Fewer and fewer people who are incarcerated are engaging with smoking cessation treatments, according to findings published in Preventive Medicine Reports; as this population becomes harder to reach, it becomes clear that current intervention strategies …
Jesse Kaye
Withdraw from Tobacco Study Completes Recruitment
UW-CTRI has achieved full participation for the Withdraw from Tobacco Study. The researchers seek to better understand withdrawal from tobacco so that healthcare providers can better help people quit smoking. The study, led by UW-CTRI …
UW-CTRI Colleagues Present in New Orleans
Presentations Karen Conner presented COVID-19 and Smoking EHR Data: 1 Million Patients and Counting. Twenty-one health systems, coordinated by UW, agreed to scan their electronic health record (EHR) data to identify all patients (inpatient, outpatient, etc.) who …
UW-CTRI Celebrates 30 Years
In April 2022, the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) celebrated 30 years of helping people quit tobacco use. Founded by Drs. Michael Fiore and Timothy Baker, UW-CTRI is nationally recognized for its ground-breaking tobacco …
UW-CTRI Helps People in the Justice System
Correctional Social Worker Kari Ives from the Chippewa Valley Correctional Treatment Facility—part of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC)—has been serving people who are incarcerated for years. As part of this service, for the past …
UW-CTRI’s ‘Withdraw from Tobacco Study’ Will Begin Soon
UW-CTRI in June will begin recruiting participants for the new Withdraw from Tobacco Study. Research Director Dr. Tim Baker is the principal investigator. The study, coordinated by UW-CTRI Assistant Scientist Dr. Jesse Kaye, will recruit …
UW-CTRI Staff Well Represented at First All-Virtual SRNT Annual Meeting
Dr. Megan Piper, UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research, took her place Sunday as SRNT President (release the SRNT-shirt canons!). Before that, she participated in the Presidential Symposium, specifically as part of the Racial Equity Task …
C3I Expands Consortium to Help Cancer Patients Quit Smoking
UW-CTRI staff and collaborators attended the virtual 2020 grantee meeting of the nationwide Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (C3I), part of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Cancer Moonshot Initiative, with the goal of helping cancer patients …
Vaping a Hot Topic at SRNT in San Francisco, Including in UW-CTRI Presentations
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 …