Cigarette/Nicotine use - a Gateway to other drug use?

ISSUP The Gambia are pleased to present their upcoming Webinar on Cigarette/Nicotine use.

The webinar seeks to explore whether nicotine/cigarette use at an early age can lead to other substance use in later life, especially the effect early nicotine use might have in graduation to smoking cannabis.

Learning Outcomes:

• Articulate the possible linkages (if any) between addiction to or use of nicotine in children with other substance use in adulthood
• Identify prevention strategies necessary to avoid, curb or at least delay nicotine use in children
• Explain how a focus on tobacco use should be considered within substance use prevention content and strategies

Presenter:
Dr. Catherine Egbe

Dr Catherine Egbe is a research psychologist and public health scientist. She obtained a PhD in Psychology and Health Promotion from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban South Africa. 

She is an alumna of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California San Francisco, a World Health Organization collaborating center for tobacco control. 
Dr Egbe is a member of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. She is the Lead Investigator of the following on-going studies: South Africa’s first Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2021, tobacco endgame in Africa, and University students’ exposure to e-cigarette and hookah marketing and advertisement. She has authored over 50 academic publications.
Dr Egbe currently works as a Specialist Scientist in the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council.

Webinars and online events delivered and hosted by the International Society of Substance Use Professionals (ISSUP) are provided for informational purposes only. They are educational in nature and do not constitute medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.