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There’s also https://www.kaffn8.com/. Haven’t used it myself, but a guy I worked with sure did.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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I actually like coffee but yeah, caffeine pills are great
4, yes you can, haven't you never heard of measures? Or do you just not know how to do math in your head based on how much you've had?
Volumetric dosing is more accurate than crumbs of pills, as long as you have a homogeneous solution and know it's strength.
3 swallowing pills is more boring and most people like a liquid to go with it, so you're gonna have to have a drink anyway
2 that depends a ton on the coffee and where you're buying caffeine pills from
1 practice dental hygiene and moderation of consumption.
If you're doing it just for the caffeine, you have a caffeine addiction. For me, I drink coffee because I enjoy it. The caffeine I can take or leave, and often do.
This year I've enjoyed every single cup of coffee I've had; all three of them.
I would probably still brew decaf coffee to go with them for the taste and smell.
But then you are missing out on all the other rad methylxanthines
Unpopular, maybe, but I agree with OP. When I finally counted up all the caffeine I was consuming, I found I was over 1500mg/day.
I switched to caffeine-free drinks the next day, and tapered down to 200mg in the mornings.
Apparently, I shouldn't try to explain this to people IRL.
200mg? That a Celsius?
2x 100mg caffeine pills per day.
I will add in my own twist:
Caffeine pills are better than those shitty MiO caffeined water flavor squeeze bottles.
- MiO is stupid expensive and owned by an evil megacorp.
- Black plastic isn't recyclable.
- Dosages are standardized for caffeine pills. If you squeeze thr MiO too hard and don't notice, you're gonna have a bad time.
- You can wash it down with any flavor liquid you choose, not just chemical fruit flavor.
At that point you could just take some amphetamines if you don't want to drink coffee.
I do and it's why I can't drink coffee 😭
(They're prescribed dw)
4)its false, you cant control it because you become addicted to it, and become tolerant and you end up taking even more. i knew someone in college that was taking pills she got so used to it, she had to keep taking it for it work normally.
The dependency does not change based on the form.
When you take a pill, you have a hard number about how much caffeine did you just ingest. On the other hand, you don't get that at all with the normal coffee.
Agreed and I did this for a bit until I got lazy.
And if you have taste and money you can just drink monster energy instead which addresses 1,2 and 4 and is just enjoyable and tasty and much less harmful than most coffee since it has no sugar, calories and the caffeine dose is always clearly stated in mg, which is hard to find for coffee tins.
Bruh.