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UW-CTRI Students Examine Parental Smoking, Patient Ability to Retain What They Learn About Quitting

UW-CTRI Researchers Presented Cutting-Edge
Findings at SRNT in Portland

Research Program Overview
The University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) is nationally recognized for its tobacco research. UW-CTRI is also a leader in translating tobacco research results into cutting-edge tobacco treatment.

UW-CTRI is currently conducting its second five-year grant as a Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC), sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This TTURC 2 initiative is designed to identify the most effective tobacco treatments as well as the outcomes of quitting smoking. For more on TTURC 2, click here. For more on TTURC 1 research, click here.

UW-CTRI conducts research not just in labs, but also in healthcare clinics throughout Wisconsin.

  UW-CTRI researcher Christine Ripley assists Eddie with quitting smoking.
UW-CTRI researcher Christine Ripley takes Eddie's blood pressure during a research session designed to help him quit smoking.

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