Cancer survivors are often excluded from smoking cessation studies, even though survivors managing chronic pain are significantly more likely to use nicotine than the general population.
Rich Yi is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Director of the Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment, which became a Life Span Institute center in 2018.
A project with Cofrin Logan Center researchers aims to improve screening and care through the development of a consistent method to ask head and neck cancer patients about their use of alcohol.