CNN Quotes Dr. Fiore on Tobacco Control TV Ads
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UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
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Welcome to the site dedicated to helping providers with behavioral health patients to treat tobacco use. Here, you’ll find everything you’ll need to help your behavioral patients quit smoking, chewing, or vaping tobacco. It’s all part of the Wisconsin Nicotine Treatment Integration Project (WiNTiP). “I challenge all deliveries of care: CSPs, residential, private psychotherapy, and those programs …
A group of experts from around the country met at Epic Systems headquarters in Verona, Wisconsin last week to discuss plans to better design electronic health records (EHR) technology to help healthcare professionals help their patients quit smoking. UW-CTRI is partnering with Epic, the world’s largest EHR vendor, to incorporate this new tobacco-treatment system into …
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore and Dr. Robin Mermelstein of the University of Illinois at Chicago last week presented tobacco control research priorities to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA) on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. For the last year, Drs. Fiore and Mermelstein have …
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Dr. Doug Jorenby began working on tobacco research before UW-CTRI became an official center in 1992, yet he swears he’s not the real Dr. Who. Jorenby began working with the group that would become UW-CTRI, then known as TRIP, or the Tobacco Research and Intervention Program, 25 years ago. Back in 1990, Dr. Jorenby was a …
Wisconsin Public Radio interviewed UW-CTRI Director of Clinical Services Dr. Doug Jorenby about youth vaping. To see Dr. Jorenby’s research on people who both smoke and vape, click here.
A new report from the U.S. Surgeon General raises public health concerns about e-cigarette use among U.S. youth and young adults. The report comes amid alarming rates of youth and young adult use of e-cigarettes; in 2015, about 1 in 6 high school students used an e-cigarette in the past month. The report finds that, while nicotine …
The Wisconsin Smokers’ Health Study 2 (WSHS 2) was designed to help patients quit smoking and, from it, UW-CTRI researchers have gathered useful information. The five-year, $10 million study is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.One goal was to learn if some of the artery damage caused by smoking could be undone. To answer …
Five UW-CTRI staff members in March will present research findings at the 2017 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) Annual Meeting in Florence, Italy.UW-CTRI Associate Research Director Dr. Megan Piper will be the discussant for a symposium about a technique to analyze data gathered from mobile devices to see how use of tobacco products …