Quitting Caffeine / Stimulants Support Thread

[Nickel Silver]

If you've been getting your caffeine through energy drinks instead of coffee, then it's the sugar that's been raping your brain, not the caffeine.

Eating too much sugar always makes me tired.

OP, just drink black coffee like a man.

 

[nycifer]

But i went cold turkey

Going cold turkey on anything, never works out. It has to be a process. You have to outline how you're to go about improving your health for the progress you want to see. It has to be gradual and something to work continually on.

My advice is to just hate it, hate caffeine. Treat it like it's a drug or an alcohol you never want to consume. If you hate something enough, you'd do anything not to deal with it.

Secondly and I don't know about you, but I've pounded monster javas, multiple mugs of coffee and other caffeine ventures that isn't energy drinks. And I still sometimes get 8 to even 12 hours of sleep (granted, on my off days when I have nothing going for me at all, then it's 8 hours for work days).

Besides, coffee is better and if you use creamer like I do, the calories don't build up as rapidly as each and every can of whatever energy drink you're having. I like to have flavor in my coffee. I only drink the MJ shit when I want a comfort drink.

Sounds like a self-management issue to me, as others have pointed out.

 

[Rango Dango]

i started drinking caffeine regularly again cuz of White Monster,

this nigga fell for the meme lmaooooo

 

[a-Lager]

this nigga fell for the meme lmaooooo

He cant resist the allure of having a fat, 7" White Monster in his mouth

 

[plastic Consumer]

hyped up on caffeine or meth or whatever.

>meth or caffeine
Have you guys ever noticed addicts try to compare their addiction to coffee to downplay their own?

If you're taking dopamine agonists like meth or weed, don't, dopamine is what makes things feel "rewarding" and addicting. You only get it from drugs and novel situations, if you increase dopamine you're more sensitive to that shit, its also why they give it to people who are depressed, when you have no enjoyment of things to the point eating doesn't feel rewarding, then dopamine agonists help with that. It also sometimes counterintuitively helps people eat less, because they can get their dopamine fulfillment elsewhere, but othertimes it just increases the enjoyment of their addiction.

Honestly this is like telling people with allergies not to take claritan occasionally because you took 5 pills of benadryl day and saw hatman.

 

[Jace on ice]

I'm down from like 6-7 cups a day to 2 in the morning and that's it.

 

[Angry Shoes]

sir

 

[kiwiburgerplanet]

Shit sleep, more anxiety, more frustration, more horny when i dont want to be horny.

Sounds like there is more going on. Caffeine doesn't cause anxiety, frustration, or hornyness

 

[Jacknife]

Coffeefaggots are similar to whinefaggots in the sense that they hide the reality of their addiction behind rituals and sophisticated periphery and fancy words.

 

[PetiteFeet]

And give up my delicious vietnamese coffee? Never.

If you have shit sleep, consider looking into your sleep hygiene instead, you absolute mongoloid.
No screentime for a minimum of an hour before you sleep. In fact, get all of your electronics out of your bedroom. You'll notice a difference instantly.
Try reading before you go to bed.
Change your bedsheets more frequently. Once a week if you're a real champion.
Your bedroom temperature could probably be taken down by a couple of degrees, but this is an individual thing and I can't tell you what the sweet spot is. Personally if it's too cold, I can't sleep. Others have the opposite problem.
Open a window once in a while, air out your home.
For a more natural sleep, you could try melatonin, camomile tea or valerian root supplements.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

If you're taking dopamine agonists like meth or weed, don't,

Weed isn't a dopamine agonist. Its effects are primarily due to the way the cannabinoids interact with the CB1 receptor. Cocaine is another dopamine agonist though.

Where it gets more dangerous is synthetic cannabinoids, because they oftentimes interact strongly with the CB2 receptor (unlike weed) which can put you into a coma or even kill you with too high a dose. This is intentional, these cannabinoids were developed for medical uses like anesthesia or pain relief.

And give up my delicious vietnamese coffee? Never.

All good advice, I would say for anyone who uses an e-reader like me to make sure it's on that "night mode" setting to minimize blue light.

Also, avoid taking melatonin too often or in too high of doses. You can develop a tolerance to it.

 

[Go Fast Boats Mojito]

If you have shit sleep, consider looking into your sleep hygiene

!!!

Get into a sleep routine, no electronics and/or bright screens before bedtime, seriously. Put your phone on a charger across the room, whatever ya gotta do.

As a supplement, kava oil (or in tea form) works wonders

 

[LikeAStone 2.0]

I used to get off shift from the firehouse and drink an entire Monster before I laid down to sleep. Live fast, die faster brother.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I like coffee.

 

[Foxgirl_Serviceman]

If you work a 15 hour graveyard shift at your local Ocean Oil Rig, then drink those 17 cups of espressos. But for the normies who genuinely want to quit caffeine, im here for you my brother. My sister. My non-binary jelly being. Over a year ago, I use to drink mugs of green tea like water. I decided to go cold turkey and suffered withdrawal for 2 weeks, but it was all worth it because i felt significantly less anxious, got deeper and stronger sleep, and didnt get bothered by things as much anymore. Shit felt better.
Now, i do still drink caffeine. when i really want caffeine that week, I drink 2 cups of green tea a day, but the ideal state of mind for me is complete sobriety. Also im caffeine sensitive and i do realize theres people out there who drink caffeine and it literally has zero effect on them. These people are mutants and i pretend they dont exist.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

I quit my caffeine dependency over a year ago, but recently i started drinking caffeine regularly again cuz of White Monster, and all my fucking old problems came back. Shit sleep, more anxiety, more frustration, more horny when i dont want to be horny. You people are sick on caffeine and you dont even know it. Its a cancer inflicting your heart and you consume it relentlessly. But i went cold turkey again and i felt some withdrawal which included migraines, lethargy, and frustration, but im back to normal.

oh look, another poster who doesn't know how to use Regular Everyday Thing with reasonable moderation and therefore thinks it's some kind of soul-destroying demon consuming the rest of humanity as well. projection? never heard of it!

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

The more I hear about other people's experiences with caffeine, the more I'm convinced that I'm part of the relatively small subset of the population (something like ~10%) that isn't very sensitive to it.

I stopped drinking coffee completely several months ago and it was no big deal - the lack of something to habitually sip on throughout the day was more annoying than the lack of caffeine.

 

[Adrian Dittmann]

The more I hear about other people's experiences with caffeine, the more I'm convinced that I'm part of the relatively small subset of the population (something like ~10%) that isn't very sensitive to it.

I stopped drinking coffee completely several months ago and it was no big deal - the lack of something to habitually sip on throughout the day was more annoying than the lack of caffeine.

Yeah, I never get the jitters or a caffeine rush or anything. I think it's the smell of it, and the routine of brewing my morning pot that helps wake me up more than any caffeine effect.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

Yeah, I never get the jitters or a caffeine rush or anything. I think it's the smell of it, and the routine of brewing my morning pot that helps wake me up more than any caffeine effect.

in my own personal canon - I have no idea plausible this actually is - coffee is one of those substances that humans have evolved around, and it's now baked into the genetic code of every human to some degree. that's what I tell myself when I'm standing in front of my coffee maker, waiting for it to finish, just marinating in the coffee smell like a fuckin pervert

 

[Foxgirl_Serviceman]

Drank 2 cups of coffee today. Honestly. Dead-ass. On God. It was good. I got shit done that I usually dont get done, like reading books roflmao, could you imagine. Actually reading books is UNFATHOMABLE to my dementia riddled brain, so thats awesome. But I cant frequently drink caffeine or stuff gets fucked, so I have to keep it on a leash.