[bayindirh]

What about body's response? Is it easy to curb?

I was drinking 2 liters of coffee per day while finishing my Ph.D.. Next week I wasn't drinking, and after that I occasionally drank half a cup per day. This was seven years ago, and I still drink half a cup, because I like the taste of coffee.

I have at least a dozen vaping friends who said they started to stop smoking. Now at least half of them have heavily souped up, customized e-cigs. Two of them are making their own liquids with nicotine, rest are using bog-standard vapes.

None of them stopped smoking or nicotine intake, which was the goal of all of them.

[zachturn]

This is such an edge case on quitting a caffeine addiction. 2 liters is an INSANE amount of coffee to be drinking daily.

Kudos to you but let's not pretend this is the average experience of people breaking even much milder levels of caffeine consumption.

[bayindirh]

I did my research before letting coffee loose on my body.

The coffee acts by blocking tiredness/sleep receptors on the brain, so brain builds more of them to work normally. This is how coffee dependence and tolerance builds.

When you stop coffee, brain detects that the number of receptors is too high and starts to break them down. This is why you get the headaches.

That "one week" period is not an edge case, it's the science of it. If it was proved to be harder on that research, I'd never let my body to reach 2L/day levels.

[itsoktocry]

>I did my research before letting coffee loose on my body.

Was this research similar to you drawing conclusions about nicotine based on the handful of your friends that vape?

[bayindirh]

Yes. I read papers about both subjects. Also read papers about other drugs because of an addicted friend who I don't talk with anymore.

What I gave was an example, and looks like you're upset about it.

Please keep in mind that while itsoktocry, itsnotoktosnark at HN [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[freedomben]

fwiw I thought this comment was the snarky one, not GP. Given that this snarky comment also tried to call out GP for snark and refer to the HN guidelines against snark, it also became highly ironic. I would guess that's why you've been downvoted.

[bayindirh]

That comment is not my best by any means, and I see where you’re coming from, and respect your view. Thanks for bringing it up.

However, language is both subjective and culture dependent (plus, words doesn’t carry tone and sound). If somebody asks the same question the same way in my native language to my face, it’s not only snarky, but it’s rude (and mildly offensive depending on the context).

I don’t think I’m expected to know the all possible cultural styles, and take anything and everything kindly and politely, all day, every day.

Henceforth, I tone matched the comment according to my perception. I might be correct or wrong according some dominant discussion culture here, and people may perceive me the snarkier one according to their cultures. I can’t judge them, but this doesn’t change the fact that the style of question is rude on my side, and I have the right to respond equally (to my perception).

Normally I’m a much softer person and don’t write sharp comments, so that one is an exception.

Lastly I’ll be posting a research tome on caffeine addiction/withdrawal to the person who asked, so you might one to follow that thread too.

Have a nice day :)