Addicted to energy drinks.

IMO strive away from energy drinks, If you don't feel u can "Cold turkey" it, then just take a drink or two and put in the fridge or off to the side.

Usually a day, I drink around 12 pepsi/coke some rootbeer, and 4-5 cups of coffee, been doing this 4-5 years lol. I also have 2 kids.

Try to get alot more sleep, Try to go to bed around 2-3 hours before you usually do, Just force yourself to quit drinking them. Don't look back, Try to find something else, You said "Pop" Gets boring, well keep getting different flavors or try "Vitamin Water" WHICH I LOVE NOW i just don't buy it much.

Think about it, If you spend that much money on energy drinks, Try to save your money, Set a goal. Spend it on something else, But if your drinking 7 a day, Then tomorrow only focus on a few, But IMO ITS WAY BETTER TO DO COLD TURKEY just stray away, I know it's harder said then done, It can become an addiction, But best way to do it, Is to replace the habbit with another habbit, if you want if you feel the "NEED" to do drink, Go jog, Go do something healthy, after awhile you will lose the erge to drink.




JUST REMEMBER TO QUIT YOU MUST WANT TO QUIT.

 

Simple solution, drink energy drinks that are only filled with vitamins. Most come with vitamins B6+B12 and a dose of over a normal 10 day span of daily intake. A surge of B vitamins not only boosts your blood flow but also speeds up your metabolism, giving you weight loss + energy.

 

HOLY S*** alot of people replyed I'm only answering the ones that deserve to be answered..sorry for the other people not a big fan of typing

The money i get to buy the energy drinks is myself i work for the money i have 2 jobs..one for my dad he has an online buisness..i would post website but its advertising...the second job is at teds hot dog it might only be in buffalo new york.. I dont this no1 has ever given me money to buy an energy drink..someone have bought me 1 before but thats one time..

YESSS Thank you!..yea alot of people this that caffine only makes you hyper...and my dads friends son died..he died around juneish..he didnt over dose..he got a really rare disease from the energy drink or some s*** like that.

Yea today I only had one energy drink but it was a 24 oz and i usually get 16 oz so its like an energy drink and a half and i had a 1 liter of tea...i do like tea

i may try it for the heck of it but i'll have to buy online cuz there is none in stores near me cuz its imported from italy its not popular.

hahaaa I would never expect an adult with on this forum that is mostly for runescape. the only pop i like is all pepsi products i dont like coke sorry for all coke fans but I HATE IT :embar: also I love vitamin water but i can only drink like 2 every week

 

Just wanted to add because I forgot to say earlier.. if you do drink a lot of energy drinks try to stay away from activities that would normally get your heart rate up. It's possible for anyone with a perfectly normal heart to die from a heart attack when combining physical activity with drinking lots of energy drinks.

Btw I respect you for choosing pepsi over coke l0l.

 

Thanks for the warning, I wasn't planning on working out while drinking energy drinks anyway. and yes pepsi is wayyyyy better

 

Well I agree with the others then, start drinking coffee. If necessary, pour the coffee into an rinsed and empty energy drink bottle. Make sure your rotate bottles every few days, however, as re-using them is cancerous.

 

I feel for you man, last summer i had the same problem. I probably drank atleast 1 a day for the entire summer. I had also been eating quite bad that summer to and by then end i thought to myself "hey, i want to make a change" and i did. This worked for me up until this summer when i started on energy drinks and sweets all the time. But now that the summer is over i am simply going to stop.

I personally think addiction is in your head and if you can convince yourself you don't need it you can stop, maybe i have a stronger will power then most but i'm sure you can do it

 

Sounds like a good idea..they have java monster that i have tried once and i don't like them but i like other cold coffee..in fact i like cold coffee more than regular hot coffee.

Yea i was never thinking how bad energy drinks were for you untill one day my friends and i were going to see vampires suck and i sneaked 2 Redbulls in the movie theater and when i opened one of them during the movie my friend (hes like 28) and idk if he was trying to scare me or not but he said that his friend use to be like me drinking energy drinks every day but then he got a kidney stone and after that he never drank an energy drink ever again. Then thats when i got interested into what he was saying and started looking up health information...then i came here. I think if he never told me then i would still be drinking shit load of energy drinks.

 

Question: How do you get these drinks?? They're expensive! Kill the addiction at the source.

 

I have 2 jobs 1 for working for my dad another at teds.

 

Oh okay, well if I was you i would realize how much money I'm wasting and how much I could buy with that. Energy drinks cost a lot and at that rate... wow.

Hope that helps.

 

Don't drink any energy drinks that claim to have any vitamins in them. This is for two reasons. The 'vitamis' they call the synthetic shit that they put into these drinks are of near no value to your body. You can't use them and they don't do shit. Not to mention the negative affect that the rest of the drink has on your body, nullifies the effect of any so-called vitamins.

Sleeping pills, are for faggots. They're not needed, anyone that tells you otherwise is simply wrong. The reason people use sleeping pills, is because they load-up on sugar/caffeine *other* during the day, which fucks their system around, making it harder to sleep.

Trust me, you want to drop these drinks as fast as you can, replace them with anything, ultimately you want to also eliminate processed sugar and white flour - but that's going a bit far for todays' society isn't it.

The sugar in these drinks also fucks your teeth, the acids imbalance your stomach, fuck your enzymes around (the shit that breaks down proteins and vitamins so your body can use it).

There are plenty of alternatives, and if you want to save money (and not look like a fucking dropkick), choose one!

(My mother is a hippy, so I've read some hippy books, and I know people who know stuff.) Listen to what I say, and do some research yourself - you'll find that synthetic shit like this, sugar, flour and a shit-load of the oils that is crammed into todays' food is really, really bad for you. Mainly because it's cheap, nasty shit that makes the shelf life of something far longer than it should be.

 

Yeah, I used to be hella addicted to em, it got to a point where 70% of what I drank was energy drinks. Per day I was drinking as many as 10-12 monsters, I started having chest pains really bad, and I would get a pain in my heart area and it would feel like a mini heart attack that would last for about 15 minutes or so. All I can say is just quit, flat out. That's what I did, it's hard to resist them, but it gets easier once you quit thinking about them. Good luck trying to quit.

 

If you have insomnia, you shouldn't be drinking energy drinks.
I like drinking one every now and then, but I wouldn't deem myself as an addict anymore.
Cut down on the energy drinks slowly and substitute it for something else.
I used to drink a lot of soda and I would drink a monster every day before school.
It was indeed a bad habit, but I forced my mother to help me manage my money better rather than wasting it on energy drinks and I got her to reduce the choice of beverages in the house.
Now, I usually just drink juice or (mainly) water.
Get a partner to help you out is my main point/advice.

 

If you're this easily addicted to something without chemically addictive properties, I'd strongly suggest you NEVER try alcohol, cigarettes, or anything of that nature... :S

 

shit bro just by ur typing i can tell your prolly wired as hell calm it down try to slowly stop drinking them.. cause if u quit cold turkey ur going to go through bad withdrawals... trust me this happened to me... but so i cut down from like 2-4 a day to like 2-3 then to 1-2 then to 1 then to 1 every other day and i just drank a lot of water and juice which is a great idea use the money your spending for em to get like gallons of apple juice... or gatorade or powerade

 

Withdrawals? For fucks sake. It's an energy drink.

Just stop drinking the bloody things.

My thoughts exactly. If it's the caffeine, drink coffee.. if that doesn't work, you just like the taste, and it's pretty pathetic that you don't have the willpower to sacrifice it for a reasonable lifespan.

 

Well I did hear that some if not most energy drinks had a certain type of drug in them. Even so, the average energy drink has the same amount of caffeine in 10 cans of soda, so the energy rush is probably what is more addicting.

 

This is true becuz i always keep thinking about what i want i never really think what i am useing all of my money on.

holy s*** wat crawled up your ass..but anyway yea i think i have had my first affect from the energy drinks..today i think it was mostly because i stayed up all night again but also i had 1 22 oz of Nos...which for me gives me the most effect but its not all that great taste thats why i don't drink it alot. so i see what u ment by unbalance of chemicals in your stomach.

woahhh 10-12 thats alot!!! for 10 monster energy drinks its like 20$ so every 10 days ur paying 100$...thats what i was afraid of going to. i hope i never get those :/

I did that with food last year when i was working out i asked my mom to buy healthy things like yogurt and stuff..but my mom never buys my energy drink i always do..so its kinda hard.

Too late ..but I never got addicted thats what im really confused about.

haha sorry for my double letters and stuff. yea thats what every1 has been saying i should do im working on it..i only drank 1 in the past 24 hours..but i'm having worse effects that i had with drinking energy drink..i use to only have little headaches but they would rarely show up. now i'm having stomach achs..i have 1 right now its been going on for 3 hours straight. I had some tums..so i know its got gas.

Yep alot of energy drinks Caffeine Equals 14 cans of coke..i seen the article but F*** COKE!!!

 

This is true becuz i always keep thinking about what i want i never really think what i am useing all of my money on.

holy s*** wat crawled up your ass..but anyway yea i think i have had my first affect from the energy drinks..today i think it was mostly because i stayed up all night again but also i had 1 22 oz of Nos...which for me gives me the most effect but its not all that great taste thats why i don't drink it alot. so i see what u ment by unbalance of chemicals in your stomach.

woahhh 10-12 thats alot!!! for 10 monster energy drinks its like 20$ so every 10 days ur paying 100$...thats what i was afraid of going to. i hope i never get those :/

I did that with food last year when i was working out i asked my mom to buy healthy things like yogurt and stuff..but my mom never buys my energy drink i always do..so its kinda hard.

Too late ..but I never got addicted thats what im really confused about.

haha sorry for my double letters and stuff. yea thats what every1 has been saying i should do im working on it..i only drank 1 in the past 24 hours..but i'm having worse effects that i had with drinking energy drink..i use to only have little headaches but they would rarely show up. now i'm having stomach achs..i have 1 right now its been going on for 3 hours straight. I had some tums..so i know its got gas.

Yep alot of energy drinks Caffeine Equals 14 cans of coke..i seen the article but F*** COKE!!!