1) Figure out the type of person who caused the trauma
2) Learn their psychology/world view (there are books on abusive personalities)
3) Learn to recognise them quickly
4) Have a plan to deal with them
5) Profit (you'll always have the upper hand)
By doing this you take away their ability to do anything. For some types this riles them up, which can be advantageous in eliminating the threat but also dangerous. You can plan for this.
FWIW nicotine in cigarettes is only as addictive as it is because tobacco also contains short acting MAOIs (monoamine oxidase inhibitors - harmane and harmaline, the same ones combined with DMT) and other additives that relax the airways and increase nicotine absorption.
Smoking a cigarette is like taking a fast acting but short duration antidepressant along with a mild/moderate stimulant simultaneously, which has been specifically engineered to go from lungs to brain in the shortest time possible.
Switching to vaping from smoking has a transition period ranging from a few days to just over a week while the brain adjusts to receiving the nicotine much more slowly. Vaping relieves nicotine cravings, but at normal doses in an ex-smoker barely scratches the surface of the instant relief/rush delivered by a cigarette.
Nicotine itself and on its own is relatively harmless to an ex-smoker. But should still be avoided by non-smokers.
Most of the harm caused by cigarettes are related to the tobacco-specific nitrosamines found naturally in tobacco which are carcinogenic, combined with additional carcinogens and harmful compounds created when tobacco combusts.
That said many of the flavourings used in e-cigarettes are harmful to health, especially when heated. Most notably sucralose, which itself partially decomposes into carcinogenic compounds when heated to temperatures reached by vaping. But that's another problem, my main point is that nicotine is only about as harmful as caffeine when consumed alone outside the context of a cigarette.
Update: So I discovered numerous services were sending data directly to Facebook, using some form of hashed identifier, presumably a hash of my contact info.
The two big ones being Amazon and Uber.
Anyway I've decided to switch to a dumb phone in the near future and just stop using the internet once I've found offline replacements for everything I currently use the internet for.
Other platforms only look for similar content to what you've already seen. They don't take novelty into account.
If you like one picture of a dog on Instagram it'll just show you more dogs and you get bored. Watch a few YouTube videos about one topic and the algorithm gets fixated on it.
YouTube is so bad now that if you use it to listen to music the autoplay gets into an infinite loop of songs that sound near identical, it's torture if you don't already know what you want to see/hear.
In short the usual algorithms are tailored to find similar content only, rather than finding novel content several degrees of separation away from what the user has expressed interest in.
We go for skills and manufacturing capacity & capability.
China has advanced so dramatically and the population so vast that they've essentially overtaken the West in nearly every category.
I think it was Tim Cook who said, when asked why the iPhone is made in China, that for every one American with the necessary engineering skills you could fill an entire football stadium with Chinese engineers.
We barely make anything ourselves in the West. At this point we're just shells of our former selves, totally dependent on China and to a lesser extent other countries.
Virtually everything has "Made in China" written on it, from your iPhone to that not-so-great random gadget you bought on Amazon.
Meanwhile we're perpetually distracted by inane nonsense fads/infighting and dimwitted celebrity bullshit.
The World is Made in China, we're just along for the ride.
Enzymes are proteins that accelerate chemical reactions.
Genetic engineering is already used to manufacture some chemicals by modifying the DNA of microbes to produce the necessary enzymes. The microbes then consume the precursor chemicals and synthesise the product.
Indeed every natural bioactive chemical is manufactured by proteins in the form of enzymes.
So the mRNA for the necessary enzymes could be given to a person, and their own cells would become short term chemical factories for their medication.
The problem is getting the cells to synthesise the right amount of a drug, and mRNA is quickly destroyed so would require repeated dosing just like regular drug administration. For something permanent CRISPR-Cas9 would be required to edit the actual DNA of the cells.
A DIY biohacker cured his lactose intolerance by engineering a virus to modify his cells to produce the lactase enzyme in his digestive tract. I think the results lasted several months in that case but could be wrong, may have been permanent. Video of the project on YouTube.
It's better to estimate the hours required, quote for those hours and agree a completion date in advance.
With time tracking you're inviting unnecessary scrutiny and failing to establish work boundaries that can leave the client with no sense of beginning and end. It also leaves you constantly multitasking and bookkeeping.
If a client is insisting on time tracking it's probably because they're paranoid about getting ripped off or needing the insight into what they're paying for.
Upfront estimation with deadline gives them the peace of mind they need, establishes the boundaries and frees you to get on with the job.
If you underestimate do better next time, if you overestimate then great have a margarita.
Some suckers will throw money at that if you give it a colourful website with plenty of vague promises that you never have to deliver.