Michael Fiore
Expert on helping smokers to quit
Professor, medicine School of Medicine and Public Health Work: 608-262-3902 ch3@ctri.medicine.wisc.edu Home page
Topics
- Most effective counseling techniques to help smokers quit
- Latest medications to help smokers quit
- Public policies that encourage more people to want to quit smoking, including smoke-free air laws, tobacco tax increases and marketing campaigns
- Medical nature of nicotine addiction and research to counter that addiction
- Genetics behind nicotine addiction
Achievements
- Chair, three times, of federal panel that wrote the clinical practice guidelines on treating tobacco dependence
- Chair, federal panel that determined national tobacco cessation policy recommendations
- Co-principal investigator, two five-year National Institutes of Health-funded studies on tobacco dependence
- Co-director, national Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project to address tobacco cessation in health plans