UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
To ensure that cancer patients get equitable, quality healthcare that includes tobacco cessation treatment, the Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (C3I) funded 22 Cancer Centers in 2017; by June 2019, those Centers were not only reaching a higher percentage of people who smoke (nearly 26%) but also reducing disparities. Reach among all racial/ethnic groups increased significantly, …
Drs. Danielle McCarthy, Megan Piper and Tim Baker are now working collaboratively as UW-CTRI Research Directors, effective this month. McCarthy and Piper have different areas of expertise with some overlap, so they will continue to take advantage of those strengths and interests while making big decisions collaboratively with Baker. “This is a very good step …
February is Black History Month, and UW-CTRI is celebrating the work of The Center for Black Health & Equity, in particular the leadership of Executive Director Delmonte Jefferson. Tobacco companies have targeted African American communities for decades, and African Americans carry the highest burden of death for many of the country’s most fatal diseases. Approximately …
Long-time UW-CTRI collaborator Dr. Pat McBride has written and published a book with his twin brother Dennis called The Luckiest Boy In the World. It’s about Dr. McBride’s time as a physician, but also about how, as a boy, he got to work for the Green Bay Packers, Milwaukee Brewers and Milwaukee Bucks. While people …
Dr. Kristin Berg is altering her schedule in 2022 so she’ll spend 100 percent of her time in clinic as a physician at UW Health, wrapping up seven years of spending part of her work week with UW-CTRI. “Kristin has made many valuable contributions to the Center,” said UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore. “She has …
Beacon House is a Victorian home and clinic in Fond du Lac that provides a transitional living experience for women on a journey from addiction to recovery—and that now includes freedom from tobacco addiction. “We provide services to help the woman as a whole,” says Wendy Compton, Development Coordinator for the Beacon House, “from spirituality to …
Overall cancer death rates continue to decline in men and women for all racial and ethnic groups in the United States, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer. From 2003 to 2018, under the leadership of Dr. Bob Croyle as Director of the Division of Cancer Control and …
Researchers tested a new way to bring smoking cessation to smokers with mood disorders—a group with high smoking rates but low success with traditional quitting methods. The study, published in Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, was centered around using smartphones for mindfulness exercises—in combination with “contingency management,” or rewards for demonstrated improvement—during a quit attempt, and …
The state of Wisconsin Department of Health Services is working to incorporate tobacco treatment into the training of peer specialists as they work to become certified. Specifically, it is using a report created by UW-CTRI in collaboration with two certified peer specialists. The report, called Roles for Certified Peer Specialists to Support Peers as they …
Two free resources to help people quit smoking are available from the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI), part of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. These include the: UW-CTRI has served approximately 300,000 patients via research studies and outreach programs and led the development of the US Public …