Poll of the Day > Are you addicted to caffeine?

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I am the kind of person who can drink an energy drink than immediately go to sleep for 8 hours. But to be honest, I do have a glass of unsweetened iced tea every morning (except Saturday and Sunday). But it is more for intermittent fasting purposes than anything since I have been skipping breakfast. If I didn't have it my mind would convince me I need to eat something.

I have had 1 caffinated soda in the last year. I don't drink coffee. I will drink tea occasionally maybe once or twice a month on average. I do like Chocolate though. In winter I will have hot chocolate every few days and occasionally in other seasons as a treat, plus whatever chocolate I happen to have as a treat.

So possible, but unlikely. I don't think chocolate has that much and while I have chocolate fairly frequently, it's not an everyday thing.

slacker03150 posted...

So possible, but unlikely. I don't think chocolate has that much and while I have chocolate fairly frequently, it's not an everyday thing.

To pull numbers from earlier in the topic, dark chocolate has about the same amount of caffeine per oz as coffee, but where it's significantly less common for people to eat half a pound of chocolate in a sitting than to drink 8 oz of coffee (a "tall" from Starbucks is 12 oz), that direct comparison doesn't mean a whole lot.

I drink 12 cups of coffee a day.
And then in the weekend usually drink none. Only because I don't feel like I need it to get through the day.
So when does the withdrawal kick in?

adjl posted...

To pull numbers from earlier in the topic, dark chocolate has about the same amount of caffeine per oz as coffee, but where it's significantly less common for people to eat half a pound of chocolate in a sitting than to drink 8 oz of coffee (a "tall" from Starbucks is 12 oz), that direct comparison doesn't mean a whole lot.

Iirc most dark chocolate is about 70% cocoa where most milk chocolate is 30%. So that would reduce it as well.

adjl posted...

To pull numbers from earlier in the topic, dark chocolate has about the same amount of caffeine per oz as coffee, but where it's significantly less common for people to eat half a pound of chocolate in a sitting than to drink 8 oz of coffee (a "tall" from Starbucks is 12 oz), that direct comparison doesn't mean a whole lot.

You should see me with candy.
Anyways, I'd have both coffee and chocolate excessively, but now only candy/chocolate.

Chocolate is fart tier candy.
I don't even enjoy it when aunt Irma visits, which apparently is weird.

Dikitain posted...

I am the kind of person who can drink an energy drink than immediately go to sleep for 8 hours. But to be honest, I do have a glass of unsweetened iced tea every morning (except Saturday and Sunday). But it is more for intermittent fasting purposes than anything since I have been skipping breakfast. If I didn't have it my mind would convince me I need to eat something.

That happens only if I'm extremely tired. I fell asleep the other day after having a strong cup of coffee.

SinisterSlay posted...

I drink 12 cups of coffee a day.
And then in the weekend usually drink none. Only because I don't feel like I need it to get through the day.
So when does the withdrawal kick in?

You can't have withdrawal symptoms if you're dead.

pedro45 posted...

You should see me with candy.

Oh, it's certainly possible to eat that much, but 8 oz of chocolate is really quite a lot, while 8 oz of coffee is pretty widely considered to be a small cup of it and even the "one cup a day" crowd tends to have more than that.

MightBeOverSoon posted...

Chocolate is fart tier candy.

You're fart tier candy.

Revelation34 posted...

You can't have withdrawal symptoms if you're dead.

Not dead yet. Working on it quicker than i expected though

SinisterSlay posted...

Not dead yet. Working on it quicker than i expected though

It was sarcasm. If you drank that much caffeine for real you would literally be dead.

lol wut

Revelation34 posted...

It was sarcasm. If you drank that much caffeine for real you would literally be dead.

I've been drinking that much a day for 10+years already.

No. Though I should be. Have drank caffeine drinks all day for most of my life. It does zero for my energy levels. I recently went a month without caffeine and it had no effect on me. No withdrawals or anything. Only other factor is I also didnr drink booze that month either. But I felt fine

Yup. Love mixing uppers and downers. I drink jagerbombs (energy drink and alcohol), and then take melatonin to sleep. Then in the morning I shit blood so much that my toilet looks like a murder scene.

Metalsonic66 posted...

lol wut

An entire pot is 12 cups. Assuming that's just 8 ounces each at the lowest possible amount that's 840mg of caffeine. It's most likely more than that. Anything past 400 is considered dangerous but 840 is deadly.

There seems to be a genetic component to how likely people are to be harmed by caffeine. Some people can have huge amounts of it with no apparent health issues, others will have heart attacks at 30 if they drink more than a cup a day. Health problems are common enough that most people that drink quite a lot of caffeine will be recommended to cut back, but for some people it genuinely doesn't actually matter.

Revelation34 posted...

An entire pot is 12 cups. Assuming that's just 8 ounces each at the lowest possible amount that's 840mg of caffeine. It's most likely more than that. Anything past 400 is considered dangerous but 840 is deadly.

Really i didn't know that.
I've been cutting back. I'm down to 3 cups a day. But maybe I'll cut back even further