Panel headed by Michael Fiore releases update to 'Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence'
May 7, 2008

MADISON—Dr. Michael C. Fiore (pictured top right), UWCCC member and co-director of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (CTRI), is the chair of the panel that has produced 'Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update'. The report was last published in 2000.

The 2008 update to Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, a Public Health Service-sponsored Clinical Practice Guideline, is the result of an extraordinary partnership among Federal Government and nonprofit organizations comprised of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Cancer Institute; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Institute on Drug Abuse; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; American Legacy Foundation; and University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention.

Fiore and 36 individuals including Dr. Timothy B. Baker (pictured bottom right), co-director of CTRI, were charged with the responsibility of identifying effective, experimentally validated tobacco dependence treatments and practices.

Each member of this consortium is dedicated to improving the Nation’s public health, and their participation in this collaboration clearly demonstrates a strong commitment to tobacco cessation.

The update was written to include new, effective clinical treatments for tobacco dependence that have become available since the 2000 Guideline was published.

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