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Dr. Doug Jorenby began working on tobacco research before UW-CTRI became an official center in 1992, yet he swears he’s not the real Dr. Who. Jorenby began working with the group that would become UW-CTRI, then known as TRIP, or the Tobacco Research and Intervention Program, 25 years ago. Back in 1990, Dr. Jorenby was a …
UW-CTRI and its partners have surpassed the goal of enrolling 600 patients in the Cessation Project of the Breaking Addiction to Tobacco for Health (BREATHE) Study. In fact, this goal was reached in less than a year. UW-CTRI is collaborating with Aurora Health Care in the Milwaukee area and Dean Health System in the Madison …
About 26% of Americans (56 million) have a mental illness, and about 36% of them smoke cigarettes (NIMH, CDC). In comparison, 17% of all adults smoke cigarettes (NHIS 2015).
A common fear of many smokers who want to quit is that they will lose many people in their social network―family, friends or co-workers―when they quit.
The Ochsner Award is named in honor of Doctor Alton Ochsner, co-founder of the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans. In 1939, he was first to publish evidence relating tobacco smoking as the major cause of lung cancer.
The American Lung Association (ALA) has selected UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Bruce Christiansen as the recipient of the 2017 C. Everett Koop Unsung Hero Award. ALA will formally recognize Christiansen at their annual awards dinner in June. Christiansen has worked tirelessly to serve the most vulnerable of smokers, including those who are homeless, struggle with addiction …
UW-CTRI is celebrating a quarter-century of work to help patients quit tobacco use. “I owe a lot to this quit-smoking study,” said Mike Eheler (above), a father-of-four who quit smoking with help from the Wisconsin Smokers’ Health Study. “Without the help, I don’t think I would have quit.” He’s now healthy enough to play ball …
Wisconsin Public Radio interviewed UW-CTRI Director of Clinical Services Dr. Doug Jorenby about youth vaping. To see Dr. Jorenby’s research on people who both smoke and vape, click here.
In a city that displays art by the likes of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, five UW-CTRI staff members presented research findings to peers at the 2017 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) Annual Meeting March 8-11. UW-CTRI Associate Research Director Dr. Megan Piper (above) served as the discussant at the symposium “Time-varying …