After smoking for 50 years, Claudia Anderson decided it was time for a change. Her daughter, Nicole Nelson, had quit smoking, so she decided to try to follow suit. Anderson had quit cold turkey once before for two years, but it didn’t stick. This time she thinks it will. Like Nelson, Anderson called the Wisconsin …
FOR RELEASE Program to Help Fond du Lac County Smokers Quit FOND DU LAC—Striving to Quit, a project to help BadgerCare Plus and Medicaid members quit smoking, will be available to eligible Fond du Lac County residents beginning on Monday, Jan. 5. Striving to Quit offers enhanced coaching from the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line and …
Adult Cigarette Smoking Rate Overall Hits All-time Low
UW-CTRI is making final preparations to roll out its primary research study, Breaking Addiction to Tobacco for Health (BREATHE). This center grant study is set to launch January 20 at the Dean Health Care clinic in Janesville and the Aurora Health Care clinic at Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee. BREATHE staff are preparing many aspects of this …
Could a doctor someday use a smoker’s genetics to tailor treatments? We’re not there yet, but researchers are working on it, if only in the early stages. Dr. Li-Shiun Chen of Washington University in St. Louis is leading a clinical trial, funded by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, that: UW-CTRI Research …
Nov. 19, 2014 ACA Calls for Coverage to Quit Smoking: Will Insurers do the Right Thing With the Great American Smoke Out tomorrow, November 20, an article in the New England Journal of Medicine calls on insurers across the country to comply with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and do the right thing to help …
Nov. 12, 2014 UW Researchers Identify Key Reason Some Smokers May Struggle So Much to Quit University of Wisconsin researchers have identified a key reason smokers struggle so much to break their addiction. After quitting, many smokers suffer from anhedonia, a pervasive inability to experience pleasure during life activities that one normally enjoys, according to a …
UW-CTRI Researcher Dr. Tanya Schlam has been named a recipient of the 2014 William E. Scheckler Award for outstanding research. This award was established by the faculty council of the Department of Family Medicine in 1994, in honor of Dr. Scheckler’s contributions to the promotion of scholarly activity in the Department. Schlam’s project, “Preschoolers’ Delay of Gratification Predicts Their Body …
(Above, from left) UW-CTRI Director Dr. Michael Fiore and Outreach Specialists Allison Gorrilla and Amy Skora discuss how to help patients quit tobacco use during the Days of Learning event October 7 at Country Springs Hotel in Waukesha. UW-CTRI researchers and outreach staff shared the latest news, evidence, and best practices on how to help …
When it comes to helping people quit smoking, more isn’t always better. UW-CTRI researchers have found that Smokefree.gov significantly helped patients quit smoking, but this effect was reduced when patients visiting the site also received periodic e-mail messages from the study. “We hypothesized that this might be due to a degree of annoyance or fatigue felt by …