Re:People Took Some Potassium and Lost Some Weight
by wrp on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:23AM
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Yeah, you must be doing it wrong. :-)
The appetite-suppressant effect of nicotine is enhanced by caffeine (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15955118/)
Conclusion: Caffeine added to nicotine chewing gum appears to amplify its attenuating effects on appetite and the combinations of 1-mg of nicotine with caffeine seem to be well tolerated.
BTW, I've found black tea to be not as effective as black coffee as an appetite suppressant.
Re:People Took Some Potassium and Lost Some Weight
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @09:55AM
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Thanks for the tips :).
> BTW, I've found black tea to be not as effective as black coffee as an appetite suppressant.
I wonder what the mechanism of action is for most people. For me, black coffee hardly does anything stimulation-wise, but is an excellent laxative, and half the time makes me feel generally unwell. I suppose these effects do suppress appetite.
I drink a lot of black tea and use nicotine gums, and my hunger is... enough to keep my weight way higher than I'd like. So either I'm doing it wrong - perhaps it needs to be actual coffee and cigarettes[0] - or... I should never stop, because my baseline hunger must be off the charts.
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[0] - Wouldn't be the first time people, including scientists, confuse tobacco (a processed product whose consumption involves smoke and complex chemical reactions releasing a lot of biologically active substances) with nicotine (a single chemical that is one of the many things you ingest when smoking).