How to Quit Smoking: The 5 Best Tips for 2023 New Year’s Resolutions
1. Get free coaching and medications. 2. Hang out with people who don’t smoke or vape. 3. Avoid alcohol. 4. Replace tobacco with healthier options. 5. Change your routine.
1. Get free coaching and medications. 2. Hang out with people who don’t smoke or vape. 3. Avoid alcohol. 4. Replace tobacco with healthier options. 5. Change your routine.
Smoking commercial tobacco products is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Indigenous people living in Wisconsin and throughout the nation experience significant health and financial burden from ADRD, according to new research published by a University of Wisconsin–Madison team and collaborators. Researchers retrospectively analyzed healthcare utilization cost data from 2015 to …
The Great American Smokeout was Thursday, November 17, but the resources are still available for Wisconsin residents to get free help to quit smoking or vaping tobacco from the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line! The Smokeout encourages people who smoke or vape to quit—even if it’s just for one day. Research shows that quitting for awhile …
Urge Industry to Stop Selling Cigarettes if they are Truly Committed to Reducing Harm The tobacco industry purports, in print advertising and TV interviews, to have changed—to be moving toward a future of harm reduction through e-cigarettes and vaping devices and away from combustibles (i.e., tobacco that is burnt, such as cigarettes). In fact, in …
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore has received a seven-year grant worth $6.5 million to help UW-CTRI identify and disseminate effective, innovative ways to help cancer patients quit smoking. Specifically, UW-CTRI researchers, led by Principal Investigator Fiore, will further evaluate innovative approaches to helping cancer patients who smoke to quit. This will build on a national initiative …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MADISON — Rates of death, intubation, and admission to intensive care improved markedly during the first 20 months of the pandemic among adults hospitalized with COVID-19, according to a nationwide study led by the University of Wisconsin. Gains varied by subpopulation, according to the paper published in PLOS ONE. These data provide …
Findings from Second-Largest COVID Study in US Among current smokers hospitalized with COVID-19, prescriptions for nicotine patches, lozenges, or gum were associated with reduced mortality. “Smoking remains the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the nation,” said co-author Dr. Michael Fiore of the University of Wisconsin, “even during the pandemic. If you smoke, …
Vaccination Lowers Risk – Findings from Second-Largest COVID Study in US A current cancer diagnosis posed a significant risk for severe outcomes (ICU admission and death) over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the second-largest study of COVID-19 patients in the United States, funded by the National Cancer Institute. Prior COVID-19 …
Wisconsin Has Worst Smoking Disparity Between Blacks and Whites in Nation African Americans have been targeted for decades by tobacco companies and have suffered especially high health and economic burdens from smoking. However, according to an invited JAMA editorial by researchers from the Universities of Wisconsin and Kentucky, meaningful, recent progress has been made that …