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The Prevention and Treatment in Clinical Health (PATCH) laboratory is located in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso. Supervised by Dr. Ted Cooper, the lab researches several areas related to disease prevention and health promotion including tobacco use, sedentary behavior, diet, food intake, and cancer prevention. Many current research endeavors focus on Hispanic populations in the El Paso/Ciudad Juárez region .
   
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Your Health: Light smokers could need help quitting, too
Some smoke just a few cigarettes each day. Others smoke only on weekends, with certain friends or in certain places. The habits of light, occasional or non-daily cigarette smokers are so varied that experts have yet to come up with a single label for them – though the term "chippers" gets some use. 
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MSU research: Heart attacks decrease after bans implemented
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A Mississippi State study released Monday [Nov. 9] shows a 27 percent decrease in heart attacks among Starkville residents since the city passed a smoking ban in 2006. 
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CDC Finds No Decrease in Adult Smoking
Success of government efforts to reduce tobacco use seem to have reached a plateau as smoking rates among U.S. adults remained largely unchanged from 2004 to 2008, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).  
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StopLite Article - Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Please read the article about StopLite on UTEP's NOVA magazine 
 

Must see - Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Lab members have seen their research efforts crystallized into poster publications. If you are interested in reading the findings that previous and current research projects have produced, click on "Conferences" and take a look at these publications according to the conference they were presented at. You will be amazed at the empirical questions that the PATCH Lab members have answered.

 

Contact Info - Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Graduate Lab Phone: (915) 747-6071

                             (915) 747-7096
Lab Phone: (915) 747-5784

Lab Email: patchlab@utep.edu 

 

   
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