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Aw jeez seriously? Caffeine pills are helping me kick my Dew habit. I suppose if the pills go behind the counter I can just get a kilo of the lab-grade powder

Aw jeez seriously? Caffeine pills are helping me kick my Dew habit. I suppose if the pills go behind the counter I can just get a kilo of the lab-grade powder and portion it out myself... that would actually make it easier than trying to break the pills in half to taper the dose.

WorldMaker 6y ago
Everything I've read suggests you would be much better off using black coffee to wean from a soda habit, especially if you don't like the taste of black coffee (because it might just wean you off caffeine altogether). The ritual of brewing a cup of coffee (even as simplified as it has gotten with modern single cup machines) is a useful slowdown to measure your doses by. Also, it's an easier switch than "cold turkey" from all the sugars of soda if you do want to cheat and not go straight to black coffee but start with sugars/creamers and work your way towards black as you acquire more of a taste for it. (ETA: And you can progress to black tea then red/green/white easily as a way to cut caffeine in stages. Anyway, good luck trying to break the Dew habit, I sympathize.)
- xyzzy_plugh 6y ago
  > Everything I've read suggests you would be much better off using black coffee to wean from a soda habit, especially if you don't like the taste of black coffee (because it might just wean you off caffeine altogether). The ritual of brewing a cup of coffee (even as simplified as it has gotten with modern single cup machines) is a useful slowdown to measure your doses by. I find this funny. I don't have a soda habit (I do not enjoy drinking it regularly, but a couple times a month, maybe, is nice) but I drink a lot of black coffee! I love the taste, and even though I grind beans on a per-cup basis, and my kettle takes a while to get hot, and there is some cleanup involved, it doesn't stop me whatsoever. If I didn't like the taste, and needed milk/sugar, maybe things would be a different story...
lostgame 6y ago
>> Aw jeez seriously? Caffeine pills are helping me kick my Dew habit. Not experienced; but isn't that like taking amphetamines to kick a cocaine habit? :/
- myself248 6y ago
  The pop is caffeine + sugar + flavor So I'm replacing it with a caffeine pill and flavored water, to get the sugar calories out. Then later I'll try to reduce the caffeine dose, and/or go to plain tap water.
  - mrguyorama 6y ago
    A caffeine pill is way too much caffeine. A 24oz bottle of dew has like 50mg of caffeine compared to something usually closer to 200mg in those pills. Consider normal tea, or my SO just recently accidentally found caffeinated sparkling water, which exists somehow
    - myself248 6y ago
      I've got 100mg pills, and dew is 54mg per 12oz can, so one pill replaces two cans, that's great.

WorldMaker 6y ago

Everything I've read suggests you would be much better off using black coffee to wean from a soda habit, especially if you don't like the taste of black coffee (because it might just wean you off caffeine altogether). The ritual of brewing a cup of coffee (even as simplified as it has gotten with modern single cup machines) is a useful slowdown to measure your doses by. Also, it's an easier switch than "cold turkey" from all the sugars of soda if you do want to cheat and not go straight to black coffee but start with sugars/creamers and work your way towards black as you acquire more of a taste for it. (ETA: And you can progress to black tea then red/green/white easily as a way to cut caffeine in stages. Anyway, good luck trying to break the Dew habit, I sympathize.)

xyzzy_plugh 6y ago
> Everything I've read suggests you would be much better off using black coffee to wean from a soda habit, especially if you don't like the taste of black coffee (because it might just wean you off caffeine altogether). The ritual of brewing a cup of coffee (even as simplified as it has gotten with modern single cup machines) is a useful slowdown to measure your doses by. I find this funny. I don't have a soda habit (I do not enjoy drinking it regularly, but a couple times a month, maybe, is nice) but I drink a lot of black coffee! I love the taste, and even though I grind beans on a per-cup basis, and my kettle takes a while to get hot, and there is some cleanup involved, it doesn't stop me whatsoever. If I didn't like the taste, and needed milk/sugar, maybe things would be a different story...

lostgame 6y ago

>> Aw jeez seriously? Caffeine pills are helping me kick my Dew habit. Not experienced; but isn't that like taking amphetamines to kick a cocaine habit? :/

myself248 6y ago
The pop is caffeine + sugar + flavor So I'm replacing it with a caffeine pill and flavored water, to get the sugar calories out. Then later I'll try to reduce the caffeine dose, and/or go to plain tap water.
- mrguyorama 6y ago
  A caffeine pill is way too much caffeine. A 24oz bottle of dew has like 50mg of caffeine compared to something usually closer to 200mg in those pills. Consider normal tea, or my SO just recently accidentally found caffeinated sparkling water, which exists somehow
  - myself248 6y ago
    I've got 100mg pills, and dew is 54mg per 12oz can, so one pill replaces two cans, that's great.