends at the park. “We would smoke and think we looked like glamour queens,” Melissa said. It wasn’t until her mid-20s when she smoked regularly. “It started socially, at parties, and then got more and …
More than 1.4 million adolescents and 4.7 million young adults in the United States report vaping, according to FDA and CDC’s National Youth Tobacco Survey. The majority never smoked. To help them quit, UW-CTRI Researcher and UW Health Pediatric and Internal Medicine Hospitalist Dr. Brian Williams has garnered a new $967,000 5-year K08 grant from …
UW-CTRI colleagues presented (or were co-authors on) 12 unique sets of findings at the upcoming Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 2024 Annual Conference March 20-23 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Here’s a rundown of UW-CTRI involvement. Preconference Workshops 1. Drs. Adrienne Johnson, Hasmeena Kathuria, and Brian Williams, preconference workshop. Tobacco Treatments Across the Ages. This …
Karen Conner will be the next UW-CTRI Outreach Director, taking over for Rob Adsit, who is retiring. She will begin on March 16 in an interim role while Adsit is on leave and will officially become the Outreach Director on July 1 when Adsit’s retirement is official. “I am so pleased that our own Karen …
It may be that a key to helping people avoid their cigarettes is using a product that mimics the hand-mouth experience of traditional cigarettes—regardless of the level of nicotine it delivers. UW-CTRI researchers tested cigarettes with very low nicotine (VLNCs) as well as vaping devices and found that both were solid behavioral substitutes for cigarettes, …