UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore and his co-authors recently pointed out a weakness in the high-profile “Best Hospitals Honor Roll” published annually by U.S. News and World Report. Namely, that these hospitals aren’t reporting on how they treat the leading preventable cause of disease and death: Tobacco use. Their paper, published recently in JAMA Internal Medicine, …
Dr. Mike Miller (left) has been advocating for free access to medications to help Medicaid members quit smoking, and a parade of support is following him. That includes UW-CTRI, the Wisconsin Medical Society (WMS), and the Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin (PSW). Medicaid members can already get nicotine-replacement medications (NRT) at their pharmacies, but they aren’t …
The Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line on Oct. 1, 2020 debuted a new website with one-click technology to either call or text the Quit Line from a mobile device or computer. It also marked the launch of a new program designed specifically to help people of American Indian decent to quit commercial tobacco use. The American …
California on August 28 became the second state (after Massachusetts) to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products—including flavored e-cigarettes, flavored cigars and menthol cigarettes. In California, more than 85 percent of youth who use e-cigarettes use flavored products, and more than 85 percent of youth who use little cigars use flavored cigars. In addition, more …
Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network Director Lorraine Lathen (right) and UW-CTRI Associate Director of Research Dr. Danielle McCarthy (below) penned a letter to the editor on the risks of tobacco to African Americans, published in the Cap Times, a weekly paper in Madison, Wisconsin. Edgar Mendez of the Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Poverty Network pitched …
Deejay Zwaga, MPH, UW-CTRI Biostatistical Analyst, has been awarded grant funding from the National Cancer Center as part of their diversity program. The award is a supplement to the R35 Grant held by UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore in partnership with Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin. “I am very excited about this opportunity,” …
UW-CTRI Assistant Scientist Dr. Adrienne Johnson presented “Smoking in Relation to Aging and Dementia” as part of the online Geriatrics Interprofessional Conference Series. The audience included clinicians and other healthcare providers and academics. Johnson shared research showing that smoking is a modifiable risk for dementia. Quitting smoking reduces risk for cognitive decline at any age. …
UW-CTRI researchers used an electronic device to track the use of nicotine gum by participants in the UW-Partnership to Assist and Serve Smokers (UW-PASS) Study (who also all received nicotine patches), and found that people who had a slip and smoked (lapsed) while trying to quit used less gum right before and after that first …
UW-CTRI Outreach Director Rob Adsit recently presented during a national online conference for all state tobacco prevention and control programs across America. He delivered “Best Practices and Emerging Opportunities for Applying a Comprehensive Approach to Cessation” with Joyce Swetlick, Tobacco Cessation Director for the North Carolina State Health Department. They described the three major cessation goals for state …
UW-CTRI Director of Research Dr. Tim Baker recently served as the discussant for an international half-day webinar on COVID-19 and smoking featuring esteemed researchers from the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. Presenters included Dr. Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin (Yale), Dr. Jonathan Samet (Colorado), Dr. Neal Benowitz (UC-San Francisco), Dr. Olga Perski (London), Dr. Geoffrey Fong …