Smoking, Quitting and Vaping: Why do people smoke? And why is it so difficult to quit? Could vaping be part of the solution?
By Professor Lynne Dawkins, Professor of Nicotine and Tobacco Studies, School of Applied Sciences, LSBU
Description: E-cigarettes have become the most popular aid for stopping smoking in the UK and their use is widespread across the world. This has raised important questions about their effectiveness and safety. In an evidence review of e-cigarette research, Public Health England have stated that they are 95% safer than smoking. Public perceptions of e- cigarettes however, are often inaccurate with many believing that they are just as harmful, or more harmful than smoking. Understanding how we can make e-cigarettes a viable and attractive alternative to smokers whilst ensuring vaping is as safe as it can be, could ultimately save many lives.
In this inaugural lecture, Professor Dawkins will give an overview of over 2 decades of work on smoking and vaping. This will begin with a presentation of findings from her PhD and post-doctoral work on motivational, emotional and cognitive effects of nicotine, nicotine abstinence and predictors of relapse. She will then explore how vaping can replace smoking and why e-cigarettes work for some smokers but not others. She will present studies on e-cigarette usage behaviour, effects on urge to smoke, pharmacokinetic data on blood nicotine delivery as well as more recent work on e-cigarette pack messages. She will explain why regulators don’t always get it right and how well-intended policies can have unintended consequences.
Biography:
Professor Dawkins is a widely published academic in the field of addiction psychology, specialising in the effects of tobacco smoking, nicotine and electronic cigarette usage. Dawkins holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London where she also completed postdoctoral studies. Her research has covered profiles of use, acute effects, puffing topographies and nicotine delivery. She has shared her work through various academic conferences, public lectures and online media and her current work is funded by Cancer Research UK and the National Institute of Health Research.
She is an assistant editor in the journal Addiction and editor for the Special Edition on Tobacco Harm Reduction in the Harm Reduction Journal. She has been a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) since 2012.
Dawkins is currently Professor of Nicotine and Tobacco Studies at LSBU’s School of Applied Sciences, where she teaches modules on addiction psychology and research methods at Bachelors and Masters level courses, as well as supervising a number of BSc and MSc research projects and PhD students.
This lecture was recorded on 13 April 2022
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