UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Dr. Jesse Kaye has returned to UW-CTRI, this time as a VA advanced addiction postdoctoral fellow who will be working with UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Jessica Cook for the next two years. Kaye will spend part of each week at UW-CTRI analyzing data from the Wisconsin Smokers’ Health Study 2 (WSHS 2). In particular, he’s interested …
A student from a Wisconsin elementary school shared this illustration and note to inspire patients to quit smoking:
An alarming 40 percent of individuals living with HIV are smokers. UW-CTRI’s Director of Clinical Services, Dr. Doug Jorenby, co-authored the paper, “Cessation-Related Information, Motivation, and Behavioral Skills in Smokers Living with HIV,” recently published in the journal AIDS Care. Dr. Daniel Shirley of the UW Division of Infectious Diseases was the lead author. In …
Adrienne Johnson, Ph.D., is a new postdoctoral fellow at the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) and the William S. Middleton Memorial Veteran’s Hospital, supported by a VA Advanced Fellowship in Women’s Health. She is working with UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research, Dr. Megan Piper, for the next two years. Dr. Johnson’s first …
A group of experts from around the country met at Monona Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin in August to discuss progress on partnerships between UW-CTRI, Epic, Smokefree.gov, and three Wisconsin health-care systems to leverage electronic health records (EHR) technology to help patients quit smoking. UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore presented on several projects made possible by …
UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Bruce Christiansen has been awarded a one-year grant from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to create an online training based on his “Bucket Approach” to help patients with serious or significant mental illness to quit smoking. “Behavioral health practitioners are busy people,” Christiansen said, “so the Bucket Approach is concrete, easy …
The Wisconsin State Journal wrote about how Epic software is prompting GHC staff to contact patients who smoke and offer help to quit. It’s part of a seven-year, $6.1 million R35 federal grant from the National Institutes of Health to UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore. The goal of the grant is to overcome barriers to …
In an era of individualized treatment for patients through “precision medicine,” collecting biological data and integrating analysis within the outcomes of clinical trials has gained a newfound importance. A new paper in Nicotine and Tobacco Research outlines a framework that offers practical advice to help do that. “It’s clear that patients do not respond to …
UW-CTRI is ahead of schedule enrolling patients in the Quitting Using Intensive Treatments Study (QUITS). More than 580 smokers have enrolled with the goal set at 1000. Experienced health counselors are helping these patients to quit smoking. UW-CTRI Research Director Dr. Tim Baker and UW Cardiologist Dr. Jim Stein serve as Principal Investigators of the …
UW-CTRI has completed recruitment for a pilot study designed to encourage participants to practice the act of quitting smoking for up to a day at a time, then return to smoking by only puffing every 30 seconds without inhaling. “The whole idea behind this paced puffing is that we want them to practice quitting, but …