Helping teens quit smoking is daunting, but more research could reveal innovative ways to help, according to an editorial in JAMA Pediatrics by UW-CTRI Associate Research Director Dr. Megan Piper, Dr. Robin Mermelstein of the …
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UW-CTRI’s Amy Skora Serves on Faculty for National Initiative to Help HUD Residents
Amy Skora knows a lot about how to help people quit smoking, but it would take her quite some time to individually drive to visit with every smoker living in public housing in America. (Think …
UW-CTRI Colleagues Present at National Conference in Minneapolis
UW-CTRI staff and partners presented their findings from tobacco research and outreach projects a total of nine times at the 2019 National Conference on Tobacco or Health in Minneapolis August 27-29. The following is a …
New App Designed to Help Doctors and Patients Discuss Quit-Smoking Resources
UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Megan Piper and UW-CTRI Outreach Specialist Amy Skora are developing a new app called Learn, Connect, and Quit (LCQ) to increase conversations between patients who smoke and their healthcare providers …
Wisconsin Leads Nation in Doctor Interventions to Help Patients Quit Smoking
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 …
Coalitions, WiNTiP, UW-CTRI Partner to Reach Behavioral Health Providers Across Wisconsin
UW-CTRI regional outreach specialists and staff from the Wisconsin Nicotine Treatment Integration Project (WiNTiP) are partnering with tobacco prevention and control coalitions throughout Wisconsin to train behavioral health providers on how to help their patients …
UW-CTRI Outreach Team Takes Quit Line eReferral to Health Systems
UW-CTRI’s four regional outreach specialists are working to expand the number of health-care systems across the state that refer patients via electronic health records (EHR) to the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line. This builds on several partnerships …
National Cancer Centers Meet in Wisconsin, Help Patients Quit Smoking
The nationwide Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (C3I), part of the NCI Cancer Moonshot Initiative, held a grantee meeting at the Pyle Center in Madison, Wisconsin. Representatives from 42 NCI cancer centers (the grantees) attended, along with …
Inpatient Tobacco-Cessation Program About to Begin at UW Hospital
UW Associate Professor and Division Head, Hospital Medicine Dr. Ann Sheehy (top right) spoke during the annual spring UW-CTRI staff meeting about a promising new tobacco-treatment protocol. Sheehy said UW Hospital will soon implement an Electronic …
UW-CTRI Presents Research at SRNT Baltimore
UW-CTRI researchers presented 14 times at the 2018 annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) at the Baltimore Hilton February 21-24. In addition to six podium presentations, there will be …