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We're all on caffeine already and no one is clutching pearls over it. How is taking harder drugs any different other than in effectiveness?
by IIAOPSW 6y ago
We're all on caffeine already and no one is clutching pearls over it. How is taking harder drugs any different other than in effectiveness?
- lallysingh 6y agoCaffeine wears off quickly, and seems to be good for you. I go off cold turkey once in a while, and the worst I've ever gotten is a week of mild headaches.
- saagarjha 6y agoWhether caffeine is good for you or not seems to be largely inconclusive, similarly to the question of whether caffeine is bad for you.
- tayo42 6y agocaffeine can be bad for you. There's direct issues it causes like heartburn which will wear down your esophagus.
- nine_k 6y agoCaffeine forms an addiction in a few weeks, and requires increasing doses just to keep you normal. What's good for you are other parts of the coffee bean. I avoid taking caffeine with any regularity, let alone daily. This is why I can get a full kick from a cup when I need it.
- sdenton4 6y agoHmm, I've kept a pretty steady dose of coffee across years without needing such an increase over time. A day with zero coffee is, indeed, not fun. But we live in the future and coffee is really available everywhere always. And even if the supply chains crash, it'll be a bad week and then I'll be fine...
- dwighttk 6y agoHuh. I like a cup of coffee in the morning but I’ve never experienced the “I need a cup of coffee or it’s gonna be a long day” feeling people talk about. (Well now that I think of it I may have thought that a few times (in ~20years) but it was usually after a short night of sleep or something like that.)
- lallysingh 6y agoI don't have to increase dosing unless I let it mess up my sleep. Taking my last drink at the office and stopping for the rest of the day works.
- coldcode 6y agoI drink one cup in the morning, occasionally a second after lunch. Increasing doses only works up to a point, your brain has only so much capacity to support caffeine; anything beyond that just affects the rest of your body but does nothing to the brain.
- phobosanomaly 6y agoMuch like nicotine, the addiction seems to be highly dependent on the person. I can drink coffee for weeks and weeks, and the stop abruptly and suffer no ill effects. Same thing with oral nicotine pouches. I can use them for weeks and weeks, and then stop cold turkey and have zero craving or desire. I know people who do the same and the withdrawal absolutely wrecks them.
- colordrops 6y agoThere's a reason they are called "hard" drugs.
- justatdotin 6y agoyep, the people who use that term are trying to convince you of something.
- d0100 6y agoWhenever threads mention caffeine I am compelled to share that caffeine has no effect whatsoever on me. To my sadness, it feels like I'm excluded from a common universal community and performance advantage
- NOGDP 6y agoTry crack.
- mrlala 6y agoPretty much the same here.. I drink a lot of coffee just to have a hot drink, but I can drink coffee at night and it doesn't seem to do anything. Maybe a little, but I hardly notice.
- sn41 6y agoI had the same issue due to excessive coffee drinking. Stopping cold for 2-3 weeks helps to bring back some of the effectiveness later. But any regular dose even after this is rapidly tolerance-building.
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- tehlike 6y agoSame here, I imagine this might be due to me drinking coke zero in huge quantities, and that somehow making me indifferent to caffeine even when i am not drinking coke.
- stickfigure 6y agoCaffeine has a serious effect on me - it makes me jittery and screws up my sleep. I gave up caffeine in the late 80s - to my happiness, actually. I consider it a competitive advantage.
- carnitas 6y agoAs a counterpoint whenever I have caffeine I am maniacal focused on something and turn into an asshole for at least 12 hours. It warps me as a human.
- lm28469 6y agoTrue, I drink a beer a day so why not snort a line of coke instead, they're both drugs, right ? Or heroin for that matter, they're all the same thing obviously
- chrisseaton 6y agoNo job expects you to take caffeine though does it? (Except in the coffee industry maybe.)
- calvano915 6y agoIts a question of where the line is drawn. Some, or many perhaps, would prefer a world where they aren't forced to alter their brain chemistry to the degree that a powerful pharmaceutical does. Caffeine, while substantial, does not have this same degree of power, whether positive or negative. There are reasons why one is a controlled substance and the other freely available OTC.
- bagacrap 6y agothose reasons are primarily political
- ikurei 6y agoI've never seen any requirement, or even social pressure, to use caffeine at work. Plenty of people in all offices I've worked at didn't take coffee, or only very ocasionally. It was widespread, but no expected of you. I wouldn't mind some coleagues taking some drugs, as long as they didn't make them very antisocial or generally bad to be around. But I would very much mind an employer expecting me to take something.