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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. The Society has about 600 members. Her talk was a break-out session titled, “Cold Turkey, E-cigarettes, Meds and More: Developing …

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 Health Organization (WHO) reports that only a few countries across the globe have adequate access to health care interventions to …

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 of UW-CTRI and the health of the state of Wisconsin and beyond, which was always the focus of my career,” …

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 Course, which includes health-systems change and transformation. Adsit is teaching with Catherine Saucedo, Deputy Director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership …

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 patients quit smoking. Called the “Bucket Approach,” the idea is that patients with severe mental illness, who smoke at …

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 coaching and a two-week course of medication to help troops and vets quit smoking. All military personnel and veterans who …

Read the full article at: http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/10/health/anti-smoking-cdc-campaign-latinos/

Welcome to the site dedicated to helping providers with behavioral health patients to treat tobacco use. Here, you’ll find everything you’ll need to help your behavioral patients quit smoking, chewing, or vaping tobacco. It’s all part of the Wisconsin Nicotine Treatment Integration Project (WiNTiP). “I challenge all deliveries of care: CSPs, residential, private psychotherapy, and those programs …

A group of experts from around the country met at Epic Systems headquarters in Verona, Wisconsin last week to discuss plans to better design electronic health records (EHR) technology to help healthcare professionals help their patients quit smoking. UW-CTRI is partnering with Epic, the world’s largest EHR vendor, to incorporate this new tobacco-treatment system into …