UW-CTRI Research Studies
On the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States
UW-CTRI currently operates 12 research studies. These examine the health effects of vaping, how to address dual use of cigarettes and vapes, how to help youth address their vaping, whether pouches can help people go longer before the next cigarette and how best to help veterans quit smoking.
Below is a list of current and recent studies.
UW-CTRI studies
Here is a list of current and recent studies. If a study is recruiting, the area where it’s recruiting is in parentheses.
Currently recruiting participants
- Vape Check (Milwaukee and Madison)
- Avenues Study: for those who smoke + vape (national recruitment)
- Helping Youth Quit Vaping (national)
- Options 2 (for those who smoke in Milwaukee and Madison)
- Salvation Army Tobacco Treatment Initiative (Wisconsin)
- At EASE: Helping Veterans (Madison VA)
- Cancer Center Cessation Initiative (C3I, via participating centers)
Other studies
- BREATHE 2
- STOP Cancer Study
- COVID EHR Cohort at the University of Wisconsin
- Withdraw From Tobacco Study
- Options 1
- Motivating Change in Aging Smokers
- QUITS: Quit Using Intensive Treatments Study
- Quit Line eReferral Evaluation
- R35 grant
- Exhale: Vaping and Smoking
- Practice Quitting Study
- Striving to Quit: Helping Medicaid Patients Quit Smoking
- Wisconsin Smokers’ Health Study 2
- 3 Meds
- UW-PASS
- TTURC: Research by the UW Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center
- Games Study
- Rheumatology & Smoking
- Cardiac and Lung E-cigarette Smoking Study (CLUES)
For a complete list of recent studies, grants, papers, and presentations, click here.