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TRY Team Past Research

The TRY research team, led by Dr. Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, has over 25 years of experience in addiction research focused on youth. The team has conducted multiple studies funded by the National Institutes of Health and American Heart Association, using a variety of methods, including focus groups and individual interviews, large-scale surveys, laboratory experimental paradigms, and human neuroimaging studies to understand the appeal and use of tobacco products among middle school- and high school-aged youth and college-aged young adults. The team has also led efforts to develop and test innovative and effective interventions to treat and prevent youth tobacco use. The team’s impactful efforts have resulted in over 100 publications, many of which were seminal in the field and have been cited in reports by the Surgeon General and to support FDA tobacco regulations.

Some or our past programs have included:

  • End Nicotine Addition in Children and Teens - Virtual quit vaping program and Withdrawal measurement development

  • Virtual individual counseling with a trained clinician and behavioral reinforcement strategies to help teens to quit vaping.

  • 2013

    Message Framing


    This study was conducted to obtain a better understanding of how information about smoking should be presented to adolescents who smoke cigarettes

  • 2012-2017

    PDC

    Four week quit smoking study using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and incentives for being nicotine free.

    Six week quit smoking study using Nicotine Patch along with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and incentives for being nicotine free.

  • 2011-2018

    AAT/IAT

    Four week quit smoking study using Approach Avoidance Training along with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

  • 2012-ongoing

    School wide Tobacco Surveys

    Annual survey conducted throughout high schools in Connecticut to understand tobacco use patterns among middle and high school students.

  • 2009-2012

    Quit and Win

    School-wide smoking/nicotine prevention study in which participating students were randomly selected to receive rewards for being nicotine free.

  • 1998-2003

    Acute nicotine abstinence in adolescents

    Adolescent smokers and nonsmokers were assessed during a 48-hour inpatient session. Characteristic nicotine withdrawal symptoms, cravings for cigarettes, and mood symptoms were measured following initiation of abstinence.