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2019 Releases

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

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