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I drink a lot of coffee. 8 to 15 cups a day. I always have. I have an insane caffeine tolerance.

One day (I was about 20 at the time) I wondered "am I addicted"? So as an experiment I quite cold turkey. I didn't drink any coffee or tea for a week. I didn't get any headaches, and I didn't feel any kind of withdrawal syndrome. Yes on the first day I really felt like some coffee in the morning, but after not drinking it my body just accepted it. And I went on with my day.

After about a week of literally no changes, I concluded that I cannot be addicted. I went back to drinking coffee at the same rate and never stopped. It doesn't provide me much benefit (like concentration or energy) due to my very high tolerance. But I just really like coffee so I'm going to carry on drinking it.

I wonder if I am a weird exception, or if there are many others like me. We really like coffee but we are not actually addicted to it.

I suppose the same could be said about alcohol. Some people react very differently towards it and get easily addicted, while others don't even though they drink a lot and just do it for enjoyments sake.




At least with cigarettes, it takes 2 - 4 years to really cement your addiction.

Plenty of younger people (well I guess it's with juuls now) tell themselves they can quit whenever they want, and take break during a week of family vacation. No problem, so they keep on smoking.

5 years later when they try to quit they realize that maybe they weren't as bulletproof as they thought. I know for sure it happened to me.

Of course caffeine could be totally different addiction wise, and thankfully not nearly as deadly, but just some food for thought.


I had already been drinking coffee for at least 6 years by that time.

But I was actually thinking of trying it again for a longer period of time (~ 6 months) and seeing what happens.




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