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The Coffee Junkie's Guide to Caffeine Addiction
- teuobk 18y agoWhat's the typical caffeinated-beverage consumption for a News.YC reader? I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but I'll down 4-6 cups of tea on a normal weekday.
- mlinsey 18y agoI usually stay away from caffeine entirely (occasionally a Coca-Cola but that's it) except when I really go into crunch mode, when I'll drink 2-3 Bawls or Starbucks Doubleshot Espresso cans to get through an all-night-and-into-the-morning marathon.
- tjpick 18y agosame amount of tea for me. About 2 coffees per week.
- silentbicycle 18y agoSame here, green or black. Sometimes coffee or diet pop, but not much, they make me jittery and moody. (For the record, green tea has a small amount of caffeine.) Tea, particularly green, also has Theanine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine), which smooths out the caffeine jitters. I'm pretty sure theanine is a big part of why green tea feels subjectively different in effect from coffee, even when drinking enough to counterbalance the lower caffeine content.
- aswanson 18y agoJust stopped drinking it 3 weeks ago.
- attack 18y agoSwitched to caffeine pills here. 1. Easier to keep intake from growing out of control. 2. Easier to keep caffeine levels steady since the pills take less time and effort than making more coffee and the dosage is very consistent. No unexpected crashes. 3. Teeth/mouth.
- whycombinator 18y agoHow much do you take?
- silentbicycle 18y ago"Teeth/mouth"?
- ajkirwin 18y agoPersonally? Anywhere from 4 to 6 Mt. Dews a day.
- jrockway 18y agoA coffee or two, sometimes tea as it gets later at night.
- rw 18y agoOne americano and 3 mugs of tea per day.
- elai 18y agoOne tea if I didn't sleep enough. Sometimes 2. A thermos or 2 of green tea (one teabag per thermos) for all nighters/cram sessions.
- coffeeaddicted 18y ago2 cups coffee to wake up in the morning and 2 cups to stay awake in the afternoon.Sometimes I replace it by tea. I'm still sleeping well in the night :-)
- Tichy 18y agoToo much... My goal is to quit, but while having to keep regular office hours it is very hard. That's why for my next contract I'll try to avoid "bodytime".
- ardit33 18y ago4-6 caffeine shots a day, with the least one close to midnight. If I don't have any, then I am feeling blue.
- ctingom 18y agoOne cup of coffee a day, average. Some days more.