Dr. Divya Sharma remembers seeing a patient whose mother had implored her to quit smoking from her death bed. The patient wanted desperately to quit but didn’t know how. Dr. Sharma hugged her and helped her get started, but wished she had more time and resources to offer. Now as the physician coordinator from Dean …

UW-CTRI launched its primary research study, Breaking Addiction to Tobacco for Health (BREATHE) January 20 at the Dean Health Care clinic in Janesville and the Aurora Health Care clinic at Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee. More than 100 referrals have already come in and health counselors are following up. Under the BREATHE project, any smoker who visits a …

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 …

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 …