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2 New Wisconsin Programs Offered for Great American Smokeout

Posted on November 19, 2020

The Great American Smokeout is Thursday, November 17 and the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line announces two new programs to help people break their addiction to smoking, vaping, or chewing tobacco. Text2Quit for Young Adults: The …

Posted in 2020 Releases

Quit Line Offers Text Enrollment

Posted on August 6, 2020

For the first time, Wisconsin tobacco users can send a quick text to sign up for free services from the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line. People who want to quit smoking, vaping, or chewing nicotine can …

Posted in 2020 Articles, 2020 Releases, Uncategorized

New Grant at Madison VA will Reach Out to Veterans Who Smoke and Offer Help

Posted on December 4, 2019

The US Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a new $1 million grant to the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital in Madison to be the first ever to evaluate a chronic-care system designed to help …

Posted in 2019 Releases

BREATHE 2: UW-CTRI Receives $14 Million Grant

Posted on November 19, 2019

UW-CTRI Receives $14M Grant from National Cancer Institute to Partner with Health Systems, Match Quit-Smoking Treatments to Individual Patients: UW-CTRI’s Fifth Straight Center Grant MADISON—In a first, researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of …

Posted in 2019 Releases

CDC: Youth Nicotine Use Increased During 2017-2018

Posted on February 11, 2019

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 …

Posted in 2019 Releases

New England Journal of Medicine: Only Half of Cancer Patients Who Smoke Get Help to Quit; NCI Aims to Fix It

Posted on January 2, 2019

While many smokers make New Year’s resolutions to quit smoking, only about half of cancer patients who smoke are offered help to quit by their oncology teams. That’s a lost opportunity, wrote experts in a …

Posted in 2019 Releases

FDA Gives E-cigarette Companies 60 Days Notice

Posted on September 13, 2018

The FDA announced vaping companies have 60 days to demonstrate they can keep their devices out of the hands of children or the government will consider removing their products from the market. More than 2 …

Posted in 2018 Releases

UW Receives $7 Million Grant to Test New Medication Combination to Help Smokers Quit

Posted on January 2, 2018

MILWAUKEE—People in the Milwaukee and Madison areas who want to quit smoking can get free medication and coaching starting today, thanks to a $7 million 4-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to the …

Posted in 2018 Releases

Small Financial Incentives Reap Big Rewards to Help People Quit Smoking

Posted on November 8, 2017

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 …

Posted in 2017 Releases

NEJM: Smoking Rate Decreased Markedly During Obama’s Tenure

Posted on June 20, 2017

The seven years of the Obama Administration has been associated with an accelerated rate of decline in smoking rates, according to a paper published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. But, will future Administrations keep it going?

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