I'm one week without coffee ISTbros. I know it's not much, but I never realized how addicting it actually is since I've stopped. I've been sleeping better and feeling less stressed throughout the day.
I'm one week without coffee?
I'm one week without coffee ISTbros. I know it's not much, but I never realized how addicting it actually is since I've stopped. I've been sleeping better and feeling less stressed throughout the day.
Good OP. Coffee has had disastrous effects on civilization. Half of the modern mental illnesses and life dissatisfaction stem from this drug. People abuse it, using it to mask their poor habits and put up with deleterious effects on their health. It antagonizes GABA causing anxiety and depression. There's a reason every employer in the world provides free coffee to worker bees
I'd rather lower my risk of liver disease, neurological conditions and depression thanks. Plus it tastes good. Take your scaremongering pseudoscience back to plebbit
>lower risk of liver disease
So you're quitting coffee?
>neurological conditions
So you're quitting coffee?
>depression
... so you're quitting coffee. Coffee is a GABA antagonist and reduces sleep quality which directly leads to neurological conditions and depression. Also anxiety, autism, and schizophrenia
That’s nice but I’m about to pour me a cuppa
I get more and more convinced that straight edge / abstinense people are 100% correct. Been off coffee for the last month, and feel so much better.
Drank alcohol the other day, and 100% regret it. It just makes me feel like shit the next few days, and there is no real gain to drinking as I see it. I just do it because ppl expect it.
I think 2024 might be my first year 100% sober
I'm coming around to the same theory.
Kings. I've had a lot of coffee in these last 16 years. I'm not exaggerating when I say it probably ruined my life. But I'm gonna try my hardest to "bloom late" in my 30s.
I had a big cuppa Friday morning. I had a regular cuppa yesterday and it was down before 6am. Slept in today (with dreams!) and had a half cuppa mid morning. I only have enough Zyns for today too.
Tomorrow I get back on strength training + zero stimulants. Bloatmaxx here I come. LFG
>I'm not exaggerating when I say it probably ruined my life
Imagine someone in the 1950s complaining about coffee ruining their lives
This is the next generation that's supposed to lead the western world?
>what about the West????
Not my problem chud
>Imagine someone in the 1950s complaining about coffee ruining their lives
Based...
>This is the next generation that's supposed to lead the western world?
Imagine being so fricking high.
Think about it like this way chud. Maybe the alcohol, coffee, and cigarettes are what led to the fatigue of the west.
>Maybe the alcohol, coffee, and cigarettes are what led to the fatigue of the west.
I blame the coddling of the youth, the comfy "poor me" suburban kids who believe they are fighting god's "toughest battles" because they couldn't get the courage to say hi to Becky in between class period 1 and 2 kek
Humans have never had it so easy, and yet everyone is still discontent.
>Humans have never had it so easy, and yet everyone is still discontent.
And all the problems are superficial and mostly self imposed. It's lack of trying. It mirrors the rise of fatties. People default to fat when they don't put in effort into their lives because of the current world allowing that. The discontent people feel is the same; its all problems of default-behavior and not putting the effort into their lives to change it. Learned helplessness or not, it doesn't change the fact that it is inactivity which causes the problems most people face today.
It may not be their fault, but it is their responsibility.
If they don't take care of their own shit, that is entirely on them.
Kids only know the world they live in and the standars they were raised in. It is unreasonable to expect a child to raise themselves or understand alternatives. That is why the responsibility is on the parents to raise them with the proper standards and expectations the first time around, instead of wasting time and energy in retraining.
Coddling of the youth is the fault of the parents.
I don't remember older generations having to deal with the ramifications of global communication, the internet, fast food, or multiculturalism. But yes chud, keep ranting and raving about "muh west"
Literally all of these are soft positives lmao
>oh no I can talk to people easier 🙁
>the internet oh no 🙁
>I can eat delicious food and have to stop myself from overindulging 🙁
You sound like you would seriously consider yourself of suffering from affluenza if ever given the societal permission to latch on to that particular persecution complex
>It is unreasonable to expect a child to raise themselves or understand alternatives.
Oh I agree. Which is why I'm not talking about children. I'm talking about the adults they turn into.
I was raised obese, on fast food and mountain dew over water; was raised poor as hell in the south with the best school being an F school and gangs stabbing each other in the hallway.
When I grew up, I was obese and uneducated. I pushed on to college when I realized I needed to GET OUT, I starting education myself and working out when I realized how unhealthy I was, and I clawed my way up outta bullshit. And then I hear this silly nonsense on here about "oh no my life is so hard :(" and really, it's all excuses. It's permission to allow yourself to both 1) be a useless human being, and 2) justify why its not your fault. To be clear, I don't care what kind of person you are; if you want to be obese, if you want to eat fast food, if you want to not workout, I honest to god am happy for you. What I don't tolerate is people who refuse to acknowledge that its their choice, that once they realize where they are in life, that they continue to perform actions to keep themselves there and wallow in misery. I will take a happy obese person saying "yep I'm enjoy thing just fine, I'll keep my doritos thank you" over a chubby dude saying "oh its not my fault I'm fat" any day of the week. Once you have the knowledge of who you are and who you want to be, every single action you take pushes closer or further away from that ideal.
You can be whoever you want to be, but don't lie to yourself about it.
I don't believe your brain has the neuroplasticity available to comprehend what life is like for young people today if all you can do is say "but cell phones therefore easier". Just enjoy your retirement home alone, try not to spend the entire time seething about the west.
>to comprehend what life is like for young people today
Lol its a hallmark of every generation that they think they are the first to experience X and that no one has ever experienced all the stuff they are currently experiencing etc etc
Songs are written about this (We didn't start the Fire, for example).
When you are older, you'll be the exact same- you'll see the next generation going through exactly what you did as a kid, go "oh yeah this is just history repeating itself every time", and try to tell the new youth that the world is the way it is- but they'll rebuff you and go "no old man you don't understand no one understaaaaaands meeeeee we are the first and only generation to experience this" and you'll chuckle to yourself
>seethe about the west
I think you are projecting. I think the world is the best its ever been, by any objective measure you can think of. I like the current state of the west. Kids are screaming online about it even though they personally....don't really encounter anything in their own life worth worrying about.
>projection
Black person you were the one who first brought up the West. Everyone itt has been making fun of you for it. And yes, this is the first generation to be raised on the internet. You keep downplaying that to fit your moronic ideas.
Sexo.
>I'm not exaggerating when I say it probably ruined my life
You're 1,000% exaggerating. It's not coffee's fault you suck, it's your fault.
Coffee has nothing to do with alcohol and cigarettes.
How much did you consume coffee daily?
Did you weave off or quit cold turkey? How bad was withdrawals?
You mean wean, also NTA, but that's what i'm doing. Used to drink 3 coffees with two scoops in each one, so basically 6 coffee a day, and now i'm only having 1 of those. I won't stop entirely yet, OMAD is too hard without coffee, but once i'm off that i'll relax on the coffee.
I used to drink a cup a day, sometimes 2. I went cold turkey and my withdrawals were terrible headaches that felt like someone was taking an axe to the top of my head.
Man, I've just stated thinking a few days ago that I should stop drinking it. I really have no idea why I started drinking it in the first place but its part of the habit now.
Coffee thread without lust provoking image?
3 months of No caffeine
>Perfect sleep cycle
>No anxiety or despair
>"bigger picture" type of macro focus (hard to explain)
>flaccid dick hangs lower at 4x size
>errections noticeably thicker
>varicocele reduced significantly
>hemorrhoids healed
>IBS gone
It might not all be 100% from NoCaff but it's definitely related.
>varicocele reduced significantly
Please elaborate. Is caffeine supposed to make this condition worse?
>flaccid dick hangs lower at 4x size
>errections noticeably thicker
Real and an excellent reason to quit
I’m 3 months off the stress slurp
Anyone who talks about “muh health benefits of coffee” or “muh caffeine is good for you” is trying to justify their addiction
You guys are even worse than nofap schizos
They are same guys in 9/10 cases. "Self improvers" are modern day prophets.
>coffee addicts
Likely enormously addicted. I drank a couple cups of coffee a day, then quit cold turkey for six weeks. there was a day of adjustment and then I felt completely fine. Just stop consuming it like heroin.
You wouldn’t believe me but one month in and I still feel groggy. I abused caffeine a lot I was drinking 6 espresso shots per day and I’m still recovering. No motivation to go to work and grind, I just wanna chill all day. Although sleep is godtier now and I’m definitely more relaxed
>No motivation to go to work and grind
You never had the motivation. You just had a high from a stimulant.
No sane human wants to “go to work and grind.”
If you expect to somehow return to your caffeine induced euphoria to mask inherently annoying and boring bullshit @ work then you’re setting yourself up for failure..
I drank a pot of coffee every day for 2 years then quit cold turkey when I quit work. Never had any withdrawal or bad feeling but I did gain weight.
I’ve drank a pot for years now. Always done before 11 AM though. I can quit for a few days without any noticeable effects. My sleep has been rotten lately. Thinking about quitting for a week and see if it improves.
I'd rather do speed at this point honestly. Snorting pure speed felt monumentally more satisfying
That will frick your head up quickly.
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I’ve gone on and off multiple times over the years and pretty much saw zero difference, if I drink too much or too late it definitely gives me anxiety and messes up my sleep but one cup in the morning per day and no issues whatsoever
I got chest pain when I stopped for a couple of weeks
I’ve been on and off caffeine a few times, longest was for maybe a month. It’s really hard to quit because of how socially ingrained it is. Last time was because my boss asked me to go to a cafe with them and they didn’t have decaf.
Benefits are better sleep and feeling more calm. Downsides are that coffee tastes nice. I had a few months where I moderated myself to one cup a few hours after waking up and that seemed to be the best of both worlds. Since losing my job a few weeks ago I’m back up to 3 strong cups a day. Unsure if it’s the coffee or the job search but I generally am feeling a lot more anxious lately. Been clenching my jaw at night a lot as well. Going to cut back to one cup a day again to see if that helps.
Should I switch from coffee to tea?
Absolutely. Make sure there's no caffeine in the tea though
caffeine is one of the worst drugs there is. Enjoy enlightenment
feel you Bro. there is a work around to the caffeine getting to you and keeping you up at night.
>only for coffee
>ween'd off pre
take 2 weeks off of coffee. start taking magnesium and zinc before your last meal. the combo makes me start feeling groggy by 7pm, and it's a battle for me to stay awake past 10pm, so i usually just give in by 930. i rise from 330am - 5am, fully rested.
after a couple of weeks of abstaining from coffee, and cycling mag / zinc, then you can have coffee again. hell i drink coffee with my supper now, i still fall fast asleep by 10pm.
I only started drinking coffee in my middle 20's and it's had a great impact on my energy levels. I was feeling lethargic most of my life, now I have much more energy every day. I still decaf every now and then, seen too many people my age drink more and more coffee until they're up to a litre a day, fricking crazy. They can't function without it. Two mugs is my self-imposed upper limit, usually I just drink one.
>potent CNS stimulant is addictive
A groundbreaking realization indeed.