Smoking and Energy Drinks
According to a stop-smoking webpage, nicotine somehow doubles the rate by which the body depletes caffeine. That is, in a normal person, caffeine depletes by half in about 5 hours. In a smoker, apparently, caffeine depletes by half in just 2.5 hours. This may be why some smokers have trouble sleeping.
Just an interesting note for all the smokers out there getting short-changed on their energy drinks.
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I meant to say, “smokers trying to quit have trouble sleeping.” You’re right, it depletes faster in a smoker. I was trying to point out that if you ingest normal caffeine levels and stop smoking, the caffeine may have more of a lasting effect than they’re used to.
Good catch Beau! The problem is what happens when quitting. If they continue with their normal caffeine intake their caffeine blood serum levels will skyrocket to 203% of normal baseline as indicated at the following study link. If a quitter can handle doubled caffeine consumption without additional anxiety symptoms then it won’t present a problem. But what about those who can’t.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9022872&dopt=Abstract
YEAh your right i qiut smoking 8 months ago And I have got all or most of my energy back since then and it feels good for all those people tryin to quit. Try cold turkey and have somone hold all your money that would go to smoking and it will prevent you from buying. P.S It helps
umm just so you know this article makes a mistake… you say that smoking makes caffienne go away QUICKER, so why would this make it hard for smokers to sleep? with less caffiene this should be easier…
Next time read the replies first Sam…
…I did.
Yeah Sam, that was a really dumb thing to say.
jeez Sam.
Also, I’m using this as a reason not to quit smoking. kthx !
grrowl, haha. yea man i feel u on tht 1
you know, they should make a smoking thread
Sorry, but if caffeine depletes by half in 2.5 hours in smokers or twice as fast as normals then shouldn’t their caffeine levels be depleted faster, and therefore there should be less on board when they are sleeping assuming the smokers and normals drink or ingest the caffeine at the same time?