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The UW Carbone Cancer Center is one of 22 NCI-designated cancer centers, and is collaborating with UW-CTRI to help cancer patients quit smoking. UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore spoke with Cancer Today Magazine about the project.

A team of UW-CTRI researchers led by Dr. Jessica Cook have completed enrollment of a Merit Award study at the Veterans Administration (VA), enrolling 122 Veterans. They also have submitted an application for a second merit-award grant for a study that would help 500 more Veterans quit smoking or cut down. For the current Merit …

For smokers who have smaller social networks, having even one supportive person can make all the difference in having a successful quit attempt, according to a new paper in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Researchers looked at smoking habits across several subgroups of those making a quit attempt. The Socially Disconnected subgroup—characterized by little social interaction, …

UW-CTRI partnered with 11 health care clinics at two health systems to invite patients to participate in the UW Partnership to Assist and Serve Smokers (UW-PASS) study to help them quit smoking or reduce their smoking, and found different clinics invited various patients at unequal rates. The goal was to use a standardized electronic health …

UW-CTRI Outreach Director Rob Adsit and Wisconsin Department of Health Services Tobacco Disparities Coordinator Karen Doster presented at the Florida Tobacco Control Program Health Systems Symposium March 21-22, 2018. Wisconsin is one of only a couple of states to have regional outreach specialists working across the state to help health-care systems integrate evidence-based tobacco dependence …

For Mustapha Kunjo, cigarettes used to be a way of life. “I used to always want to smoke cigarettes for most of my adult life, it was just something to do that I got hooked on,” said Kunjo, a Sun Prairie resident. However much he liked cigarettes, Kunjo knew the negative impact it had on …