Alcohol and caffeine

Advice & Questions
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Alcohol was my DOC and with the help of you folks here I’m almost 6 months sober (whoop!!)

Watching and taking in as much as possible about sobriety, a lot of the information refers to addiction but spans across a range of substances.

One thing that comes up is the replacement of one addiction with another, I have gone thru this myself when I used to smoke, I went from chain smoking to chain drinking one just replacing out the other…

Now life is pretty good without either of those things, but I do drink coffee and my caffeine intake is medium to high. I didn’t think this was anything to worry about but am keen to get other people’s thoughts.

Also, when you quit your DOC did you find that your caffeine intake went up?

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Yep, 100%. I try to keep it to 200mg a day. There are days when I’ve had 600mg though, and that’s definitely way more than is healthy. I never drank that much caffeine when I drank alcohol.

I think a lot of it has to do with boredom and getting tired more often because I’m not distracted by alcohol.

I’d say 6 out of 7 days a week I’m successful at sticking to 200mg or less. I usually drink my preworkout supplement first thing in the morning before I workout and then I’ll have 1 energy drink or 1 cup of coffee at some point during the day.