I have found that the edge I get from coffee or loose from abstaining mostly comes back naturally after about a week.
It is the stay up late and medicate with coffee to cover culture which drives coffee sales for crap coffee.
Brightly lit screens and artificial lighting(and before that less problematic books) screw with out circadian rhythms and make work, play, and fidgeting an alternative to bedtime for both sleep and pleasure requiring a fix in the AM.
I like the taste of coffee, acquired though it is, I would be sad if my favorite drug were gone.
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[quote=āanon61221983, post:12, topic:62069, full:trueā]
But what if it was caffeine that disappeared, entirelyā¦ ?[/quote]
I find that to be a fairly frightening idea. The industrialized world would have to shut down for a week while we addicts went through withdrawal. Like many addicts, Iāve tried to quit from time to time, and I donāt have the willpower. And that from a guy who quit smoking cold turkey and beat a prescription opiate dependency.
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There is something called pure evil. Some also call it ādecafā.
ā¦and something that perfectly fits both today and the topicā¦
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I started drinking a lot of tea to deal with asthma, plain dizziness, etc. I have tried cutting back at times, with short-term success. But I havenāt had any improvement in my sensory processing issues, headaches, etc. after cutting back.
What coffee does to my body? There have never been any studies of how I choose to metabolize coffee.
Or how I choose not to metabolize mint. I tried looking up sources on why mint induces vomiting, but found a scatload of articles on how it relieves nausea in other people.
Or how my body chooses to fight off benadryl. I tried looking up sources on what could be involved in benadryl allergies, but found a scatload of articles assuming it would help treat anaphylaxis instead of induce it.
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Wait, is that the start of the dystopia or because my short story is a dumb ideaā¦
Thatās hypnotic, though, either way.
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Sure there was. It was at the same time that you did the study on memory-blocking drugs.
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I used to drink liters of Mountain Dew daily. A couple of years ago I was trying to lose some weight and started counting calories. Some days I was drinking over 2000 calories of Mountain Dew. That, along with the frequent headaches from a couple hours of withdrawal prompted me to quit cold turkey.
Itās been 25 months since I have had any caffeine and I donāt plan on changing that any time soon.
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not my mug, it is a small coffee pot. I go for the largest mug possible.
when iām at a hotel and they have the standard white mugs, iām like what is this madness, coffee shot glasses?
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Yeah, thatās pretty much why Iāve cut my coffee intake back to about 20% of what it used to be - I sort of developed a sensitivity to coffee (I say developed, but truthfully I earned that sensitivity)
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Apparently, the first thing that entered my mouth, besides Mamaās Milk, was coffee with milk and sugar. Over the years Iāve stopped adding sugar, and I can do it without milk, but thatās as far as I am willing go.
If the world ever runs out of coffee, I might have to take myself out of it, because thatās not a world I want to live in. For me the smell and taste of coffee make me feel like everything is gonna be alright. Gas station coffee is just for the caffeine to allow me to get to where the actual coffee is.
Besides, if coffee is extinct, thereās no way the rest of the place is not hugely fucked up.
Actually, I could live a better life with only decaf (but good tasting) coffee than I could with adequate caffeine that tastes like sadness.
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On the subject of caffeine, itās fun to observe how the reputation of espresso and of North American filter coffee are switched aroundā¦
Wherever you go, Espresso has a reputation of being much āstrongerā. Many Europeans just assume that American filter coffee can be drunk by the liter with no adverse effects. When I ordered a single espresso in a Canadian coffee shop close to a university after 5 pm, the waitress asked me whether I was going to spend a long night studying, her voice full of concern for this poor overworked student.
Butā¦ āone espressoā, when done right, is at most 40ml (1.35 oz) of strong coffee. Usually about 70mg of caffeine. āOne cup of coffeeā in the context of American filter coffee is a lot more caffeine. For Starbucks brewed coffee, serving sizes range from 8oz (236ml) at about 160mg all the way to 20oz (591ml) at 415mg of caffeine.
So, at up to four ācups of coffeeā (of the 70mg stuff) a day, I can still go cold turkey without noticing any withdrawal symptoms whenever the occasion arises (I know because it happens whenever I go on vacation in places without decent cafĆ©s).
And yet, I get to impress Americans with my supposed superhuman resistance to caffeine.
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A decaffeinated world might not be ALL badā¦
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Most drip coffee you get in a restaurant is not very strong. This is partially due to the type of drip pot and the type of coffee made in the homeland where a lot of immigrants came from, it is meant for farmer joe to be able to have 5 to 10 cups while chatting at the cafe and not become a jittery mess.
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Then there would be NO TEA, and the universe would cease to exist.
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Havenāt you played the Hitchhikerās Guide computer game? If so, youād know that itās possible to simultaneously have TEA and NO TEA.
