I worked with someone who would bring 4 cans of monster to work every day, but he told me he was essentially addicted. He said he’d get pounding headaches if he didnt drink them now. Its probably not all that different from a cocaine habit.
Caffeine habits are very real, and holy shit, that’s like 6-7 coffees a day. If he went cold turkey, it would be a week of hell at home, vomiting from the migranes.
When I went off caffeine, it took me down with 3 days of flu like symptoms and headaches. Grouchy asshole is an understatement. I was drinking 2 coffees a day, I can’t imagine.
it’s just caffeine, i’ll never understand why people can’t just buy a bottle of caffeine pills and get the precise amount they want, it would let him slowly decrease the amount until he isn’t dependent any more.
i mean it’s caffeine, not nicotine, and even with nicotine a good amount of people manage to taper down usage. You don’t get addicted to caffeine, you get dependent, which is much easier to handle.
There isn’t much of a difference between addiction and dependence, if any. Some find abstinence is more successful than tapering, but it really depends on the person. Tapering isn’t as simple as you might think either, many fail due to incorrect methodology rather than willpower.
coffeine makes me sleepy so energy drinks only give me placebo and it doesn’t matter that coffeine barely affects me, could not care less about the caffeine, but
one can usually has an entire day’s maxiumum amount of sugar for an adult in it, that is an insane amout to drinking in an hour or so. and that’s not to even mention that whatever they put in them seems to enjoy making kidney stones!
those things should not be a regular part of anyone’s diet
The amount of people absolutely POUNDING several event drinks a day is astounding.
I have a heart condition and couldn’t drink them if I wanted to, without dying, so they don’t believe when I say it’s bad for them.
Yeah, WTF is up with this? The people that will drink 3 or 4 cans of Monster a day? JFC, that shit’ll kill you, man!
I worked with someone who would bring 4 cans of monster to work every day, but he told me he was essentially addicted. He said he’d get pounding headaches if he didnt drink them now. Its probably not all that different from a cocaine habit.
Caffeine habits are very real, and holy shit, that’s like 6-7 coffees a day. If he went cold turkey, it would be a week of hell at home, vomiting from the migranes.
I think knowing him made me reframe how I view caffeine. I treat it as a potent drug and it seems to affect me that way now, so I barely use it.
When I went off caffeine, it took me down with 3 days of flu like symptoms and headaches. Grouchy asshole is an understatement. I was drinking 2 coffees a day, I can’t imagine.
it’s just caffeine, i’ll never understand why people can’t just buy a bottle of caffeine pills and get the precise amount they want, it would let him slowly decrease the amount until he isn’t dependent any more.
Its really hard to be in charge of your own taper, self control is usually lacking in substance abuse situations.
i mean it’s caffeine, not nicotine, and even with nicotine a good amount of people manage to taper down usage. You don’t get addicted to caffeine, you get dependent, which is much easier to handle.
There isn’t much of a difference between addiction and dependence, if any. Some find abstinence is more successful than tapering, but it really depends on the person. Tapering isn’t as simple as you might think either, many fail due to incorrect methodology rather than willpower.
I’m failing to see a downside
Tastes better than cigarettes shrugs
coffeine makes me sleepy so energy drinks only give me placebo and it doesn’t matter that coffeine barely affects me, could not care less about the caffeine, but
one can usually has an entire day’s maxiumum amount of sugar for an adult in it, that is an insane amout to drinking in an hour or so. and that’s not to even mention that whatever they put in them seems to enjoy making kidney stones!
those things should not be a regular part of anyone’s diet