Pandemic Survival Blog

For over a century, Big Tobacco has manipulated the American Medical Association , the Food and Drug Administration, and even the Centers for Disease Control, using big money payoffs for thousands of medical doctor endorsements . They covered up and hid the science for over 30 years that smoking causes lung cancer , which they all knew about since the 1930s and 40s. Then came the early 1960s, when Marlboro (and Kool ) commercial cigarette manufacturers figured out they could freebase nicotine using ammonia, making the "hook" of the addiction much stronger, and thus much tougher to quit. They nearly put all the other brands out of business. It was called "ammonia technology" by Philip Morris, and it's said to deliver up to 100 milligrams of nicotine potency in one cigarette, even though machines that gauge the milligrams only read it as 20 - 30 milligrams. That's the hook, and it robs millions of people of their health and livelihood, every day. Loading t...

  Feeling triggered? Eating too much sugar, drinking too much alcohol, or using too much nicotine literally changes the brain's chemistry, but these addictions can be replaced with natural remedies that quell the urges and replace that feeling that you "need" the crutches just to get by. Many people quit addictions, only to be dragged back into them because they get "triggered" when someone around them engages in the activity they quit, like eating sweets in front of them, drinking alcohol near them, or smoking or vaping in their vicinity. Once addicted to sugar, alcohol, or nicotine, the human brain is wired to want it, and it would seem that there's nothing else on the planet that can replace it, but you would be surprised. The neurotransmitter dopamine is the hormone responsible for our "feel good" chemistry, and there are ways to boost it, without using drugs, sugar, or alcohol. You don't have to be a "repeat offender" of the ad...