I almost quit caffeine in one year

Re:I almost quit caffeine in one year by asdff on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:26PM (#25652048)

I found the same results when I kicked two separate nicotine addictions (one was chaw and cigarettes, the other ecigs). The ecig addiction was way more painful to go through. I suspect that's because you end up injesting quite a lot of nicotine when you can hit an e cig basically anywhere, and it doesn't make you feel nauseous like too much chewing tobacco or hoarse like too many cigarettes so you just keep hitting it.

I had splitting headaches and trouble sleeping for a week then it was done. Cold turkey is the way to quit nicotine imo. Patches, gum, ecig, etc, are all just ways to drag it out and spend more money on nicotine, with the side chance of still being addicted. Cigarettes aren't heroin. It's gonna suck but then suddenly it won't.

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Re:I almost quit caffeine in one year by eurasiantiger on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:45PM (#25652267)

Interesting. I’ve found both tobacco and coffee to be extremely addictive and habit-forming, as well as various other mixtures of caffeine and MAOIs (e.g. energy drinks bombed to hell and back with flavonoids).

Pure nicotine (ecigs) and pure caffeine, on the other hand, are much easier to keep in check or quit.

The craving to take a puff from an ecig is almost nonexistent compared to the massive drive to get cigarettes. I would walk miles for them just to light one up.

Same goes for energy drinks. They are addictive as hell, but the addiction is not caused by caffeine alone — rather, the massive interaction between monoamine oxidase inhibition and caffeine’s stimulant effects.

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Re:I almost quit caffeine in one year by asdff on Thursday January 07, 2021 @02:20AM (#25668190)

>The craving to take a puff from an ecig is almost nonexistent

It wasn't so much a craving, more that I would getting a headache if it started getting too long between sessions. Sometimes it would show up within a half hour.

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Re:I almost quit caffeine in one year by eurasiantiger on Sunday January 10, 2021 @05:49AM (#25713329)

Strange. I have never experienced that. Do you also drink coffee?

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Re:I almost quit caffeine in one year by Jermaine_Jabi on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:22PM (#25666890)

Thats funny, I always found quitting cigarettes way worse than ecigs, but I never tried the high impact nicotine salt versions.

I just attributed it to Big Tobacco finding clever ways to make the hit so much more satisfying in cigarettes and the mom and pop ecig blenders hadn't figure them out yet.

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