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 …
2017 Articles
Exhale Study Completes Recruitment, Pulmonary Data Analysis Begins
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 …
UW-CTRI Outreach Specialist to Speak at State Pharmacy Convention
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. …
Fiore Helps Create Guidelines for WHO Framework for Global Tobacco Control
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 …
Dr. Pat McBride Joins UW-CTRI
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 …
Adsit Serves on Faculty at CDC’s Summer Tobacco-Control Academy
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 …
UW-CTRI’s ‘Bucket Approach’ to Help Patients with Severe Mental Illness Quit Smoking
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 for Troops
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 …
BREATHE Study Exceeds Enrollment Goal for Project 1
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 …
3 Ways for People with Mental Illness to Quit Smoking
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).