Two free resources to help people quit smoking are available from the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI), part of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. These include the: …
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JAMA Paper: Using Varenicline (Chantix) at Standard Dosing Gets Same Results as Extended or Combo Use
A paper published today in JAMA shows that using varenicline for just three months with counseling was as effective to help people quit smoking as taking it longer—or in combination with the nicotine patch. “Previous …
Study: Offering Incentives to Pregnant Medicaid Members Works
What if the state of Wisconsin could help pregnant women quit smoking, help babies grow up smoke-free, and it would pay for itself? Researchers from UW-CTRI and First Breath discovered that paying pregnant Medicaid members …
2 New Wisconsin Programs Offered for Great American Smokeout
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 …
Quit Line Offers Text Enrollment
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 …
New Grant at Madison VA will Reach Out to Veterans Who Smoke and Offer Help
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 …
BREATHE 2: UW-CTRI Receives $14 Million Grant
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 …
CDC: Youth Nicotine Use Increased During 2017-2018
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 …
New England Journal of Medicine: Only Half of Cancer Patients Who Smoke Get Help to Quit; NCI Aims to Fix It
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 …
FDA Gives E-cigarette Companies 60 Days Notice
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 …