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Study: Small Doses of Caffeine Best to Stay Awake 146

Posted by timothy from the iv-drip dept.
Ralph writes "This study concludes that smaller doses of caffeine throughout the day are more effective in keeping awake for long hours, rather than the traditional morning mug of coffee. However, in many cases, myself included, the problem isn't staying awake for long hours, but rather using uptime efficiently. Any known cures for the "laziness disorder" out there?"
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  • Slashdot isn't it (Score:5, Funny)

    by ni4882 ( 584113 ) on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @06:00PM (#9121130)
    Well, my guess is that slashdot is not the best cure for "laziness disorder".

    • Re:Slashdot isn't it (Score:5, Interesting)

      by bergeron76 ( 176351 ) * on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @10:32PM (#9123533) Homepage
      I've found that the best way to get over laziness is to set a goal for myself for the next day. I do this when I go to bed at night and when the day arrives, I just feel more motivated. I've also found that the less sleep I get, the more motivated I am. If I wake up at 11AM on a Saturday, I'll just kind of slough around the house (thinking about doing all kinds of stuff, but not actually doing it). However, if I get up early, I seem to have much more energy (when I do finally get going) and get a lot more done in the day (I don't mean relatively; my premise is based on days with equal # of awake hours).

      I have a theory that all of this "extra" energy could be of consequence later in life (shorter lifespan maybe?), but I have no way to quantify something like that; so I won't speculate.

      I'm just pointing out my own first hand experiences - as always, YMMV.

      • I doubt about the "extra" energy use coming back to hurt you later in life. For heavy weightlifter types, maybe.

        But if you look at people in society who stay active all the time, they tend to be the ones who stay productive late in life.

        I have the exact same problem as you; my college schedule has no classes on Wed and Fri, so I sleep in until 11:30 and the day is wasted. I'd be better off with class at nine in the morning daily. Exercise is starting to help me get back on track..

      • Alright, who the hell let a morning person in??? :)

        I don't really have this problem, if I get up at noon, I'm up until 6 the next day and stuff gets done.

        Of course, if I get up at 6, I still don't do anything until 2pm... I think my brain forgot what time zone I live in..

  • Small doses, eh? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Ianoo ( 711633 ) on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @06:01PM (#9121142) Journal
    I wonder what the best way to get these small doses might be. Perhaps snorting a line of coffee granules every few hours?

    • Re:Small doses, eh? (Score:5, Funny)

      by Carnildo ( 712617 ) on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @06:02PM (#9121167) Homepage Journal
      I wonder what the best way to get these small doses might be. Perhaps snorting a line of coffee granules every few hours?

      IV drip.

    • Re:Small doses, eh? (Score:1, Interesting)

      by grungefade ( 748722 )
      what i do is, just take 1/4 of a nodoze (50 mg). And i end up taking about 2 - 3 a day, throughout the day. I found this to be way better than drinking coffee. Its something about getting all the caffeine at once that works a lot better than coffee. Even though a full pill is supposed to be equal to one cup of coffee (200 mg). I only take 1/4 and feel more than i do from coffee. I stopped taking a full one every day because i couldnt stop feeling cracked out.
    • I wonder what the best way to get these small doses might be.

      Dunno, but I find that chunks of 70+% bitter chocolate at regular intervals (every half hour or so) seems to keep me awake till the well after dawn when I play FPS's. Then again, I guess the FPS itself is stressful, so would tend to prolong wakefullness, but still, the chocolate seems to do something.

      There's Caffeine, as well as other stimulants (theobromine IRC) in chocolate, so it's not too surprising I guess.

    • Re:Small doses, eh? (Score:3, Informative)

      by Josh Booth ( 588074 )
      I would think that brewing yourself a nice cup of $YOUR_FAVORITE_TEA every few hours might be good, since it has less caffeine and, depending on how long you let it steep, you can control how much caffeine it has. But then again, I'm only a high school senior and don't work in an office environment.

      Also note that, while tea leaves have more caffeine by mass than coffee beans, the resulting liquid has less.

      MY_FAVORITE_TEA="Earl Grey"

      • Also, the caffeine in tea is a different isomer than the caffeine in coffee (and both are different from the caffeine in chocolate).

        The caffeine in coffee tends to have a greater physiological effect than in the other forms of ingestion.
      • ...and, depending on how long you let it steep, you can control how much caffeine it has.

        Actually, according to the Tea FAQ [ripco.net] from rec.food.drink.tea, caffeine is one of the most readily-dissolved materials in the tea, and most of it makes it into the water in the first 20-30 seconds of steeping.

        Are you equating "strong" with "caffinated"? That's a pretty common misconception; a lot of time something tastes stronger but actually has less caffeine in it. Compare dark to light roast coffee, for example;

    • You'd be surprised. Out of boredom, late one night, a friend and myself rolled some Starbucks and smoked it. Well... it didn't taste half bad! It was all a big joke to us, but I noticed that about half way through the coffee joint we were talking nonstop. Sleep was a long time in coming. There can't have been much caffeine there between the two of us, but it still seemed to work, shockingly well. Yes, we were tired, but just... couldn't sleep. We just had to do something, anything. Though already ti
    • I once bought 100 grams of caffeine to make OpenCola. What to do with the remaining 98g? I snorted some. It didn't seem to work. Foil smoking was better, but it might have been placebo. Does anybody know how to recrystallize caffeine to get caffeine citrate for snorting? ;)

  • zerg (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Lord Omlette ( 124579 ) on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @06:05PM (#9121210) Homepage
    Ask your girlfriend not to have sex w/ you unless you can prove you took a few major items off your todo list.

    • Re:zerg (Score:3, Funny)

      by ichimunki ( 194887 )
      That's a logical impossibility. That is the first few major items on my todo list.

      Or at least it was when I had a girlfriend. Which seemed to be the case a lot more before I started reading Slashdot. Hmmmm. And the house was cleaner too!

    • Re:zerg (Score:3, Funny)

      by stienman ( 51024 )
      And it'll help with your carpal tunnel problem.

      -Adam
    • My girlfriend? Heh. Lord Omlette, you kidder, you.
    • Yeah and after you are done doing all those jobs, she'll be all over you, horny as hell, but... you're too tired!!
  • I start the day with a big mug of Nescafé and top up with frequent doses of espresso.

    Then at the weekend all I need is asprin to overcome the caffine withdrawl headaches.

    • Afraid to try the real stuff? The darker a bean has been roasted, the less caffeine it has. If I buy the lightest roast I can, I can make coffee so strong that I can barely hold a pencil afterward, though it doesn't taste any stronger than coffee at your favorite greasy-spoon. Ususally I mix a little dark roast in just to make it taste as strong as it actually is, much like adding foul-smelling mercaptans to odorless natural gas so that gas leaks have a smell.
      • " Afraid to try the real stuff?"

        My local bar does offer a very wide range of coffee beans, and they slip a little dark chocolatte onto the side of the cup. Perhaps I will try some of the lighter beans.

      • Why not just roast it yourself?
        It'll be cheaper, fresher, and you can control how light you want it to be.

        All you need to get started is an old hot air popcorn popper (with vents on the sides, not a screen on the bottom). Just throw the beans in, and cook until the color is right.

        I tend to go for a lighter roast - American to Full City [baldmountaincoffee.com] or so.

        I used to use a popcorn popper, until I found a nice roaster on clearence for $15.
    • Excedrin is caffeinated!!

  • If it was just 'found' today (Score:5, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @06:11PM (#9121271)
    If caffeine was just discovered today, it would be illegal to use in the USA.
    It would be a Schedule 1 drug, right next to heroin, cocaine, pot, and peyote.

    It satisfies the requirements of addiction, acute withdrawal, and abnormal body functions while partaking of it, along with long-term physiological affects.
    When you say you need your fix, you are closer to the truth than you think!



    Note-I don't necessarily agree with the above, but that's the way it is.
    • AC, you ignorant slut! You know that's utter bullshite!

      Now excuse me while I prime up a vein for my afternoon fix of caffeine.

    • Re:If it was just 'found' today (Score:4, Interesting)

      by norton_I ( 64015 ) <hobbes@utrek.dhs.org> on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @08:58PM (#9122856)
      I have been addicted to caffeine and quit several times. There are withdrawl symtoms, but they really aren't that bad. Increased irritability and minor headaches, mostly. People who make a big deal of it suffer from another "disease" where they think it makes them cool to whine about how bad their withdrawl symptoms are.

      Also, it is not that addictive. I have never had a problem quitting. It is true that I have always started again, eventually (typically a copuple months later), but I think that is just because I am weak willed.
      • I used to be prone to migraines.

        I've quit caffeine several times.

        The withdrawal headaches aren't as bad as migraines. Quite. They can still leave you on the floor, literally, if they catch you at the wrong moment. It varies from person to person, ya know?
      • I am caffeine sensitive, in the same way that an alcoholic is "alcohol sensitive". The worst time was probably 10 years ago when I was in high school... It just creeps up on you until you're drinking it all the time ... I basically couldn't stay awake for more then an hour without caffeine, finally I decided I had to quit, went cold turkey, and slept 17 hours. The next day, 14 hours, then 12 ... It took almost 6 months for me to really feel "awake" during the day.

        If I need to stay up now I try to eat pe

      • People who make a big deal of it suffer from another "disease" where they think it makes them cool to whine about how bad their withdrawl symptoms are.

        With all due respect, fuck you. It all depends on physiology and the amount that you used to ingest. Maybe you were used to a few cups of coffee a day, and your body handled the lack well; I was drinking something like two 2-liters a day, and when I stopped cold turkey, I was quite fucked up for about four days. Horrible headaches, complete exhaustion, ev

      • Re:If it was just 'found' today (Score:5, Insightful)

        by slithytove ( 73811 ) on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @11:03AM (#9126669) Homepage
        First of all, as some other responders have said- people's physiology varies, I know people who have suffered serious headaches when trying to quit drinking coffee; people who didn't whine and certainly don't think it "makes them cool" to.
        Secondly, the parent post was pointing out the hypocricy of US drug laws, and they're quite right- marijuana, for one, isn't nearly as addictive and withdraw, even for a very heavy smoker, is typically not bad at all. Also, a vast majority of people who have at some point smoked pot regularly quit by their thirties. Can coffee drinkers say the same?
      • Also, it is not that addictive. I have never had a problem quitting.
        I see.. you can quit anytime you want? :-)

        (Ten years ago, I heard a smoking friend really say she could quit anytime she wanted. I still needle her. :-)

      • PSSSHh... Quitting caffeine is easy. I've done it lots of times.
      • I can say the same. Yes, I can quit on the spot for regular periods of months. I actually enjoy being off coffee for quite some time.

        BUT

        I can also say that after one cup of coffee at work 30 minutes after I start working will allow me to absorb myself into what I'm doing. I'll get 'much more' done.

        -Tim
      • Caffeine withdrawal can definitely vary significantly in intensity. It does get pretty bad if you're unlucky. On the other hand, it's very rarely worse than a sinus infection. It's not something to belittle, but it's not something to worry too much about, either.

        It's really hard for most people to stay off of caffeine, I think, primarily because a regular low dose of caffeine doesn't have particularly significant side effects, so there's very little motivation to quit for good.

        Personally, I drink a cup of
      • I'll second that "fuck you, please don't generalise your own biochemestry to the rest of the population". There's huge varience in withdrawl symptoms for every combination of drug and person, and just taking your own experiences as applicable to everyone else is just assine. I used amphetamines in high school and didn't have very bad withdrawl symptoms when I gave them up. But there's no way I'm going to take that and just assume that everyone else who does have a problem giving up speed are just chronic wh
    • ...which suggests that the sky wouldn't fall in if heroin was available cheaply in supermarkets.
    • Caffeine most certainly would not be a schedule I drug.

      Schedule I drugs are those highly addictive drugs that have no accepted medical use. Caffeine has a plethora of medical uses (most importantly for treatment of breathing problems and to increase the effectiveness of certain pain relievers).

      The abuse potential most certainly not on the same level as heroin. Indeed, there is some serious debate [psych.org] about whether caffeine is truly addictive at all.

      • Schedule I drugs are those highly addictive drugs that have no accepted medical use.

        Nonsense. Many Schedule I drugs are non-addictive, and a fairly good number of them were used theraputically with good results before they were unilaterally banned. "addictive and medically useless" may be the excuse they offer for classifying things Sched I, but it's not necessarily true.

      • Caffeine is actually very similar to cocaine, but caffeine is significantly stronger. Coca leaf tea is a mild stimulant popular in the Andes, and reportedly is as effective as caffeinated beverages without causing nearly so much twichiness. If, on the other hand, caffeine were used like cocaine is usually used in the US, it would be generally fatal.

        Interestingly, most cultures historically have used one of the mild stimulants widely while prohibiting others, with the "good" one chosen practically at random
    • If /. was just discovered today, it would be illegal to use in the USA.
      It would be a Schedule 1 drug, right next to heroin, cocaine, late night redeye programming sessions, pot, tobacco, kernel rebuilds, alcohol, marijuana, Everquest, peyote, Neverwinter Nights, etc, etc, etc...

      It satisfies the requirements of addiction, acute withdrawal, and abnormal body functions while partaking of it, along with long-term physiological affects similar to Cowboy Neal's.

      When you say you need your fix, you are closer to
    • Actually, cocaine is a Schedule II drug, not a Schedule I. The scheduling of controlled substances is *supposed* to be based solely on two criteria: medical utility and potential for abuse. Cocaine is still used as a topical anaesthetic in some types of surgery (including ophthalmic, IIRC), and so is assigned to a different schedule than those drugs which are purported to have no medical benefit whatsoever and a high potential for abuse: peyote, heroin, and ostensibly marijuana. (Apparently politics can
      • You're mostly right, but actually the Department of justice uses eight criteria:
        • The drug's actual or relative potential for abuse
        • Scientific evidence of its pharmacological effect, if known
        • The state of current scientific knowledge regarding the drug
        • Its history and current pattern of abuse
        • The scope, duration, and significance of abuse
        • What, if any, risk there is to the public health
        • The drug's psychic or physiological dependence liability
        • Whether the drug is an immediate precursor of a substance already
    • Schedule 1 drug, right next to heroin, cocaine, pot

      That doesn't mean possession of each of those are equally serious offences, I hope?
    • My test for whether something is really *that* addictive ...

      Would people sell themselves for another fix of it?

      Would somebody REALLY sell themselves for a cup of coffee? Would you sleep with someone you hate or are repulsed by just so you can get a cup of coffee?

      Get off the scare tactic wagon.

      • If a rock of crack sold for 50 cents (like a soda pop or cup of coffee), there probably wouldn't be crack whores.

        [Not that I can see somebody drinking one cup of coffee and getting addicted immediately; the high you get, while physically and mentally addictive, isn't so powerful that many people would be willing to trade their normal life for destitute caffine addiction.]
    • FYI, Cocaine is a Schedule 2 drug with morphine and friends. Im a pharmacist, and im looking at it right now on my wholesalers ordering system.. Its used in very dilute formulas for topical analgesia/vasoconstrictor in eye and nose/throat surgery.
  • That's exactly it. Same reason I drink a lot of beer in the span of a few hours than all day. It's the short term affects that are important to most people. I'm sure they could come up with a study that says if you injest the nutrients/sugar/whatever in two donuts through an IV drip over the course of a day it is much better than eating two in the morning.

  • Have to ask....... (Score:3, Funny)

    by MrIrwin ( 761231 ) on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @06:13PM (#9121292) Journal
    What does Java do for productivity?

  • Here's a good solution: (Score:4, Funny)

    by stienman ( 51024 ) <adavis&ubasics,com> on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @06:14PM (#9121301) Homepage Journal

    hostinfo
    ...
    slashdot.org 127.0.0.1
    ...
    -Adam
  • Small doses of caffeine at intervals in the day?! pfft!

    What about LARGE doses at regular intervals? I'd say that's best.

    Anyway, as for the small amounts, that's where Penguin Mints [thinkgeek.com] from ThinkGeek come in handy =P

  • Rx: "laziness disorder" (Score:5, Informative)

    by hey! ( 33014 ) on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @07:24PM (#9122053) Homepage Journal
    (1) Adequate sleep.

    (2) Daily exercise.

    (3) Sound nutrition.

    My personal experience: I'm a total coffee fiend. But since I've followed the above guidelines, I don't go through withdrawal when I skip a day and I don't have mid afternoon sleepiness.
  • If you are tired, sleep.
    • If you are tired, sleep.

      I would but I need the paycheck.

      Dear God, why doesn't someone do a useful study and figure out why I struggle to keep my eyes open all day at work but the moment I am home I feel wide awake!

      • maybe your inner clock isn't correct. try to take melatonine for a week, at about 23:30 (bit earlier if you stand up at 6.

      • Re:Innovative and radical, I know, but... (Score:4, Interesting)

        by Strange Ranger ( 454494 ) on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @04:19PM (#9131607)
        Hey there is no such thing as a "correct" internal clock. And it certainly doesn't help that we still live by an agrarian schedule even though none of us are agrarian workers. Don't believe it? Then explain why if you arrive late it's a HUGE deal, but if you stay late no one cares at all. We still live by the agrarian clock and we still live by agrarian prejudices that place your internal clock (and mine) at the bottom of the abused minority list. Ben Franklin is a total asshole for coining that self fulfulling quote of his - "early to be and early to rise..." With the stroke of his pen he turned NON-morning people into second class citizens.

        Anyway, you'll NEVER "fix" your clock, because there's nothing wrong with it. The problem is with something I'm overly fond of calling "Circadian Discrimination". You're a gay mulato Muslim? NO problem! As long as you're a morning person.

        All you can do is work around it. Either by using sleep and wake techniques or by changing your schedule. You can make the early schedule Tolerable, or you can try to arrange an Enjoyable later schedule.

        The other thing that helps tremendously is a job that doesn't bore you to death.

  • energy and motivation (Score:3, Funny)

    by cookiepus ( 154655 ) on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @08:48PM (#9122778) Homepage
    Cocaine or ritalin are probably whay you're looking for. They will both provide you with energy and motivate you to do something.

  • ... a few of my friends (although not me yet) have been using NLP to get motivated, Bandler, Robbins, etc... It is scary shit, I've never seen anything like it, going from laid back/lazy to ultra-motivated, get the most out of every single minute mode. NLP is really worth looking into if you have motivation issues, and there's plenty of audio on the subject floating out there.

  • "Lazyness" is NORMAL (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @09:45PM (#9123236)
    When I left Uni and moved into the 'workforce', I often wondered why I found it so hard to actually do work. I mean, I did it, because I had to, but I really just felt so 'blah' about it all the time.

    I hadn't felt that way at Uni that I could remember and I really just couldn't place my finger on why I felt like that.

    Anyway, long story short, I left paid employment a year ago to go freelance, and it didn't take long for me to realise why I was feeling so lazy before. Put simply, it just takes me a while to get rolling, perhaps 6, 7, 8 hours between the time I get up and the time when I am ready to work. Once I'm ready then I am quite happy to work 10 hours straight without so much as a snack (provided the diet coke is close at hand of course).

    I learnt that trying to work before I was in the mood is simply counter productive, I'll be easily distracted, I'll be grumpy and I'll probably get frustrated. But if I just relax and be lazy for a few hours then I'll soon be ready to code all night.

    I had a similar philosophy when it came to studying at Uni (and school), if I wasn't in the mood for it then there was no point even trying because I wouldn't be able to concentrate so my time was better spent on other things until I felt like studying.

    My point is that lazyness is perfectly normal, everybody feels lazy sometimes, some more than others. If at all possible you should simply accept that you are feeling lazy and do -- precisely whatever you want to do; when you're ready to work you will.

    Of course if your stuck in the 9-5 corporate world then you're screwed - your employers won't understand that you would be far more productive if you could choose your own hours.

    • Ditto. I can't do any work until 2:30 or three, and then I'm rushing to leave by 11.

      Solution: Wake up at 1.

    • thank you for that.

      sadly... neither my employers nor my professors care that i am at my best when i sleep until noon and work until 4 am. for that matter, neither does the rest of the american world, which prefers that i do all my business between 9am and 5pm... times which, as we would both agree, i am basically asleep.

      i guess i've got a cosmic prescription for failure.

  • Get rid of caffeine (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Stevyn ( 691306 ) on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @09:51PM (#9123266)
    Instead of being hooked on caffeine throughout the day, you should cut it out of your diet. Humans have existed for thousands of years without caffeine so why does everyone think it's nessesary to function? You want to stay awake? Relax and go to sleep. Yeah, I know, easier said than done. But then tell me how taking stimulants throughout the day is going to help you relax?
    • Humans have existed for thousands of years without caffeine ...and electricity, and computers, and roads, and cars, and work hours, and watches, and clothes, etc.

      When you're at work and you have tasks to accomplish but are feeling to sleepy to do them properly, cafeine is a tool to enhance your productivity.
      Sure, its basically your boss medicating you so that you will be his tool, but if you're showing up for you're 9 to 5, you're already subjecting yourself to unhealthy living conditions for money...why n
    • While your overall point is good, you make assumptions and draw conclusions that don't necessairly follow.

      First, just because humans can survive without caffeine doesn't mean we should. I'm pretty sure your "hooked" on electricity but probably don't consider it a vice. Humans have existed without it for thousands of years and yet we don't seem to think its a problem. Yet it provides stimulation to keep us alert and awake (alarm clocks, Muzak, etc.) This is akin to what is commonly called the naturali

  • Not caffiene, but B12 (Score:4, Informative)

    by BryanForbes ( 611998 ) on Tuesday May 11, 2004 @11:32PM (#9123802) Homepage
    I have found that vitamin B12 is a better solution to keeping me awake. Not only does it keep you awake, but it keeps you alert as well. There have been numerous studies showing that B12 is good for keeping you alert. In fact, any good (read: not Red Bull or Rock Star, which are basically just sugar and caffiene, which will leave you in a blood sugar drop a few hours after you drink them) energy drink will have a high ammount of B12 in it.
    • Beer has a high amount of B12 in it, but it doesn't help me stay awake and alert a single bit, you insensitive clod!

      ;)

    • I used to love coffee but eventually switched over to the wonderful world of TEAS. I feel much better on a good green tea buzz than any coffee buzz and my stomach does too!

      I should also suggest yerba matte -- actually quite tasty and a different kind of herbal stimulant than caffeine

    • In fact, any good (read: not Red Bull or Rock Star, which are basically just sugar and caffiene, which will leave you in a blood sugar drop a few hours after you drink them) energy drink will have a high ammount of B12 in it.


      OK, what is a good energy drink then? What should we drink?

      red bull tastes like candy...

  • Marijuana. (Score:3, Insightful)

    by dynamo ( 6127 ) on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @03:44AM (#9124601) Journal
    Seriously, MJ is the best cure for laziness that I've ever tried. Just realize that set/setting matter. If you expect it not to work, it won't. But if you genuinely desire to get a lot done, and try it, in _small_ doses, you just may find things much easier to get a handle on both intellectually and emotionally. I have ADD, I have medication for it, and what I'm prescribed doesn't hold a candle to it, and is much worse in terms of wear and tear on the body.
    • MJ is the best cure for laziness that I've ever tried.

      I do not doupt that your account is true and informative, but I do believe the guy was looking for a legal way to beat laziness.

      Its hard to be productive when you're spending your days trying not to be shanked by all the murderers, rapists and crooked accountants the government decided you should spend the next 10 years with.

      • Re:Marijuana. (Score:4, Interesting)

        by slithytove ( 73811 ) on Wednesday May 12, 2004 @11:13AM (#9126779) Homepage
        I don't know of any states with laws draconian enough to send you to prison for any term, much less 10 years for posession of a personal-ish quantity. In some states you might wind up in jail for a few days (I did), but most counties give you a ticket as though you were speeding, which I'd say is the moral equivalent. Actually you might cause an accident by speeding...
        And, to second the grandparent post- I find that small quantities are very helpful in quieting my anxiety and distaste in doing things I'd rather not, like laundry, dishes, etc. I find it somewhat difficult to code while stoned, though not impossible.
    • Of course it is. MJ lets you concentrate. Too stoned to get distracted! I have ADD too, and me and my parents (I was in HS at the time) were told by medical professionals that were prescribing medication for me, that MJ does alot of the same changes that the medication does, with fewer negitive side effects. I use to stay up all night, Baked off my ass, and i would get weeks of programing homework done in 1 night. And i take pride in that it usually was many lines shorter, and cleaner than everybody elses.
  • I'm doing it right now! *sips 3rd Bawls*
  • For at least the last twenty years I have been following the medical beliefs around coffee, with it alternately being demonized and canonized.
    WRT addiction: without boring you with the details, some of us do suffer quite a bit when we give it up for a while. Quitting smoking was easier than giving up coffee, and that was no picnic.
    --- If you think it's immoral or stupid to walk a mile in my shoes, I think it's immoral and stupid for you to pass judgement on me.
  • just switch to cocaine... for real. its good, good for you, and you get mad shit done...
  • In 1990 I had a boooorrrrriiiinnnggg programming job customizing a mid-range Unix-based COBOL-written accounting package. Snore.

    On top of this I also was placed in the "air conditioner" room of my employer's "office" (the front 1/4 of his house) -- behind me was a very large window unit that pumped out A/C cold and white noise bold. Snore.

    So while our NCR Tower did have a couple curses games, there was no FrozenBubble or "Stay Awake" Quake to assist a poor coding monkey (eep). Falling asleep just meant

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