UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
Dr. Danielle McCarthy describes a new grant designed to help people at community service organizations to address their tobacco use. UW-CTRI will partner with the Salvation Army of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan on a new $6 million grant to evaluate sustainable strategies Salvation Army staff can use to connect their adult participants who use tobacco …
The National Institutes of Health has funded a five-year, $5.7 million grant to the UW to study the long-term effects of vaping on heart and lung health. People who participate will receive up to $675 for completing the three-year study. They’ll also get individualized test results and updates on their health. Although some studies have …
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Hasmeena Kathuria has been named the Jan and Kathryn Ver Hagen Professor of Translational Research in Medicine. This professorship confirms the high esteem that colleagues across campus hold for Kathuria’s work. “This is an incredible honor,” said Kathuria, “and I’d like to thank the Ver Hagens, as well as Provost and Vice …
From left: Dr. Brian Williams, Rev. Steven Tipton, Dr. Adrienne Johnson, Dr. Marcia Tipton and Dr. Hasmeena Kathuria. Teens from El Bethel Church in Milwaukee visited UW-CTRI—where faculty spoke to them about smoking and vaping.
There are many forms of dementia. Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and vascular dementia are the first and second most common types. All-cause dementia was associated with increased mortality risk from COVID-19, according to a new University of Wisconsin paper published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia, but this risk was much lower than what was found …
UW-CTRI Regional Outreach Specialist Allison (Allie) Gorrilla has taken on an additional duty—coordinating the Wisconsin Nicotine Treatment Integration Project (WiNTIP). WiNTiP was co-founded by Dr. Eric Heiligenstein and David “Mac” Macmaster back in 2008, and originally managed by UW-CTRI Distinguished Researcher Dr. Bruce Christiansen, who retired in 2022. It is supported by the Wisconsin Commercial …
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $3.8 million grant to UW-CTRI to see if nicotine pouches can replace smoking among participants in a randomized comparative effectiveness study. “It’s a question of public health,” said Co-Principal Investigator and UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Thomas Piasecki. “The toxic byproducts of tobacco combustion are responsible for a great …
For Immediate Release August 15, 2024 Expanded Program Offers Free Medication The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced today the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line has expanded its text-based Live Vape Free program to include young adults ages 18-26. The program supports young Wisconsinites on the path to ending their use of nicotine and vape …
Using wearable devices to collect data from participants, researchers developed novel analytic strategies to examine how heart rate changes when participants were getting ready to vape. They found that the average heart rate increased before a vaping event. Importantly, the development of increasing heart rate observed in this study suggested that there may be time …
Clinicians should assess both daily and nondaily cigarette smoking, as either can include patients with tobacco use disorder (TUD), according to new research published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. TUD prevalence estimates are lacking, likely because studies generally assess only daily smoking or heaviness of smoking, wrote lead author Dr. Joanna Streck of Harvard …