Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and UVM Cancer Center member Elias Klemperer, Ph.D.

(MARCH 6, 2024) Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and UVM Cancer Center member Elias Klemperer, Ph.D., spoke with WCAX-TV about his recent R01 grant to further study nicotine-limiting standards for cigarettes and e-cigarettes among adults in Rhode Island, Vermont, and Northern New York State.

The five-year trial will study nicotine-limiting standards across the Northeast; in particular, what works to get smokers to switch to products that use less nicotine.

“We’re consistently finding that when people who smoke cigarettes switch over to very low nicotine content cigarettes it reduces smoking overall. It cuts down on toxicant exposure and increases cigarette abstinence, which has the potential to have a tremendous public health impact and save a lot of lives,” Klemperer said.