December 1, 2010 - The National Cancer Institute is putting American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to good use in saving lives from tobacco related illness. The Tobacco Control Research Branch sponsors a variety of interventions that are presently supported by these funds including web-based, telephonic, and social media strategies to help people quit smoking. Effectiveness research is also underway to add to current scientific knowledge about what does and doesn’t work.

“There are so many compelling reasons why we need to help smokers to quit, and we need to conduct cutting-edge science to provide smokers with new modalities to quit,” said Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA, Professor of Medicine and Director, Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

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