UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Fewer and fewer people who are incarcerated are engaging with smoking cessation treatments, according to findings published in Preventive Medicine Reports; as this population becomes harder to reach, it becomes clear that current intervention strategies are failing to meet their needs. “Not many people look at the intersection of criminality and tobacco use,” said Kari …
UW-CTRI staff and collaborators presented five posters at the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine Research Day. Dr. Matthew Tattersall created three posters based on data from the Cardiac and LUng E-cig Smoking Study (CLUES), a collaboration between staff from UW Cardiology and UW-CTRI. Tattersall presented two of the posters. In one poster, he described …
UW-CTRI Director of Clinical Services Dr. Doug Jorenby will retire July 3, 2023, after 30 years of service at the Center. Jorenby has served as Director of Clinical Services for UW-CTRI since its inception in 1992. He has been a clinical psychologist and professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Medical School, where he …
The University of Wisconsin published the ninth-most smoking cessation-related publications in the world since 2002, according to a paper in Preventive Medicine Reports. The authors, led by Yingxin Xu of China Medical University, reviewed 8797 publications worldwide on smoking cessation between 2002 and 2021. They reported the number of publications on smoking cessation increased from …
UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Wendy Slutske is now a Professor of Medicine with Tenure in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Slutske received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1986 and his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1993. She was a postdoctoral fellow and …
The Bucket Approach online training—designed to teach behavioral health providers how to help their clients quit tobacco use—has enrolled more than 1,300 providers from 48 states and 11 countries who have rated it an 8.4 out of 10, according to a new paper published in Community Mental Health Journal. More than 447 people completed the entire …
The date has arrived. As of October 1, 2022, the revised administrative code chapter DHS 75.24(7) requires all Wisconsin behavioral health providers who treat substance use disorders to have plans in place to assess and treat tobacco use and to have a policy about smoke-free environments. It’s due to Wisconsin’s revised Administrative Code Chapter DHS …
Dr. Michael Fiore will step down as UW-CTRI Director July 1, 2023 but will continue working as a lead scientist on key grants and mentoring young investigators. Fiore co-founded UW-CTRI in 1992 with Associate Director Dr. Tim Baker and has been the director ever since. “It has been a great 30 years,” Fiore said, “and …
A new study published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research examined “dual users”—people who both smoke traditional cigarettes and vape e-cigarettes—and found that people who predominantly vape were vaping instead of smoking, a process called “substitution,” and that this substitution might be sustainable long term, a way to help people wean off smoking traditional cigarettes. “This …
Two counties on the tippy top of Northern Wisconsin—along the shores of Lake Superior—have implemented the Bucket Approach for helping patients with behavioral health challenges to quit tobacco use. The Bucket Approach, developed by retired UW-CTRI researcher Dr. Bruce Christiansen, is an evidence-based strategy to treat tobacco use among clients in a systematic, efficient way. The idea …