UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
For some Wisconsin patients, seeing their doctor enables them to sign up for text messages to help them quit smoking, while automatically keeping their doctor in the loop. That’s because UW-CTRI is partnering with Epic Systems, the world’s leader in electronic health records (EHR) software, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to integrate SmokeFreeTXT, the …
Dr. Will Bringgold, a second-year resident with the UW Internal Medicine Department, is working with UW-CTRI Drs. Kristin Berg, Stevens Smith, and other colleagues to analyze baseline pulmonary data from the Exhale Study. The Exhale Study, led by principal investigators Drs. Megan Piper and Doug Jorenby and study manager Kate Kobinsky, wrapped up recruitment recently, …
UW-CTRI Outreach Specialist Amy Skora spoke about smoking, vaping, and the latest treatments to help patients quit at the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin annual meeting Sept. 16 at the Radisson Hotel in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The Society has about 600 members. Her talk was a break-out session titled, “Cold Turkey, E-cigarettes, Meds and More: Developing …
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore teamed with other experts, led by Dr. Martin Raw, to create a plan of action to help countries implement tobacco-control strategies, to be published in the journal Addiction. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that only a few countries across the globe have adequate access to health care interventions to …
UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank recently bestowed the honor of emeritus status on Dr. McBride, recognizing his distinguished career with the Department of Medicine’s cardiovascular medicine section. “I’m really looking forward to helping further the mission of UW-CTRI and the health of the state of Wisconsin and beyond, which was always the focus of my career,” …
UW-CTRI Outreach Director Rob Adsit is serving on the faculty this week in Atlanta for the CDC’s 2017 Tobacco Control Action-Planning Academy. Adsit is one of three instructors teaching the Comprehensive Cessation Interventions Knowledge Building Course, which includes health-systems change and transformation. Adsit is teaching with Catherine Saucedo, Deputy Director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership …
UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Bruce Christiansen is taking a tailored approach to reach out to healthcare providers who treat patients with severe mental illness in an effort to get those providers to engage in interventions to help patients quit smoking. Called the “Bucket Approach,” the idea is that patients with severe mental illness, who smoke at …
Popular Program Offers 2 Weeks of Free Medication Operation Quit Tobacco has helped more than 4,000 Wisconsin military troops and veterans quit smoking or chewing tobacco, like Daryl Bly of Ripon. The program offers free coaching and a two-week course of medication to help troops and vets quit smoking. All military personnel and veterans who …
UW-CTRI and its partners have surpassed the goal of enrolling 600 patients in the Cessation Project of the Breaking Addiction to Tobacco for Health (BREATHE) Study. In fact, this goal was reached in less than a year. UW-CTRI is collaborating with Aurora Health Care in the Milwaukee area and Dean Health System in the Madison …
About 26% of Americans (56 million) have a mental illness, and about 36% of them smoke cigarettes (NIMH, CDC). In comparison, 17% of all adults smoke cigarettes (NHIS 2015).