Jump to full article: Badger Herald, 2009-11-13
Author: David Brazy
Intro: University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention has received a grant for more than $9 million for research to help people quit smoking.
UW-CTRI will receive the money over a five-year period from the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, said UW-CTRI Director Michael Fiore. UW-CTRI had to apply for the grant and was selected to receive the research money.
Fiore added the grant money will be used to help people who are already smokers and actively are trying to quit or are considering trying to quit.
"We're really trying to expand the treatments that will help smokers who want to quit to do that successfully, and specifically were trying to come up with treatments for people who are ready to quit today as well as those who are open to quitting but are not ready yet, and how do we motivate them so they are willing to make a quit attempt," Fiore said.
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