UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
United States Surgeon General Jerome Adams spoke at the 2018 SRNT Annual Conference in front of a packed audience at the Hilton Baltimore. Adams talked passionately about treating tobacco use as “the ethical thing to do. We’re doing a great job bringing the rates down, but it’s still affecting millions of Americans. And we know …
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 eight posters presented by UW-CTRI experts. Here is a brief summary of the findings. Presentations 1. Referral to Randomized Smoking …
UW-CTRI has submitted its next major center grant to the National Cancer Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health). The grant is set to be reviewed for scientific merit in June or July. The current P01 grant, known as the BREATHE study, has concluded recruitment. Funding for BREATHE isn’t set to end until August 2019. However, …
Following the QUITS news conferences in Milwaukee and Madison, 2,226 Wisconsinites volunteered to participate in a new UW-CTRI research study designed to help 1,000 people quit smoking. That’s a record response to a new study at the Center. UW-CTRI staff are now contacting volunteers as well as holding orientation sessions and initial visits. It’s all thanks …
The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) has invited four more late-breaking posters based on UW-CTRI research to be shared at its 2018 annual meeting at the Baltimore Hilton February 21-24. In addition to six podium presentations, there will be eight posters assembled by UW-CTRI experts. Presentations Posters Posters will be in the Key Ballroom …
Outreach Specialist Allison Gorrilla presented UW-CTRI research last month at a statewide summit for free and charitable clinics. Gorrilla presented in one of five breakout sessions that the Wisconsin Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (WAFCC) Summit held. The conference brings in clinicians from free and charitable clinics that serve uninsured or underinsured patients from …
The Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation (WWHF) has received a $1 million grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program to significantly expand efforts to bring quit-smoking services to high-risk individuals, families and communities across Wisconsin. UW-CTRI is collaborating with WWHF on this project, to be provided during five years to First Breath Families. The group will also …
MILWAUKEE—People in the Milwaukee and Madison areas who want to quit smoking can get free medication and coaching starting today, thanks to a $7 million 4-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI). All participants get: Some participants also get: Participants will receive …
The UW Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center (UW-CCC) and UW-CTRI are coordinating the Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (C3I) project to help cancer centers implement systems to identify patients who smoke and help them quit. C3I is part of the Cancer Moonshot, new federal funding to the National Cancer Institute (NCI). In part, the Moonshot was inspired …
While most behavioral-health patients want to quit smoking, most providers who treat them don’t realize it, according to a recent paper in the Community Mental Health Journal. The paper is written by Dr. Li-Shiun Chen of Washington University in St. Louis in collaboration with UW-CTRI Director Dr. Tim Baker, UW-CTRI Director of Clinical Services Dr. …