Lindsey Potter
University of Utah, UT·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death and disease and is linked to about 20 cancers. Tobacco use has not declined equally across all groups of people.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Psychology
Medicine & Clinical Research
- Topics
tobacco use
smoking
cancer prevention
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jun 2027
What they work on
- Examine how interacting demographic factors, such as income and sex, relate to real-time changes in stress, negative emotion, self-efficacy and tobacco use, using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) phone surveys.
- Use wearable sensors alongside EMA to capture objective, real-world measures of how emotions and smoking behavior shift with time and social context.
- Advance methods for studying combinations of demographic factors, rather than single factors, in intensive real-time mobile health (mHealth) data on tobacco-related outcomes.
- Generate findings that can guide just-in-time adaptive interventions, which deliver tailored smoking-cessation support at the moments people need it most.
More about the research
Most studies look at one factor at a time, such as income. That approach misses differences within groups and how several factors together, such as income and sex, shape people's experiences and behavior. This project asks how combinations of demographic factors interact with stress, emotion and daily context to influence smoking as it happens.
Why it matters
Smoking causes many cancers, and declines in tobacco use have been uneven. By showing how overlapping demographic, social and contextual factors shape stress and smoking moment to moment, this work could guide personalized, well-timed cancer prevention and quit-smoking interventions. These could help people in groups that existing approaches have served less well.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Dina Jones
University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Define how momentary negative mood and nicotine craving relate to smoking lapse within individuals, using phone-based ecological momentary assessment in up to 150 adults who smoke menthol cigarettes during a planned quit attempt.
Andre Miguel
Washington State University, WA·Medicine & Clinical Research
Test whether rural smokers with alcohol use disorder who receive varenicline plus app-based contingency management submit more breathalyzer samples showing alcohol abstinence and non-heavy drinking days than those using a control app.
Anna Kratz
University of Michigan, MI·Psychology·Early-career
Test whether smartphone-delivered ambulatory cognitive tests and real-time self-reports detect two-year changes in cognitive function in multiple sclerosis more sensitively than conventional clinic-based snapshot assessments.
The school
University of Utah: 58 labs on PI Pages, $789M a year on research, 366 research doctorates a year.
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