Has anyone successfuly quit coffee? I quit cigarettes, alcohol but tried many times to quit coffee and just can't. I feel so terrible it feels it gets worse every day I don't drink, then a little cup of espresso fixes everything.
Better disposable coffee cups can be made with waste from sugar cane
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#52> They also found that when they made a cup out of the stuff and filled it with water heated almost to boiling point, the cup remained intact for more than two hours. Though this is not as long as a plastic cup would last (it would survive indefinitely) it is long enough for all practical purposes. Err, no. A disposable cup that leaks after 2 hours is a horrible product. Disposable cups are at their most useful in th…
Should cars have a coffee tank? Imagine pouring coffee at a stop just like petrol and have dispenser somewhere near driving seat with a mouthpiece.
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#53Has anyone successfuly quit coffee? I quit cigarettes, alcohol but tried many times to quit coffee and just can't. I feel so terrible it feels it gets worse every day I don't drink, then a little cup of espresso fixes everything.
It took me 4 days of headaches but afterwards I had no symptoms. My friend group did a challenge to go without caffeine for 30 days.
Everyone made it. My "trick" was to treat the withdrawal symptoms like I was coming off of heroine, visualize a clear improvement after the slump. The rest was just to find caffeine free replacements. Coke Zero Caffeine-Free was a blessing.
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#54Has anyone successfuly quit coffee? I quit cigarettes, alcohol but tried many times to quit coffee and just can't. I feel so terrible it feels it gets worse every day I don't drink, then a little cup of espresso fixes everything.
> Has anyone successfuly quit coffee?
Sure. I assume you tried to go cold turkey on coffee, and didn't like it. I'd suggest the gradual method, which might work better for you.
Over the span of a week, normalize your coffee intake. Have just two cups of coffee a day at a regular time with known quantity of coffee.
Next week, reduce the amount of coffee in one cup by 1/2. So, if you grind 30g of coffee, grind 15g.
The week after that, reduce the amount of coffee in the other cup to the same amount.
The week after that, reduce the amount of coffee in one cup by 1/4 (or, eliminate entirely). One week after that, do the same to the other cup. Before you know it, going cold turkey gives you no symptoms.
You can see how this goes on. Adjust the time period and/or the coffee reduction to whatever works for you. For me, a week and coffee reduction by 1/4th (of the original amount) worked just fine for me.
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#55Has anyone successfuly quit coffee? I quit cigarettes, alcohol but tried many times to quit coffee and just can't. I feel so terrible it feels it gets worse every day I don't drink, then a little cup of espresso fixes everything.
It's like diet coke, you can either gradually wean off over a few months or take a few weeks off work and just bite the bullet.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
People drink in their car all over the world, what makes it "very American"?
It probably happens more in America than elsewhere in the world. Simply because Americans probably spend more of their lives inside a car than people from other countries.
I*m not convinced. Pretty much every gas station here in Norway has a convenience store that sells coffee - not really much different in that regard from the US (I'm from the US). Not as many fast food restaurants, though the gas station fare is better here than the US.
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#57Currently purchasing a full plastics thermoforming line.
Not a chemist, but AFAIK current market available 'biostarch polymers' (AFAIK always PLA; which may be marketed as made from corn, sugar cane, etc.) are actually extremely environmentally unfriendly because of the massive embodied energy required to create the industry-ready polymer from the bio-waste material. Their single benefit is nominal biodegradability.
It is far better for the environment if single use plastics are just minimized, for example by re-using all containers in your supply chain. This has therefore been our focus.
For the last mile to the consumer, however, it's unfortunate that people are now used to disposables, so it's likely going to take a technology shift like Dr. Zhu's or an improved form of traditional techniques such as palm leaf wrapping (common in South and Southeast Asia) or single-use clay pottery (India) to improve the situation.
Our company have been considering sponsoring an open robotics challenge in this space (commercially viable deployments of traditional palm leaf wrapping). If anyone would like to co-sponsor, get in touch.
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#58> They also found that when they made a cup out of the stuff and filled it with water heated almost to boiling point, the cup remained intact for more than two hours. Though this is not as long as a plastic cup would last (it would survive indefinitely) it is long enough for all practical purposes. Err, no. A disposable cup that leaks after 2 hours is a horrible product. Disposable cups are at their most useful in th…
To me, drinking in a car is a very American thing and I don't think this would be a problem here. If this product works in most of the world but not the US, it would still be better than using plastic cups everywhere. Although paper cups are already common anyway.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
It probably happens more in America than elsewhere in the world. Simply because Americans probably spend more of their lives inside a car than people from other countries.
I*m not convinced. Pretty much every gas station here in Norway has a convenience store that sells coffee - not really much different in that regard from the US (I'm from the US). Not as many fast food restaurants, though the gas station fare is better here than the US.
In France as well coffee is available in gas stations, highway rest areas, etc. But people usually drink their coffee before going back to their car, not while driving.
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#60> They also found that when they made a cup out of the stuff and filled it with water heated almost to boiling point, the cup remained intact for more than two hours. Though this is not as long as a plastic cup would last (it would survive indefinitely) it is long enough for all practical purposes. Err, no. A disposable cup that leaks after 2 hours is a horrible product. Disposable cups are at their most useful in th…
We need more environmental tech, but we also have to adapt our behaviour a little bit. How can you make something that is degradable in an environmental friendly way, but also last forever? Something has to give.
I wonder if a hybrid approach between disposable and "keep cup" could work.
The "default" takeaway option could be the short-lasting paper cup.
For car, office or just comfort, you could have a squashy, silicone (stands high temp) outer that would usually only need to be cleaned if the inner cup fails.
A silicone shell with disposable inner would work well for me, at least. The shell would rarely need to be cleaned and can be easily pocketed.