Pandemic Survival Blog

Complaints are plastered all over reviews, blogs and comment boards about how nicotine gum leaves you with a bad taste, mouth burn and nausea. Even brands that brag about having decent flavor get the same negative reviews. Then there are the   grim statistics  for the gum and the patch to help people actually quit smoking or vaping, coming in at a low 6 percent (that’s a 94 percent failure rate), and after six months, that figure gets cut in half (that becomes a 97 percent failure rate). That boils down to only 3 percent of all nicotine patch and gum consumers ever really successfully using these products as a quit method. So then the question looms, why do they keep buying them? Let’s take a look. The nicotine patch market globally is worth over $6 billion dollars, and the nicotine gum market another $5 billion. The reason hundreds of millions of nicotine users buy them is to quash the cravings when they can’t use their nicotine delivery device, whether at work, traveling by plane, tr

  Currently, twenty percent of all humans on earth smoke cigarettes and have no idea how to quit. They’ll say they’ve quit before, but did they? They will tell you they are about to quit soon, but are they? How? Cold turkey? Only three to five percent of smokers who quit “cold turkey,” meaning abruptly with no help, last more than six months without getting dragged right back into the undertow by just one cigarette, usually due to stress, and then it’s right back to a pack a day within weeks. The  nicotine patch and nicotine gum  are next to hopeless too, with only a four percent success rate. That dismal statistic is mostly because they still contain nicotine, the world’s third most addictive drug. Plus the patch and gum are big pharma scams manufactured and sold by Big Tobacco. Surprise, surprise. Heck, quitting smoking using the patch or gum, well, that’s like trying to quit being an alcoholic by shifting from whiskey to beer. Then there are the  horrific medications  that cause eve