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The Coffee Junkie's Guide to Caffeine Addiction

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Re: The Coffee Junkie's Guide to Caffeine Addiction

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What's the typical caffeinated-beverage consumption for a News.YC reader? I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but I'll down 4-6 cups of tea on a normal weekday.

I usually stay away from caffeine entirely (occasionally a Coca-Cola but that's it) except when I really go into crunch mode, when I'll drink 2-3 Bawls or Starbucks Doubleshot Espresso cans to get through an all-night-and-into-the-morning marathon.

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What's the typical caffeinated-beverage consumption for a News.YC reader? I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but I'll down 4-6 cups of tea on a normal weekday.

same amount of tea for me. About 2 coffees per week.

Same here, green or black. Sometimes coffee or diet pop, but not much, they make me jittery and moody.

(For the record, green tea has a small amount of caffeine.)

Tea, particularly green, also has Theanine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine), which smooths out the caffeine jitters. I'm pretty sure theanine is a big part of why green tea feels subjectively different in effect from coffee, even when drinking enough to counterbalance the lower caffeine content.

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