I almost quit caffeine in one year

Re:I almost quit caffeine in one year by mike_h on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @12:49PM (#25648398)

This is a good point. I didn’t want to mention it since I’d only ever seen internet claims, but you prompted me to do a new quick search and it’s true:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16139309/

Apparently tobacco is so hard to quit not just because of the nicotine, but because of the MAOIs. Maybe coffee is the same. Every time I’ve quit caffeine, I’ve kept up decaf.

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Re:I almost quit caffeine in one year by eurasiantiger on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:44PM (#25651560)

It would make sense that coffee would be similar. ”Keeping up decaf” is eerily similar to the results of this study:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-010-1810-2

The major finding here is that abstinent smokers preferred smoking denicotinized cigarettes over pushing a button to receive nicotine intravenously; i.e. ”keeping up denic”.

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Re:I almost quit caffeine in one year by mike_h on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @07:48PM (#25653451)

Eerie indeed. Time to rethink my free will.

It’s interesting, that study was 10 years ago. I haven’t heard of non-nicotine compounds becoming a part of the therapy since then. But what also happened in those 10 years was nicotine vaporizers took off, and a lot of people traded smoking for those. Wonder what the study would have found if it had nicotine puffs in addition to de-nic tobacco and sham puffs.

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