How do I survive a work day without caffeine?

[jewbacca117@lemmy.world]

Sorry boss, I'm sick today I won't make it in

[contramuffin@lemmy.world]

Headaches and extreme drowsiness suggests caffeine addiction. You may want to consider decreasing your caffeine intake slowly over time. As for working without caffeine, unfortunately, that's a bit more complicated. I assume that you have difficulties with getting up in the morning, hence the need for caffeine. That might then imply that you are simply a night owl. These things are biologically hardwired into your DNA, and while night-owl-ness is known to change as you age, there's genuinely nothing that you can do to make yourself into a morning bird.

You can try dimming the lights after sunset, that might help at least a bit with going to sleep/waking up earlier, which might help lower your need for caffeine

[ourkaos@lemmy.today]

No-Doz is 200mg a pill.

I'm probably a terrible metric because I work nights and probably have a skewed view/high tolerance, but that doesn't seem like a concerning amount.

[usernameblankface@lemmy.world]

Hmm, you're right. Recommended dosage afik is 400 mg a day, so 2 pills several hours apart would be the limit. Idk if they're timed release or if they really hit you with 200mg at once, I haven't tried them. Nutricost brand 100mg pills are way cheaper, so I stick to them.

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

Excedrin with caffeine. Won't help with the drowsiness, but should be suffecient to get rid of the withdrawal headache.

[blackbrook@mander.xyz]

How much tea do you usually drink? coffee has quite a lot more caffeine then tea. just slam a small shot of coffee.

[vga@sopuli.xyz]

Taper out, your body and brain will get used it it in about a week or two. If you're like me life will stop having meaning as a side-effect. My longest time away from coffee was 3 months, and my mind did totally not get used to it in that time.

I have no doubt about coffee being a pretty hard (even if benevolent) drug.

[phegan@lemmy.world]

I went caffeine free a while ago. The first 7 days were terrible, after 7 days you normalize and are fine.

[cracks_inthewalls@sh.itjust.works]

Short term?
-Keep hydrated. This one is key.
-Take an OTC painkiller for the headache.
-Splash your face with really cold water a few times and go for a brisk walk during a break/lunch period (when I was in office my lunches were pretty small/quick to eat to maximize doing-anything-else time, YMMV).
-Depends on your working environment, but if you have the ability to do at least some of your work standing, stand.
-If you're crazy drowsy and just need some means to stay conscious until clock out, a rubber band on the wrist can help. If you start to space out/feel your eyes start to close, give it a snap. Not the greatest thing, but a little pain can release some useful endogenous chemicals.
-If anyone has little candies in the office, ask if you can take some. The sugar in well-timed doses can help a little.

Medium term?
-When you get home, pack up some dried tea/tea bags of acceptable quality, and immediately place it in your 'going to work' kit (bag, car, whatever) so you have a stash in case you forget to make a thermos/whatever of tea the following (and subsequent) mornings.
-Go talk to whoever stocks the tea at work and let them know they've expired. They may not drink tea themselves, and if no one else has brought it up they may not know/haven't checked in a while.

Long term?
-Ween yourself off of caffeine. Slowly start swapping out your tea stash with herbal teas with no caffeine content (some are quite tasty), and reduce the amount of caffeine you're inbibing bit by bit until it's 0.
-Work on adjusting your sleep schedule.

[wabafee@lemmy.world]

Listen to music, keep your feet moving while working.

[aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Cold turkey on caffeine - takes about a week and a half to get over the addiction and you'll be sleepy and have headaches for most of it.

After that you'll be perkier than before and will probably even sleep better (depends on how late your last caffeine intake of the day was before as it mainly works by you feeling sleepy earlier and naturally going to sleep earlier).

You can still take something caffeinated once in a while and you will really notice the effect of it once your body isn't hooked on the stuff (just don't to it too often or your body will go back).

You see it turns out that when you're addicted to caffeine you actually require regular caffeine intakes merely to be at your normal baseline level, and will be below it without the caffeine, whilst for those who are NOT addicted to caffeine taking it actually umps them up above baseline (I once read of a study about it but don't have the link anymore).

If you actually like the taste of coffee and the coffee habit as I do, switch to decaf. If you have hot water at work, buy instant decaf and make from that yourself.

If can't be added getting over the caffeine addiction, do you can use instant coffee instead of instant decaf.

[bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works]

Captagon

[octavio@lemmy.world]

I don't take caffeine so that I survive the workday.

I take it so that my coworkers survive.

(I only answered with a joke because you've already gotten several high-quality responses, otherwise I never would have done that).

[a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

hmm the coffee doesn't sound like it is prepared well for you. you might wanna try a french press, which has a way finer taste!

[nigelfrobisher@aussie.zone]

You don’t.

[shayeta@feddit.org]

Sleep and proper nutrition. Hell, it could be some underlying medical cause. Get a check-up and do some blood work.

[ziltoid1991@lemmy.world]

Okay, then get me a job that not only allows me to not wake up every day 6:00 in the morning (8:00 would be ideal), but also pays well enough to cook twice, so I can eat well while my mother continues to eat her Hungarian junk food but in child portions to not get fat.