UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
According to British Medical Journal, research shows people addicted to opioids also smoke cigarettes at a rate of 84-98%. The new grant funding opportunity from the State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) recognizes this relationship between tobacco and opiate use. DHS will be funding opioid and methamphetamine treatment centers across this state under …
UW-CTRI researchers will make 10 presentations when the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco gathers for its 24th SRNT Annual Meeting February 21-24 in Baltimore. UW-CTRI staff will deliver six podium presentations and offer four additional posters at the conference set to happen at the Baltimore Hilton, which overlooks the professional baseball field Oriole Park …
UW Hospital will soon implement an Electronic Health Record (EHR)-based tobacco treatment intervention designed to help patients use their hospital stay as an opportunity to quit smoking. It’s the first hospital in Wisconsin to implement this fully EHR-based workflow, which meets Joint Commission Tobacco Treatment Measures and includes an electronic referral to the Wisconsin Tobacco …
Low-income smokers who received modest payments to quit smoking not only were 57% more likely to quit—but the cost per quitter turned out to be less than for those who didn’t receive those incentives. According to a new paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Medicaid smokers in a research study who received up …
UW Assistant Professor Dr. Marlon Mundt, health economist from the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, is collaborating with UW-CTRI to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of financial incentives for Medicaid smokers to take Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line calls. He has penned a new paper ready for submission on Striving to Quit for Medicaid recipients. “The …
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore recorded a video on how to treat tobacco use, seen by more than 100 healthcare providers in Italy. The video was part of a conference in Venice.
Katherine Coates is the new Tobacco Cessation Outreach Specialist working full time at Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin (GHC), and training at UW-CTRI for her new job. Once at GHC, she’ll handle outreach via telephone to motivate patients and help them quit smoking, as part of a population health study funded by the …
Though the mental battle to not smoke can be exhausting for smokers, combination nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) helps reduce this cessation fatigue and helps smokers feel like they can be successful in quitting, according to a new paper in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. The paper, co-authored by UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Megan Piper, …
By day, UW-CTRI Health Counselor T.Jay Christenson handles patient medical records while helping people quit smoking; by night, his rock band is on a record label called Dusty Medical Records. Don’t tell the IRB. The band, Space Raft, is working on its third full album, due out later this year, riding the gravitational pull of …
For some Wisconsin patients, seeing their doctor enables them to sign up for text messages to help them quit smoking, while automatically keeping their doctor in the loop. That’s because UW-CTRI is partnering with Epic Systems, the world’s leader in electronic health records (EHR) software, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to integrate SmokeFreeTXT, the …