University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: 2025 Articles

How Ego Networks Affect Vaping in Fraternities

Researchers from the Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle—as well as from UW-CTRI and Texas A&M—recently published a paper in the Journal of American College Health on how college fraternity members’ social networks relate to vaping. Researchers studied 212 male participants and their “ego networks,” defined as a representation of the social relationships between each individual (ego) with …

Do Enhanced Re-Treatment Services Work? 

If, at first, you don’t succeed in quitting smoking, try, try again; just know that standard treatments generally work about the same as enhanced ones. Among socioeconomically disadvantaged Wisconsin residents who called the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line and didn’t stay smoke-free, adding more treatment components like more counseling, more nicotine medication, and text message support …