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 veterans who are not ready to quit smoking. Led by UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Jessica Cook, the team will implement the …
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 Medicine and Public Health will compare the most effective treatments to help people quit smoking in real-world clinics, with a …
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 surge in e-cigarette use—erased past progress in reducing youth tobacco product use, according to a new Vital Signs report published …
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 new commentary today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Research shows quitting smoking after a cancer diagnosis is associated …