Are you addicted to caffeine?

Are you addicted?

  • Yes

    Votes: 31 48.4%

  • No

    Votes: 33 51.6%
  • Total voters
    64
Nope. I can't remember ever having caffeine, and I'm interested in seeing how long I can keep that streak alive. :goodjob:
 
You have never drank "decaffeinated" coffee or numerous non-cola soft drinks, eaten chocolate, taken Zantrex weight loss pills, or used pain relievers like Excedrin Migraine? How about used breath fresheners, or eaten foods like Morning Spark oatmeal or Perky Jerky beef jerky and numerous others?

Overworked and sleep-deprived, more people are using caffeine as an energy crutch than ever before, experts say. That’s not all bad: In fact, 250 milligrams of caffeine per day—that’s two to three cups of joe—wakes up the brain, improves concentration, relieves stress, and may also help you live longer. But if intake is turning into addiction, you may notice side effects , including dehydration, trouble sleeping, anxiety, an upset stomach, and even problems during prenancy.

If you’re trying to cut back, you’ve probably already reduced the amount of coffee, tea, and sodas that you consume. But the sneaky stimulant can pop up in unexpected places. Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) doesn’t require manufacturers to list caffeine content on nutrition labels, it’s often hard to tell whether a product contains the stimulant, and how much. These 12 sources of caffeine—some hidden, some just plain weird—could be giving you the jitters.
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Addict here.

I don't have an addictive personality at all, I'm not physically addicted to anything else except maybe weird occasional chocolate cravings that happen twice a month.. but caffeine? I'm not a morning person at all, so in the morning I NEED a mug of coffee. I don't even put sugar or cream into it anymore - all i'm interested is the drug in the mug, so I don't care what it tastes like. Cream just upsets my stomach too often (at least the cream that timmy's uses) and i try to cut down on sugar anyway.

Black coffee - not so bad.. doesn't taste amazing, but drugs aren't supposed to taste good, so..
 
I'd hardly call a cup or two of coffee a day an addiction. Try giving it up for a few days. If you don't have any withdrawal symptoms, you aren't addicted.

People who are addicted usually can't go for more than 6 or 7 hours before having a strong desire for more.
 
warpus said:
Addict here.

I don't have an addictive personality at all, I'm not physically addicted to anything else except maybe weird occasional chocolate cravings that happen twice a month.. but caffeine? I'm not a morning person at all, so in the morning I NEED a mug of coffee. I don't even put sugar or cream into it anymore - all i'm interested is the drug in the mug, so I don't care what it tastes like. Cream just upsets my stomach too often (at least the cream that timmy's uses) and i try to cut down on sugar anyway.

Black coffee - not so bad.. doesn't taste amazing, but drugs aren't supposed to taste good, so..
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Thanks for beinbg sincere... I am speaking for myself since we're being so open :) Well I am not an fat as$ but man !! how I love the cake ! I mean ANY and ALL just love it ! And coffee :love: WOW it's a big "WOW" You know... I dont know bout You guys I just f......ing love it ^^ I just wish any human on earth got coffee in the morning on this world ... I mean it's not that much to ask ? is it ... ?
 
If I don't have any caffeine during the day, I get an awful headache by dinnertime. Signs point to yes.

I am down to a cup of coffee or tea a day, plus a 12 oz. can of soda or two. That's way less than I used to do--when I was working at a high-stress internship, I was pounding down four or five cups of coffee a day, and my soda consumption used to be ridiculous as well.
 
The tea probably isn't caffeine-free, much like decaffeinated coffee. It just has less caffeine, which in the case of tea isn't all that much in the first place compared to coffee.
 
Yeah, decaffeination isn't a perfect process (no liquid extraction process is), and I think the current industry standard is to use supercritical CO2 as the solvent. I guess it's better than decaffeinating with benzene, though, so let's count our blessings.

And this has been another broadcast of Anti's random comments on caffeine. Have a nice day.
 
I bow down and hail my dark master, Lord King Caffeine.

I can pretty much exactly pinpoint the time at which I became His devoted servant: Autumn, 1993, the start of my second year at university. Because the one thing I'd learned most thoroughly from my first year at university was that I damn well needed some kind of help to stay awake through all those early-morning lectures, if I wanted to get through the rest of my program with a passing grade average.

I've tried to kick the habit on one or two occasions. Once, I went cold turkey; had my last cup one Friday morning. Saturday afternoon, I went grocery shopping with my wife (this was before we were married but nevermind); I refused to go by myself as I didn't feel able to drive safely. My lady thought I was faking it, until we were inside the supermarket and decided to go down separate aisles to look for different stuff; she found me exactly where she'd left me, completely inert, leaning on the shopping cart and unable to make sense of all the colourful shapes on the shelves. She later said that weekend was like living with a stroke victim.
 
Antilogic said:
Yeah, decaffeination isn't a perfect process (no liquid extraction process is), and I think the current industry standard is to use supercritical CO2 as the solvent. I guess it's better than decaffeinating with benzene, though, so let's count our blessings.

And this has been another broadcast of Anti's random comments on caffeine. Have a nice day.
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It isn't even close to being perfect. From the article I posted earler:

The name implies that this cup of java delivers all the taste you love without the caffeine, but don’t be fooled. In 2007, Consumer Reports tested 36 cups of decaffeinated coffee from six coffee standbys, including Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts. Compared to the caffeine found in a regular cup (generally around 100 milligrams), the decaf samples had less, but some packed in over 20.
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As it also pointed out in the part I quoted earlier, "experts" even recommend up to 250 mg. of caffeine a day so you could drink a lot of the decaffeinated coffee that even had the highest levels without feeling too badly about it.
 
Yes. In fact, one of the worst feelings in the world is when you wake up too late to justify grabbing a morning coffee (like say, if it's around noon).
 
Formaldehyde said:
The tea probably isn't caffeine-free, much like decaffeinated coffee. It just has less caffeine, which in the case of tea isn't all that much in the first place compared to coffee.
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No, actual caffeine free (rooibos, herbal - yes, I realize these aren't technically "tea") teas. I don't bother with decaffeinated beverages.
 
Formaldehyde said:
It isn't even close to being perfect. From the article I posted earler:



As it also pointed out in the part I quoted earlier, "experts" even recommend up to 250 mg. of caffeine a day so you could drink a lot of the decaffeinated coffee that even had the highest levels without feeling too badly about it.
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I missed that article in my first read-through. I'm surprised it's that high--with supercritical CO2, you should be able to knock out 95% with reasonable efficiency if you have the right equipment. Manufacturers are being sloppy, what else is new. :rolleyes:



To expand on the comment earlier, for any interested in some random chemical engineering and public policy history: it required less extreme conditions to remove caffeine using benzene (and tons of other organic solvents), but that process was banned by the FDA because benzene is highly carcinogenic. It was one of the early case studies we looked at for a law-tech-public policy class I took back in the day. Supercritical CO2 is a fluid that is generated under intense heat and pressure to the point where there is no distinction between the liquid and gas phase (it's one of those weird extra phases they don't teach you in high school chemistry), and thus it requires some capital investment to process coffee using it but it has the highest extraction rate in a single pass system and it scales up pretty well (read: the marginal cost of building a slightly bigger machine to process additional coffee costs less than competing methods).
 
I'm definitely not addicted to caffeine any more. Though I was until 12 months ago, when I finally managed to get myself off the stuff. It wasn't too hard to do, in the end. After two or three abortive attempts in the previous 5 years. Nowhere near as hard as nicotine withdrawal.

And I wasn't really concerned about the health issues (though there are some I believe), more I could no longer see the point of consuming something which - in the case of coffee - is quite expensive and is totally unnecessary.

Same sort of thing with alcohol really. Why should I put money in the pockets of distillers, brewers, and coffee importers for no particular reason?

Mind you, to be sociable, I will drink tea, coffee, and alcohol on occasion. But less and less, as I can't really see the point of it any longer.

I used to drink vast amounts of tea. Indeed at one time it was about my sole fluid intake. This can't have been good for me.

Coca cola and the like, I never deliberately tried, iirc. As I understand it's quite a sweet drink - and I've never liked sweet things.

But anyway, all you caffeine consumers, keep up the good work. Coffee beans and tea leaves are important global commodities, and foreign exchange earning crops for developing countries. You'll have to make up for my absence from the market all by yourselves from now on.

And caffeine often features in proprietary brand medicines does it? I didn't know that. But I never buy such stuff anyway.
 
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