Gray808
Bluelighter
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- Feb 25, 2023
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so I'm not sure where to put this but I find that caffeine has a worse withdrawal that lasts way longer than that of nicotine. I feel that the habit of hand to mouth and inhaling sharp pinches of smoke or vapor is much more mentally addicting than anything caffeine does mentally. That being the case I still give into caffeine "cravings" (more just persistent thoughts that this withdrawal is not really worth the improvements or possibly lack thereof to my life) around 3 days to a week in. Nicotine while having worse and true addictive cravings (by that I mean persistent thoughts of the substance in a glorified light and an immense pull to use it unrelated to the pointlessness of quitting) it also has the motivation of "if you keep doing this you could die in a hospital bed starving for air" and only causes the cravings and a mild headache for about 1 week for me. I guess I should also mention that I have adhd so caffeine may genuinely help me function however I would also argue that nicotine helps me regulate my emotions through the required relaxed breathing and the nature of the act of smoking and probably some aspect of the pharmacology. caffeine has a weirdly bad withdrawal for me, it's probably worth mentioning that I primarily use caffeine gum at a dose of around 100 mg and place the chewed gum in my upper lip meaning that some sublingual, oral and buccal caffeine is absorbed leading to a faster onset and perhaps greater bioavailability I haven't been able to find much on that. I take only one dose a day right when I wake up and have done so for years. the withdrawal is mostly just headache, congestion, mild nausea, fatigue and worsened adhd symptoms but I never really feel motivated enough to deal these symptoms for the like 2/3 weeks they last so I think i'll just use caffeine in some form or another for the rest of my life which doesn't particularly bother me. anyway just wondering if this reflects anyone else's experience.
also I "relapse" on nicotine sometimes but I generally just have a bad day and smoke or vape that day then don't really have a problem with not doing it the subsequent days so if that doesn't count as quitting it to you disregard everything I've said
also I "relapse" on nicotine sometimes but I generally just have a bad day and smoke or vape that day then don't really have a problem with not doing it the subsequent days so if that doesn't count as quitting it to you disregard everything I've said