What effect does coffee and caffeine have on you?

gothic_hobbit said:
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I probably have 2 or 3 mugs (twice size of average mug cos I'm a real man :p) of coffee a day at work and 4 or 5 mugs of tea. Plus tea at breakfast and a couple at home after work. Don't feel any side effects from it.

I did cut caffeine out completely (bar the morning cuppa) for a week and started getting headaches several times a day. As soon as I started drinking tea and coffee again, no more headaches
 
I drink quite a lot of coffee, perhaps 6-8 cups a day and this week I decided to stop drinking it and GOD does it leave you with a headache for the first few days.
 
Energy drinks only really work if you only have them when you really need them. A few times now I have been on a job and have been ready to call it a day and I would have to go back the following day. Then after having an energy drink it gave me the extra boost to get stuck in and get the job finished.

Coffee doesn't have the same effect and I just drink it for the taste really. I guess it does help to wake me up a little bit in the morning, but that's it.
 
Coffee and Caffeine? Well, the same affect as each other really.. :/

Depends how long i've been without it. When drink 3-6 cups of coffee a day, caffeine doesn't do much, your body is dependent on it. If i stop for a week or two and then go back on then BAM! hits me like a freight train.

If i'm planning on having a big gaming session/LAN then i will cut out caffeine a week or two before and then pile on it when the time comes for it's use.

I do quite like Caffeine, it's a handy drug.
 
Just one coffee doesn't do much for me, however something like a multiple espresso makes me aware of my heart pounding.
I only drink about 3-4 cups a day as I cut down when I realised it's not the best thing to be drinking lots of.

One thing it's great for with me is stopping headaches in their tracks, if I feel one coming on throw a couple paracetamol down and have a cup of coffee and I can get through without needing to resort to lying in the foetal position on a bed in a dark room :)
 
"Proper" coffee makes my wee smell funny.

More than 2 cups makes my head buzz. Not in a good way. Freeze dried / machine coffee does nothing.

Tea however, I can drink 8-10 cups a day (addicted) and need the strong bags, brewed for about 5 minutes in the cup first, with hardly a drop of milk, otherwise I cant taste it - Makes me feel goodm but don't get the head buzz.
 
If I drink enough (2-3 good strong cups in the space of a day) I will get pretty hot and flushed, typical stimulant effects, really. Caffeine has a very insidious grip on people's lifestyles, I feel - there's a real culture of casual consumption going on. You could even say dependence but of course nobody in legitimate mainstream culture likes to discuss 'substance dependence' because they think you're accusing them of being a smackhead. But many other students I have seen - and indeed their parents as well - are wholly dependent on a pot of coffee in the morning to get their engines warmed up. We take such a casual attitude to consumption of things like caffeine and alcohol when, really, they are just as biotoxic as many controlled substances (but that's an oft travelled and tired point to make, I admit).

Funnily enough caffeine affects me way more nowadays, after 3-4 years of the 'student' experience putting just about every drug under the sun into my body. I guess it's easier to compare the stimulant rush and see similarities with cocaine, amphetamine, Ritalin-variants etc (and a strong shot of caffeine will give you just the same temporary mental lucidity and singular focus as these drugs).

Oh and I'll take a nice strong tea or coffee over an energy drink, any day. Casual caffeine use is one thing but diabetes from massive and constant sugar intake is another.
 
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