I quit caffeine

Re:I quit caffeine by hunterb123 on Monday January 10, 2022 @01:42PM (#29879441)

Not really, I've done a lot of hard drugs, except heroin/opioids/benzos, and I'd say caffeine is the hardest to quit. Literally been on a 3 day binger awake and couldn't figure out why my head hurt, thought it was food, water, oh no whoops it was a caffeine withdrawal.

Everything else I can do on and off, some things it's been years, caffeine I've only quit once. Lapsed and haven't been able to again.

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Re:I quit caffeine by spacemadness on Monday January 10, 2022 @01:44PM (#29879494)

I was specifically thinking of heroin and friends which can have massive withdrawal symptoms and need plenty of external support to overcome. “all illicit” is too big an umbrella I agree. Change that to “some” instead “a lot”.

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Re:I quit caffeine by hunterb123 on Monday January 10, 2022 @01:45PM (#29879533)

Certainly, benzos and opioids are very addictive and the feedback cycle isn't your friend so you don't fuck with em.

That's not saying much about caffeine though, being slightly less addictive than heroin is not a high bar.

Compared to any other stimulants though, caffeine is the most addictive, with the worst withdraw, in my experience.

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Re:I quit caffeine by bagacrap on Monday January 10, 2022 @03:34PM (#29881887)

going cold turkey off benzos can literally kill you

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