UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
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 …
UW-CTRI colleagues presented their research findings at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) in San Antonio, Texas. See what they presented below. Researcher Dr. Adrienne Johnson co-chaired a pre-conference session called Tobacco Treatments that Work for Priority Populations. During that pre-conference, Research Director Dr. Danielle McCarthy presented preliminary results …
The UW Department of Medicine has promoted UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Jessica Cook to full professor with tenure. “This promotion reflects her incredible scholarship and accomplishments,” said UW-CTRI Founder and Director Dr. Michael Fiore. Cook is a Psychologist Investigator at the William S. Middleton Memorial VA, where she directs the Veterans Tobacco Research Group, co-directs the …
UW-CTRI Assistant Professor Dr. Brian Williams has secured an internal grant from the UW Department of Pediatrics to support parents who smoke while their children are in the hospital. “Hospitalization is a stressful time,” said Williams, a researcher and hospitalist trained in both internal medicine and pediatrics. “Nicotine addiction compounds that stress.” It’s not uncommon, …