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More vaping was associated with less smoking and lower dependence on combustible tobacco products, according to a paper in the journal Addictive Behaviors by Dr. Anne Buu and co-authored by UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Megan Piper. What’s less clear is whether that would lead to total smoking cessation or continued dual use of …
The State of Wisconsin has the highest rate in the nation of doctors advising their patients who smoke to quit, according to research from the CDC published in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease. Dr. Teresa Wang and colleagues found that Wisconsin doctors advised patients who smoked to quit 81.7 percent of the time, best in …
UW-CTRI Scientist Dr. Bruce Christiansen co-authored the recently published paper, “Feasibility of a Systems Approach to Treat Commercial Tobacco Dependence within American Indian Health Clinics,” in the journal American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research. The pilot study, involving three American Indian health clinics in Minnesota, discovered that system changes significantly increased the rate …
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 ballooned across America and researchers have fresh findings to share. One of them was UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. …
The State of Wisconsin and UW-CTRI partnered to promote the Wisconsin Medicaid Cessation Benefit, which provides no-cost tobacco cessation counseling and pharmacotherapy services to help people with low incomes quit smoking, vaping, or chewing tobacco products. Covered medications include all legend drugs and over-the-counter products, with a written prescription from a prescriber. Medicaid does not …
Mary Tucker started smoking when she was 15, while her young brain was still growing, and kept lighting up for 50 years. But, late in 2018, she quit for good with the help of the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line. “I did this for me,” Tucker said proudly. “I promised myself for New Year’s I was …
About 4.9 million middle and high school students were current users (used in the past 30 days) of some type of tobacco product in 2018, up from 3.6 million in 2017. This increase—driven by a surge in e-cigarette use—erased past progress in reducing youth tobacco product use, according to a new Vital Signs report published …
Dr. Jim Cleary continues to serve as the head of the UW-CTRI Data and Statistical Management Committee, even after moving from Wisconsin and the UW Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center (UWCCC) to Indiana to become the director of the new Walther Supportive Oncology Program at Indiana University School of Medicine (IU). Dr. Cleary is an oncologist …
Use of modest financial incentives to encourage low-income smokers to engage with the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line is a cost-effective option, according to a paper written by Dr. Marlon Mundt and colleagues at UW-CTRI. Financial incentives for increasing smoking quit rates among Medicaid recipients is cost effective, according to the paper in the journal Value …
The following is an editorial commentary by David “Mac” Macmaster: The Wisconsin Nicotine Treatment Integration Project (WINTIP) was launched in 2008. WINTIP has been advocating tobacco integration in Wisconsin behavioral-health services for 10 years now. What has happened in this WINTIP decade? For one thing, our best information is that at least 70,000 Wisconsin residents …