UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Tim Baker has been named the recipient of the 2016 Ove Ferno Award, honoring scientists who have made groundbreaking advances in clinical research. The award recognizes those who have made a significant impact on the understanding of nicotine addiction and treatments to help patients quit tobacco use. Baker will receive the award next …
Dr. Divya Sharma remembers seeing a patient whose mother had implored her to quit smoking from her death bed. The patient wanted desperately to quit but didn’t know how. Dr. Sharma hugged her and helped her get started, but wished she had more time and resources to offer. Now as the physician coordinator from Dean …
UW-CTRI launched its primary research study, Breaking Addiction to Tobacco for Health (BREATHE) January 20 at the Dean Health Care clinic in Janesville and the Aurora Health Care clinic at Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee. More than 100 referrals have already come in and health counselors are following up. Under the BREATHE project, any smoker who visits a …
UW-CTRI colleagues joined hundreds of researchers and healthcare professionals gathered at the Marriott hotel in downtown Philadelphia for the 2015 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco annual meeting. Researchers presented more than 300 pages of tobacco-related results at 23 symposia, 25 paper sessions, and four poster sessions. Here is a run-down of UW-CTRI presentations: …
After smoking for 50 years, Claudia Anderson decided it was time for a change. Her daughter, Nicole Nelson, had quit smoking, so she decided to try to follow suit. Anderson had quit cold turkey once before for two years, but it didn’t stick. This time she thinks it will. Like Nelson, Anderson called the Wisconsin …