UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
The State of Wisconsin and UW-CTRI partnered to promote the Wisconsin Medicaid Cessation Benefit, which provides no-cost tobacco cessation counseling and pharmacotherapy services to help people with low incomes quit smoking, vaping, or chewing tobacco products. Covered medications include all legend drugs and over-the-counter products, with a written prescription from a prescriber. Medicaid does not …
Mary Tucker started smoking when she was 15, while her young brain was still growing, and kept lighting up for 50 years. But, late in 2018, she quit for good with the help of the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line. “I did this for me,” Tucker said proudly. “I promised myself for New Year’s I was …
Dr. Jim Cleary continues to serve as the head of the UW-CTRI Data and Statistical Management Committee, even after moving from Wisconsin and the UW Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center (UWCCC) to Indiana to become the director of the new Walther Supportive Oncology Program at Indiana University School of Medicine (IU). Dr. Cleary is an oncologist …
Use of modest financial incentives to encourage low-income smokers to engage with the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line is a cost-effective option, according to a paper written by Dr. Marlon Mundt and colleagues at UW-CTRI. Financial incentives for increasing smoking quit rates among Medicaid recipients is cost effective, according to the paper in the journal Value …
The following is an editorial commentary by David “Mac” Macmaster: The Wisconsin Nicotine Treatment Integration Project (WINTIP) was launched in 2008. WINTIP has been advocating tobacco integration in Wisconsin behavioral-health services for 10 years now. What has happened in this WINTIP decade? For one thing, our best information is that at least 70,000 Wisconsin residents …
UW-CTRI staff will present 17 times at SRNT 2019 in San Francisco, via seven presentations and 10 research posters. Pre-conference Workshop An Update to the Basics: Current Approaches for Measuring and Understanding Key Individual Differences and Cessation Outcomes. Dr. Megan Piper, presenter. Treatment Network pre-conference workshop 7. Wednesday, February 20, 8:30-11:30 a.m. Symposia and Presentations 1. …
UW-CTRI Researchers Dr. Wendy Theobald (right) and Dr. Michael Fiore have contributed three articles to the Italian medical journal Tabaccologia, encouraging Italians to quit smoking and clinicians to lead by example and through systematic treatment. The articles, written by Theobald, have included: Tabaccologia, the official publication for Societa Italiana di Tabaccologia (SITAB), has published rigorous, …