[mtinkerhess]

It sounds like the main benefits from the spray as opposed to coffee / tea are: 1) Cost 2) Convenience.

The spray will cost about $0.38 per dose.

The competition isn't coffee or tea but caffeine pills, which are cheaper and about as convenient. It looks like you can get 120 100 mg pills on Amazon for $5, or $0.04 per dose. I don't see the benefit of a spray as opposed to pills.

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It looks like you can get 120 100 mg pills on Amazon for $5, or $0.04 per dose. I don't see the benefit of a spray as opposed to pills.

You have a good point, but 100 mg is a good dose of caffeine for people that are sensitive to it. They would find themselves cutting the pills down for lesser doses. The 100 mg caffeine pills I bought on Amazon are very tiny and would be very difficult to cut without a specialized device.

[mikeyouse]

The specialized device for cutting pills costs about $3 and is available at every single pharmacy on earth. They are generally designed to be used by the elderly and infirm.

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How small of a pill can they accurately cut? The caffeine pills I got off Amazon are about the size of 2 pinheads and are kind of soft. I don't think they would be easy but I've never used a pill cutter.

[mikeyouse]

Some of them are designed for such small pills, those might run a few more dollars. I worked in an inpatient pharmacy for awhile and we regularly cut tiny pills.

They are fairly ingenious for how simple they are, basically you put the pill in a V-shaped compartment so it would settle down to the base of the V. Flip the lid over and a razor blade would apply even pressure and split any size pill perfectly in half.

Some were more amenable than others to the splitting, while some would explode into a chalky mess, but I think that had more to do with the filler than the ingredients, which gives the opportunity to shop around.