Benjamin A. Toll PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Program Director, Smoking Cessation Service at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven

Departments & Organizations

Cancer Center, Yale: Cancer Prevention and Control

Cancer Prevention and Control Center

Psychiatry: Connecticut Mental Health Center | CENTURY | Smoking Cessation and Alcohol Treatment Research Clinic | Psychology Section: Division of Substance Abuse; Substance Abuse Treatment Center | Division of Addictions | ADVANCE Study

Research Interests

Smoking cessation clinical trials; Quitline studies; Smoking cessation with cancer patients; Secondary analyses of clinical trial data; Analyses of mediators and moderators of treatment; Assessment, methods, and psychometrics more...

Education

• B.A., Cornell University, 1996
• M.S., Nova Southeastern University, 1999
• Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University, 2002

Selected Publications

• Toll, B. A., Cummings, K. M., O’Malley, S. S., Carlin-Menter, S., McKee, S. A., Hyland, A., Wu, R., Hopkins, J., & Celestino, P. (2012). Tobacco quitlines need to assess and intervene with callers’ hazardous drinking. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. Available online. DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2012.01767.x
• Toll, B. A., Martino, S., Latimer, A., Salovey, P., O’Malley, S. S., Carlin-Menter, S., Hopkins, J., Wu, R., Celestino, P., & Cummings, K. M. (2010). Randomized trial: Quitline specialist training in gain-framed vs standard care messages for smoking cessation. Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI), 102, 96-106. PMID: 20056957.
• Toll, B. A., White, M., Wu, R., Meandzija, B., Jatlow, P., Makuch, R., & O’Malley, S. S. (2010). Low-dose naltrexone augmentation of nicotine replacement for smoking cessation with reduced weight gain: A randomized trial. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 111, 200-206. PMID: 20542391.

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