Before Dr. Chinou Vang began his residency in June at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, he used the skills he learned from the Tobacco Dependence Treatment Course at the University of Wisconsin, taught by …
Tanya Schlam
UW-CTRI Researchers Present Posters at Research Day, Win Awards
Six researchers from UW-CTRI presented their work last month at the 2019 UW Department of Medicine Research Day at the Health Sciences Learning Center in Madison, and two of them won awards for it. Dr. Nayoung …
Vaping a Hot Topic at SRNT in San Francisco, Including in UW-CTRI Presentations
Vaping was a hot topic at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine or Tobacco (SRNT) held at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco, as use of vaping products have …
UW-CTRI Researchers to Present at SRNT Conference in San Francisco
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 …
More Gum + Patches Meant Better Chances
According to research by Dr. Tanya Schlam and colleagues at UW-CTRI, smokers who used more nicotine gum (up to 5 pieces a day) with nicotine patches tended to have higher quit rates: 59% had quit smoking at 6 …
UW-CTRI Staff Share Findings at UW Department of Medicine Research Day
UW-CTRI staff and collaborators presented research findings at the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine (DOM) Research Day June 15 at the Health Sciences Learning Center on the UW campus in Madison. This included an …
UW-CTRI Presents Research at SRNT Baltimore
UW-CTRI researchers presented 14 times at the 2018 annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) at the Baltimore Hilton February 21-24. In addition to six podium presentations, there will be …
Smokers with Psychiatric Diagnoses Benefitted More from 16 Weeks of Medication than Those Without Such Diagnoses
It turns out that 16 weeks of quit-smoking medications improves quit rates, compared to 8 weeks of medications, for smokers with a history of psychiatric diagnoses, but not for those without such diagnoses in a recent UW-CTRI …
UW-CTRI Staff Present 11 Times at SRNT Conference in Chicago
UW-CTRI staff presented four speeches and seven posters at the 2016 annual conference of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in downtown Chicago. The closest thing to …
UW-CTRI Staff Set to Present at SRNT Chicago
The annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) is the first week of March in Chicago at the Sheraton Hotel and several UW-CTRI researchers are set to present: Thursday UW-CTRI Research …