ABOUT US

Emphasizing research, cessation, and education, the Tobacco Cessation and Biobehavioral Center’s ultimate goal is to move Indiana out of the group of states with the most tobacco users and tobacco-related diseases to a group of states with the least. The basic science research component of the Center will initially look at tobacco’s effect on oral health. The behavioral research component of the Center will focus on developing a unified system of referral treatment and follow-up for patients looking to break the nicotine addiction. The educational component will reduce the number of tobacco-related illnesses in Indiana in two ways: First by graduating researchers and advocates who advance scientific and behavioral knowledge about tobacco and its systemic and oral-ill effects; and second, by training health professional students to provide their patients with specific tobacco cessation techniques and intervention strategies.

The Center is also in the process of developing its smoking and smokeless tobacco cessation consultation practice to best serve vulnerable populations, including African Americans, Hispanics, children, women, the economically disadvantaged, and the chemically dependent.

L Jack Windsor, PhD
Director

Contact information:

Tobacco Cessation and Biobehavioral Center
Denise A. Allen, Research Coordinator
1121 West Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317.274.5419
317.278.1411 (fax)
Email: denallen@iupui.edu

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