UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
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 …
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 million middle and high school students vape, according to the FDA. JUUL Labs alone is worth $15 billion and has …
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 University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI). All participants get: Some participants also get: Participants will receive …
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 to a new paper in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Medicaid smokers in a research study who received up …
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?
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore is a recipient of the 2016 Alfred Ochsner Award for his contributions to helping people quit tobacco use and live longer, healthier lives. Dr. Ramaswamy Govindan also received the award, which comes with a medal and plaque.The Ochsner Award is named in honor of Doctor Alton Ochsner, co-founder of the Ochsner Clinic …
But Will Future Administrations Address the High Death Toll from Smoking? 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? Since Obama took office in …