Emily McDonald

You know, obviously we discussed the neuroscience of that and you get that tunnel vision, the cortisol increase, your nervous system's dysregulated.

And when your nervous system's dysregulated, your amygdala starts being overactive and the amygdala is the fear center of the brain.

And now your amygdala is now...

scanning your reality for potential threats to keep you safe so you can say that you're walking into this room right and let's say you're walking into a room to network with people and meets people or whatever it is but you're super anxious and stressed well now your brain might be scanning for potential threats like oh that person might you know say something to harm me or whatever the case may be and so your brain literally constructs reality differently when you're in that state as well and

So that's kind of one of the things that you touched on.

I mean, from the habit formation sort of perspective, which was the first thing that you kind of asked about in my book, actually, it's currently going through editing right now.

So who knows how this will hold up?

But I tell the story of, for me, I actually used to be addicted to nicotine.

So I very much started vaping when I was, I don't know, 16 or something, very young.

And

Everyone was doing it.

It was just being handed out.

Literally, my friend gave it to me for free.

So it was just one of those things.

But on this journey, I never cared to quit.

I never cared to.

There was all this, it's bad for your lungs.

It's bad for you, whatever.

Never cared to quit vaping nicotine.

It just wasn't something that I cared about.