I Took the Drug Coffee

[Variform]

About 25 minutes ago I drank two cups of the drug coffee for the first time in about 14 years.

Now, 25 minutes later I am sweating. It is on my forehead and beside my nose. I feel different. Almost stoned. I think my pulse is higher, causing the asweating.

I did not expect it to be this serious. Some people drink many cups a day, like 2 in the morning 'to get going'. I understand what they mean now. Then at lunch another one or two, during work, maybe more. And at home after dinner, they drink another two or more. So at least 6 a day!

I can barely imagine the caffeine level in their blood. I am not sure I even like this. It is impacting on my brain. I almost feel slightly dizzy.

We call weed a drug, cocaine, heroine, psychedelics, MDMA, etc. But we do no longer consider coffee a drug but a food.

But I am telling you, it is a drug. Our societies fight wars on drugs.

But all our society runs on drugs. Make a graph, plot the day on the horizontal axes, plot the coffee and lunch breaks. And the mornings and evenings. In the same way a water company can show a graph of water use rising at lunch when people take bathroom breaks, you can plot a graph line showing coffee intake.

The curve will show caffeine spikes during breaks and in the morning and evening. It is a rhythm of drug use in the working environment. People will vehemently deny this, when you say this. But all of society has deep relationship with drugs. Our society runs on it. Without coffee, concentration and thus efficiency and productivity will drop. Profit margins will be less, production levels will fall to lower standards.

Every day the graph will look the same more or less, caffeine in blood spiking, lowering, spiking, lowering, several times a day. Our society is based on drugs.

We should not call it lunch break but 'drug break'. Without caffeine, some people cannot even get to work in time. And then during 'drug break' some people add soem choclate to the mix, which contains well over 30 different substances.

When I eat too much chocolate at once, I get the same sweating beside my nose. And on my forehead. Some people will take sugar in their coffee. Which is also psychoactive, we joke not to give children sugary candy because they will go rampaging around like ADHD kids. But during our 'drug break' at work we drink caffeine and add sugar, two drugs at once, if we eat candy too, it is three different drugs.

I don't even want to speculate what this does to your brain! Two cups of coffee and I feel dizzy, a sort of restless energy, I am sweating and I feel like I need to lie down.

My hands are sweaty now as well. I am sure if I continue to drink this my body will adapt to it and it won't be so bad. But my god people. Wtf!

 

[Ex-User (5841)]

If you've gone without it for 14 years, 2 cups at once is way too much. I've only been without it for a month and It'd be too much for me too.

Once upon a time I had an 8 cup/day tolerance. Never work in retail again.

 

[CrayCrayPoTayTay]

About 25 minutes ago I drank two cups of the drug coffee for the first time in about 14 years.

Now, 25 minutes later I am sweating. It is on my forehead and beside my nose. I feel different. Almost stoned. I think my pulse is higher, causing the asweating.

I did not expect it to be this serious. Some people drink many cups a day, like 2 in the morning 'to get going'. I understand what they mean now. Then at lunch another one or two, during work, maybe more. And at home after dinner, they drink another two or more. So at least 6 a day!

I can barely imagine the caffeine level in their blood. I am not sure I even like this. It is impacting on my brain. I almost feel slightly dizzy.

We call weed a drug, cocaine, heroine, psychedelics, MDMA, etc. But we do no longer consider coffee a drug but a food.

But I am telling you, it is a drug. Our societies fight wars on drugs.

But all our society runs on drugs. Make a graph, plot the day on the horizontal axes, plot the coffee and lunch breaks. And the mornings and evenings. In the same way a water company can show a graph of water use rising at lunch when people take bathroom breaks, you can plot a graph line showing coffee intake.

The curve will show caffeine spikes during breaks and in the morning and evening. It is a rhythm of drug use in the working environment. People will vehemently deny this, when you say this. But all of society has deep relationship with drugs. Our society runs on it. Without coffee, concentration and thus efficiency and productivity will drop. Profit margins will be less, production levels will fall to lower standards.

Every day the graph will look the same more or less, caffeine in blood spiking, lowering, spiking, lowering, several times a day. Our society is based on drugs.

We should not call it lunch break but 'drug break'. Without caffeine, some people cannot even get to work in time. And then during 'drug break' some people add soem choclate to the mix, which contains well over 30 different substances.

When I eat too much chocolate at once, I get the same sweating beside my nose. And on my forehead. Some people will take sugar in their coffee. Which is also psychoactive, we joke not to give children sugary candy because they will go rampaging around like ADHD kids. But during our 'drug break' at work we drink caffeine and add sugar, two drugs at once, if we eat candy too, it is three different drugs.

I don't even want to speculate what this does to your brain! Two cups of coffee and I feel dizzy, a sort of restless energy, I am sweating and I feel like I need to lie down.

My hands are sweaty now as well. I am sure if I continue to drink this my body will adapt to it and it won't be so bad. But my god people. Wtf!

Hahaha, awesome. Welcome back, is in order?

The only reason for my response here is to provide you occupational enlightenment. I work in the field of sleep and neurological medicine, and can assure you this society is one afflicted with sleep disorders (88 to be approximate). The best proverbial band-aid for a broken arm, is caffeine. You're touching on many of the overtones of a society here (path of least resistance, quick solutions and immediate gratification) that is afflicted with illness. Most commercials are for depression medications (sleep deprivation, lack of sleep quality/quantity), energy drinks like Red Bull and 5-Hour (excessive daytime somnolence usually secondary to snoring, obstructive sleep apnea etc.) Energy Drink, new mattresses, new diets, new lifestyles that lend themselves to energy, ADD and ADHD (most night owls, especially children, that have to wake up "early" and go to school have missed out on many of the short-term memory creating processes, and have experienced negative impacts on the processes that monitor focus, alertness and mood) is incredibly rampant as well. The solution to many of man's problems that occur during the day, are best tended to by the committee of sleep; quality of sleep is of paramount importance to everything. There are far too many other aspects of life that are negatively impacted by the many disorders of sleep, the one provided is anything but comprehensive.

It is absolutely a drug, and a mind-altering one (for which reason many Mormons and literal Bible interpreters abstain from the consumption thereof) that has many positive impacts and is naturally found in many substances. I classify this drug, however, along with the other "naturally occurring" ones, such as marijuana. A discussion about the stigma regarding the illegalization (uh, is that a word?) of marijuana is a difficult one to expound upon, since I live in Colorado and am enjoying the progressive wave towards enlightened freedoms.

 

[Cherry Cola]

mix cocoa powder and coffee 50/50, get ya jacked up on caffeine and theobromine for ultimate prowess

 

[Ex-User (8886)]

I rarely drink coffe, but it really doesn't work on me. I can take 400 mg of caffeine (1 liter of coffee) and I would feel only tired. With smaller doses, feel nothing, with larger - overdose symptoms : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Main_symptoms_of_Caffeine_overdose.svg

 

[redbaron]

Stimulants make my body/mind go crazy. Depressants don't really do anything. Alcohol and marijuana don't really do anything for me. Coffee/nicotine makes me bounce off walls and/or get light-headed and jittery.

Then there's that time I tried meth. There were no survivors.

 

[Cherry Cola]

I rarely drink coffe, but it really doesn't work on me. I can take 400 mg of caffeine (1 liter of coffee) and I would feel only tired. With smaller doses, feel nothing, with larger - overdose symptoms : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Main_symptoms_of_Caffeine_overdose.svg

I am skeptic, so many people like to say they don't feel this or that drug. But how would their brains and bodies be different? :S

 

[Latte]

I am skeptic, so many people like to say they don't feel this or that drug. But how would their brains and bodies be different? :S

Reptilians


I tend to get calmer with cofi. It tends to stimulate parts of mind that tend to slumber in me, but when active more or less grounds the rest of the mind... which is normally in hyper fucking yolotrain megatron laser xtreme u can't derail this stress u w0t m8 not even close to offside isn't even a ruru don't count I'm the count sesame dat street with the linen seeds of revolution dance dance if you wanna mode.


@OP

Yeah, it's definitely a pretty strong cognitive altering substance. I'd put it on par with many prescription drugs and far beyond most sold nootropics in terms of my own subjective personal anecdotal [insert further disclaimers] measurement of what the regularly imbibed doses let the bodies hit the floor.

 

[Minuend]

Back in uni I could drink half a litre coffee a day whilst studying and not notice anything. I mostly drank it just to have something warm to drink. I did become immensely tired later that day, though, so it obviously had some effect beyond what I could notice.

But at that time I also had bad digestion, and since that comes with poor nutrient absorption, I speculate whether I perhaps absorbed caffeine badly as well.

Well, I also have a generally bad body awareness and just don't always notice how well or bad my body is doing.

I did drink espresso more recently and it gave me a content/ happy kind of feel. Tat was nice

 

[Base groove]

Until three-four months ago I had a pot every day. As well as pot. Each morning, it was a pot of coffee, and pot.

I never bothered having it later in the day.

In university (5-9 years ago), I would drink it to stay up studying but wasn't as religious about having it in the morning as I would have to buy it when I lived in the dorms. As soon as I had my own place with a coffee pot I began the pot-a-day habit.

I also quit smoking three years ago, and snus, seven years ago; I had a pack/tin a day habit of that shit as well.

I suppose if you add caffeine, junk food, marijuana, two forms of tobacco, alcohol and sleep deprivation together, you get an idiot.

I'm rambling.

I have switched to tea now, every morning. Not sure if it's any better for me.

 

[PmjPmj]

I had whittled my way down from ~ 10 cups per day to 3 cups a day - two normal, one decaff. It was hard going at first; I went cold turkey for three days and damn near died (exaggeration) but after cutting it out properly, I started to feel much better.

Then fatherhood.

... I'm back to 5 cups a day minimum

 

[nanook]

the highest cost of coffee is perhaps loosing a stable circadian rhythm (it becomes longer than 24 hours) and loosing a subtle sensitivity for patient soulful (call it right brained) self experience.

it's not doing anything positive on the side of task oriented consciousness, since we develop a tolerance. tolerance can partially limit that loss of subtle sensitivity, but the circadian rhythm will stay deranged.

coffee is advertised to help with alzheimer's, but i believe this advertisement has the purpose of distracting from the opposite effect. caffeine makes it difficult to store new memories to begin with, especially since subtle and rich aspects of life are not even fully experienced in the first place, when the brain states is biased towards superficial task orientation. and a whole paradigm of matrix agents wants you to believe that tasks are all that matters. explain that to your girlfriend, if you can't remember the emotional subtleties of an experience you had together three months ago. you are much less likely to remember dreams, if you are on caffeine. and whatever positive antioxidant effect coffee may have is outdone by the toxic qualities of most coffee.

caffeine is also said to have positive effects on blood sugar, but this is also a lie. for small periods of time, coffee can compensate for the blood sugar issues caused by high fat consumption. people who load so much fat into their system, that their insulin sensitivity is permanently compromised, will attempt to replace whole meals (breakfast, typically) with caffeine, so their blood sugar is raised through the effect, but not raised too much, as it would be, by one of their typical fatty meals (tip: dairy deranges blood sugar as well). but if you look at the big picture, caffeine deranges blood sugar management overall. it's obvious if you eat high carb, low fat plant based food. in this scenario your blood sugar management is naturally perfect. then add a cup of coffee or even green tee and experience the peak and crash. theobromine (cocoa) is much worse for blood sugar.


caffeine isn't a feeling, only being jittery from overdose is. and blood sugar issues are. and you can sense the effect of tight blood vessels, in the nose for example, when you have withdrawal.

your physical health, the dose and the tolerance will determine how badly you get the jitters and other symptoms.

you may observe a boost in mental performance, but only if you have no tolerance.

if you have tolerance, you have withdrawal symptoms without coffee and coffee restores normal functioning. in withdrawal you feel like a zombie, dim whit, can't enjoy anything, limited perception, everything seems gray and you are overwhelmed by stressing sensory stimulus. a lack of blood or oxygen in the brain.

caffeine is advertised by the irrational scientism fanboys who would previously advertise nicotine for pregnant women, animal products for anabolic effects (cancer growth, actually) and who won't get tired of giving radiation poisoning to sick people.

 

[Ex-User (8886)]

I am skeptic, so many people like to say they don't feel this or that drug. But how would their brains and bodies be different? :S

Ok, but I really don't feel and anything special, even if it change my brain and body.

 

[Base groove]

Ok, but I really don't feel and anything special, even if it change my brain and body.

So you pass the introvert test.

 

[Jennywocky]

mix cocoa powder and coffee 50/50, get ya jacked up on caffeine and theobromine for ultimate prowess

Really? Water down your coffee with cocoa? Are you a StarBucks Frappacin'er too?


CCPTT: Thanks for your post.

 

[Latte]

Really? Water down your coffee with cocoa? Are you a StarBucks Frappacin'er too?


CCPTT: Thanks for your post.

"water down"... what?D:
Are you assuming one of those sugar>powdered milk>cocoa powder mixes?
'Cause pure ground cocoa is wicked rough dark beastly eats your heart and elevates it to dark fumy godhood.

 

[Jennywocky]

"water down"... what?D:
Are you assuming one of those sugar>powdered milk>cocoa powder mixes?
'Cause pure ground cocoa is wicked rough dark beastly eats your heart and elevates it to dark fumy godhood.

I like my coffee almost unadulterated -- just a dallop of cream to make it dark dark brown vs pure black.
(Wait, it might be a pointless battle to argue this with someone named "Latte"... durrrrrr)

I will do pure ground cocoa snorts with you in the bathroom, though, if you can vouch that it's 100% and uncut.

[Unfortunately, all I typically run across in the stores here is that fake crap mix stuff.]

 

[Ex-User (8886)]

Stimulants make my body/mind go crazy. Depressants don't really do anything. Alcohol and marijuana don't really do anything for me. Coffee/nicotine makes me bounce off walls and/or get light-headed and jittery.

Then there's that time I tried meth. There were no survivors.

Are you extroverted?

 

[Polaris]

*peers at Jenny and Latte lurking in the toilet cubicle*

*glomps down whole nutmeg*

Spoiler

The reason nutmeg doesn't get eggnog-drinkers high is because one must consume several grams of it in order to feel any psychoactive effects. There is a dosage threshold based on quantity, metabolism, and body weight that causes nutmeg to cease being a spice and enter the realm of being a drug. Like other deliriants, the effects of nutmeg take several hours to peak. Nutmeg is one of the most bizarre psychoactive drugs in that it often takes up to six hours for an individual to even begin feeling minimal effects of the drug. Effects can range anywhere from a mild high or stoned feeling similar to marijuana coupled with alcohol to a full-blown deliriant experience with auditory and visual hallucinations, closed-eye visuals, and shifts in perception. Because of its efficacy to produce a cheap and legal high, nutmeg is most often used by people who are unable to obtain illicit drugs or by prisoners who have access to it in kitchens.

 

[Latte]

I like my coffee almost unadulterated -- just a dallop of cream to make it dark dark brown vs pure black.
(Wait, it might be a pointless battle to argue this with someone named "Latte"... durrrrrr)

I will do pure ground cocoa snorts with you in the bathroom, though, if you can vouch that it's 100% and uncut.

[Unfortunately, all I typically run across in the stores here is that fake crap mix stuff.]

Cream is blasphemy! Exterminate!

I am actually lactose intolerant.

Come to think of it I probably enjoy cocoa + coffee as cocoa with coffee rather than coffee with cocoa.

No matter, I would totally you up on a snort battle. For realz. B-b-bring it on.


Need to try nutmeg now D:

And take back up fennel habit.

 

[Variform]

Ok, but I really don't feel and anything special, even if it change my brain and body.

I can't remember having had a strong effect when I started drinking coffee as a teen. I don't remember when I drank it...16 onward? I dunno. I can't remember to have had this rush.

I feel a slight headache now. The 'trip' lasted 4 hours or so. It didn't seem to make me wanna do stuff, which was my hope.

Reading nanook on all the side effects, I wonder if I should make this into a habit.

 

[Pizzabeak]

Myristicin sucks but it might be worth trying just to see if your body reacts interesting enough to it... One, it is disgusting and generally takes a large amount, two it takes 9 hours just to start feeling anything remotely possible.. Might even fall asleep right before it kicks in, although you might get some weak closed eye visuals that you might not even attribute to the nutmeg. The visuals you get the first 3 times you smoke weed are better. The whole time you'll be burping, and everytime you burp the awful taste comes back up. I've yet to try an actual freshly ground nutmeg though as all I've had was the pre packaged stuff but some reports make it sound promising, not sure how desperate/eager one has to be though. *smokes salvia extract since it's legal, goes to the edge of some place for five minutes, comes back, five more minutes of residuals, back to base x*

Coffee..? Caffeine? I smoked weed the other day and all it did was make it sound like everyone was talking about me for three hours

 

[redbaron]

Are you extroverted?

Introverted.

 

[Double_V]

mix cocoa powder and coffee 50/50, get ya jacked up on caffeine and theobromine for ultimate prowess

Oh. Thank you, I've made mental note of this.

And as to the op, I am doing the exact opposite. I've ditched the coffee and am drinking warm water with lemon juice. My body can't take anymore caffine, it's time to relax.

 

[nanook]

you can add some curcuma to warm water with lemon. curcuma is very healthy, according to studies.

you can quit caffeine, by mixing green or black tea into this lemon water.

use less and less tea every time. the taste will stay pleasing, due to lemon. you can add brown sugar, if you need a kick, if you are used to coffee with sugar.


i don't recommend too much of this lemon stuff, water is best, but occasionally it's nice to have something warm and different. especially when you are still used to having different kicks all of the time.

btw, green tea is as bad as coffee, if you are not used to it. i just had it three days ago, and it gave me very bad jitters. i'm so glad i'm over caffeine, and my circadian rhythm is rock solid.

 

[Ex-User (5841)]

*peers at Jenny and Latte lurking in the toilet cubicle*

*glomps down whole nutmeg*

Spoiler

The reason nutmeg doesn't get eggnog-drinkers high is because one must consume several grams of it in order to feel any psychoactive effects. There is a dosage threshold based on quantity, metabolism, and body weight that causes nutmeg to cease being a spice and enter the realm of being a drug. Like other deliriants, the effects of nutmeg take several hours to peak. Nutmeg is one of the most bizarre psychoactive drugs in that it often takes up to six hours for an individual to even begin feeling minimal effects of the drug. Effects can range anywhere from a mild high or stoned feeling similar to marijuana coupled with alcohol to a full-blown deliriant experience with auditory and visual hallucinations, closed-eye visuals, and shifts in perception. Because of its efficacy to produce a cheap and legal high, nutmeg is most often used by people who are unable to obtain illicit drugs or by prisoners who have access to it in kitchens.

Nutmeg also has reverse tolerance, iirc.

 

[Affinity]

I feel a slight headache now. The 'trip' lasted 4 hours or so. It didn't seem to make me wanna do stuff, which was my hope.

Taper down your dosage. Like mentioned 2 cups is way too much after a 14 year hiatus, especially if it's brewed on the strong end which contains about 100mg of caffeine per cup. You were probably feeling the symptoms borderline of caffeine overdose as opposed to the euphoric effects otherwise. And it sounds like you're just pounding them too, take it slow and enjoy it.

 

[kris]

I understand caffein is a drug perfectly well; the amounts I consume just don't happen to concern me. I experience minor withdrawal symptoms (mild headaches) if I've been drinking coffee quite regularly, and I have minor cravings, but neither are appreciably significant. I recognize this is akin to addiction or perhaps the foundation of addiction, but the degree of these symptoms seems to be too minor to qualify as actual addiction.

 

[TBerg]

How much nutmeg for a pleasant diversion?

 

[Double_V]

you can add some curcuma to warm water with lemon. curcuma is very healthy, according to studies.

Thanks. I'll try it.

 

[TBerg]

Another thing: If you want to give up coffee after being addicted to it (as I was since I was about fourteen), then you might consider using green tea (which has about a quarter the caffeine of coffee) as a substitute until, and if, you want to give up caffeine entirely. I can tell you that it has tapered off my temperament and has allowed me actually to sleep at night. I love everything about coffee, except for its detrimental effects on my nervous system.

What's everyone's favorite roast and manner of brewing coffee? I like medium-dark, blended, made straight in a regular cooking pot, after having ground it as powdery as possible. Delicious.

 

[Pizzabeak]

How much nutmeg for a pleasant diversion?

Just google it, but more than a typical amount that you'd use as an ingredient, obviously. Too much nutmeg or cinnamon can easily drastically alter/ruin the taste, that being said like three full spoonfuls. If in doubt, five. Then just wait. Most of it will probably be placebo.
Also, go ahead and get a fresh nutmeg and grind it up yourself. Avoid the prepackaged shit, it tastes awful and is probably why a lot of people report disappointment. If you want to be particular you can go ahead and weigh it out; etc

 

[TBerg]

I ground up a small nut and put it in my mouth and washed it down with water like a half hour ago. It might be placebo, but it kind of reminds me of Xanax without the bad side effects.

 

[Pizzabeak]

I don't think that really happened

 

[doncarlzone]

Fascinating, I never had a cup of coffee. Now consider all of the behavioral dopamine addictions we have as well. Our future generations will not be characterized by what they do, but what they don't do.

 

[TBerg]

I have my eyes set on this dank shit:

My grandma showed me how, and I haven't done it any other way since.

 

[kris]

What's everyone's favorite roast and manner of brewing coffee?

Call me dull, but I prefer to stick with a good ol' fashioned orange mocha frappuccino.

Failing that, I like variety. I associate a lot of different moods and experiences with hot beverages. I have fond memories of wandering through empty midnight school halls in the midst of winter, sipping wretched, scalding bean water dispensed from heartless boxy machines into waxy paper cups. Memories of splitting a pot of Turkish coffee for the first time with a close friend. Memories of aimless nights in my youth milking free refills of drip coffee long past the point where café employees started throwing dark looks our way. Memories of countless lazy afternoons slowly draining espresso based drinks over meandering conversations or fluff novels. Memories of Tim Horton's even.

There are others, but no point going on. I like the associations more than the drink at times.

At home I'm not too picky. I drink pre-ground drip through a micro-filter, usually a medium roast of varying blends. I know what I enjoy, but I'm not a connoisseur and I'm not finicky.

There was a point where my brother was spending very little money, and he switched to instant to keep costs low. It was a crack up. Between the two of us, he's more into coffee, so he must have really wanted to save. For his birthday I bought some kopi luwak arabica. Overpriced though it is, the whole civet thing isn't just an eccentric excuse to overspend as far as I can tell. Drinking it black (which I normally don't do), there was full flavour but almost no bitterness.

The next closest to that was coffee I had in Ecuador recently. It was from a small farm we were visiting, roasted over open flame in front of us (no clue if that improves flavour, but it looked cool), and brewed on the spot. It was a touch harsher than the kopi luwak, but still minimal bitterness and nice rich flavour when taken black. I bought a bunch to bring home at the time, but I ended up getting a bit drunk shortly after and absent-mindedly left it somewhere. The same place made alcohol distilled from cane sugar, and I underestimated how hard it would hit me on an empty stomach.

 

[Variform]

I had one cup today. After a walk in the woods I was dead tired. I went to bed but can't really sleep in the afternoon. I decided to try one cup. The effect was less severe, so thow two yesterday were too much.

I feel slightly more woken up. So maybe the caffeine did push me out of the tired zone a bit.

Is it not fun to 'experiment with drugs'?

 

[Pizzabeak]

What's interesting is after ejaculation the supposed "neurotransmitters" that get released and have an influence on one's mood and perhaps decision making

 

[Affinity]

What's everyone's favorite roast and manner of brewing coffee? I like medium-dark, blended, made straight in a regular cooking pot, after having ground it as powdery as possible. Delicious.

Medium roast of some nice beans ran through a burr grinder and strained with a french press.

 

[Pyropyro]

Coffee should be consumed like so:



Anyways, I'm one of those people that need two cups of black coffee in the morning.

 

[Nick]

If I have to take caffeine(powder form, 150-300mg), I take it with l-theanine(powder 200-300mg).
Being lactose intolerant too, I stay away from milk and drinking coffee black ain't too much fun.

Fine tuning the l-theanine to your body is something you might want to try, too much and it'll make you sleepy with the caffeine, too little*(lower than 1:1), and it won't do much.

Caffeine = energy/focus/alertness
l-theanine = No overstimulation/jitteriness/negative caffeine related feelings.


(two powders generally picked out of their tubs (estimated dosage by eye) with my knife and then scraped onto my tongue, washed down with water after I rinse my mouth with the gulp of water. Caffeine is not too pleasant, but l-theanine is pretty sweet.)

 

[Affinity]

Being lactose intolerant too, I stay away from milk and drinking coffee black ain't too much fun.

Try non-dairy creamer, soy creamer, coconut creamer, or even almond milk.

 

[Nick]

Try non-dairy creamer, soy creamer, coconut creamer, or even almond milk.

Yeah I have, us INTPs like variety, at least at first, I've even tried the york peppermint patty one.

But I get my daily stimulants in a different fashion, only kickstarting me with 150mg of caffeine (powder).

 

[Variform]

How long does it take to get used to caffeine?

 

[Ex-User (5841)]

Depends on the amount. Probably a 2-3 weeks per level, wherein each level = 1 cup per day, depending on the person. It's probably ultimately a logistic curve though. Level 10 isn't that much different from level 6.

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Is there any benefit/loss x>1? I don't drink and don't intend to, but if it is in some way superior to tea, then it could be considered. It tends to be awkward constantly refusing all the people offering me coffee as if it was a standard.

 

[Variform]

I am using two large cups or small mugs a day. Why is a 'mug' also an attack in the street?

The effect after 3 days is already not so bad anymore.Is it three days? My sense of time is inferior.

 

[nanook]

*cringes*

 

[AngelOne]

I am totally addicted to coffee: I have it fresh ground every morning with some sweetener and condensed milk. But I can stop anytime I want to. Really I can. I just don't want to stop right now.

Caffeine is a strange drug... one of the best things about it is that it enhances the effects of pain medication.