2016 Articles

UW-CTRI researcher Dr. Jess Cook has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure. The appointment will be effective July 1. Cook first joined UW-CTRI in 2008 as an assistant professor. She is also a clinical …

Intensive counseling with smokers that have psychiatric histories may not lead to higher abstinence rates, according to a new paper by UW-CTRI researchers. Whereas the original outcome paper, published in Addiction, supports the combined use …

Back in 2013, former UW-CTRI Clinic Manager Sophie Rodrigues-Pereira interviewed participant Jeffrey Grise as part of the Dual Use Study. Vaping electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) didn’t affect the level of smoking or carbon monoxide levels in …

Lois Smith (above center, with her quit coaches), a former smoker from Rio, quit smoking years ago with the help of the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line. “I thought the Quit Line was really beneficial,” she …

  UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Megan Piper is part of a collaborative research team that received a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) award from the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. This is part …

A common fear of many smokers who want to quit is that they will lose many people in their social network―family, friends or co-workers―when they quit smoking. In fact, the opposite is true, according to …

New research shows that women Veterans do poorly with tobacco cessation clinics, according to a paper published in Military Medicine. While 54 percent of women Veterans enrolled in a tobacco-cessation clinic made a quit attempt, only 8 …

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