As far as the original question… I’m not sure how much caffeine I consume. I make cold brew coffee and I’m guessing it must be pretty strong because the days I get Dunkin’ Donuts coffee I feel the difference. So I guess I need to start watering down my cold brew down a bit more than I currently do.
I have about 12 oz of strong cold brew a day. Except when I have 12 oz of Dunkin’ iced coffee instead.
For sure. I have liver issues and coffee is supposed to be good for the liver so I’m not even trying to give it up. But I can’t miss a day. I’m definitely addicted.
I was just being snarky about the fact that I haven’t participated in any sexual activities in a couple of years.
That wasn’t obvious enough.
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And I was out of red font.
Caffeine doesn’t bother me unless I start drinking it around 4 or later. If I’m drinking diet soda in the evening as I sometimes do I might find I’m up until 1 AM.
Yesterday, no caffeine, not even chocolate 
This morning, woke up at 4 am 
I have very little sensitivity to caffeine. It will get me moving in the morning, but I can skip days without effects, and I can drink coffee at night and have no issues going to sleep.
We just got a Dunkin at the end of our street. Opened yesterday. Mr. NA just got back from walking the kids to school, and brought me a large iced coffee with sugar free raspberry. Mmmm mm.
I’m very fortunate in that for me, it is not. I have other addictions, to be sure, but that one never stuck.
I tends to have one coffee a day, Dunkin’s Medium Roast K cup, which is about 100mg caffeine near as I can tell. I sometimes have a diet coke. I sometimes have a V-8 energy (80 mg) or even 2, but that is on days I don’t drink coffee. I rarely have caffeine after 2 or 3 pm, bc it does keep me awake. Usually if I do that it’s bc I’m going to an event that will keep me out late.
I tend to have 2 lattes or 1 latte + 1 Americano in the morning which I think is a lot more caffeine than regular coffee, right?
On the weekends, I often get up, drink coffee, and then fall back asleep for the afternoon. I don’t know if that means caffeine is affecting me way too much, or not at all.
Edit: Espresso typically has 63 mg of caffeine in 1 ounce (the amount in one shot), according to Department of Agriculture nutrition data. Regular coffee, by contrast, has 12 to 16 mg of caffeine in every ounce, on average.
OH SHIT.
A latte tends to only have one ounce of espresso, so generally actually has less caffeine than an equivalent sized cup of coffee.
Not really oh shit. Starbucks probably has 3 oz of espresso in a 16 oz hot drink, so 189 mg caffeine. If you are drinking drip coffee black that’s 192 mg for 16 oz.
Me, I’m guessing I ingest probably 300 - 500 mg of caffeine depending on the day. I start with a “hydrating energy drink mix” first thing in the morning which has about 150 mg of caffeine plus a bunch of other “healthy/hydrating” things. After working out and getting ready for work I typically have a 20 oz iced cold brew black (generally 3 oz home made concentrate which I estimate to be about 150 mg of caffeine based on the commercial concentrate it is supposed to imitate) and depending on the day I have afternoon pick me up gummies with about 50 mg of caffeine plus other “energizing” ingredients. Some days I might add in another cold brew but that is more of a “craving” thing than a caffeine thing.
In my 20s and 30s I basically drank hot black coffee all day until it was time to start drinking alcohol. I cut back to the 2 cups of cold brew at some point and recently (last few years) dropped the 2nd cup mostly to make it easier to hit my water goal.
Early in my career with exams, kids, and consulting, the coffee was about trying to stay awake but I would frequently go without coffee, or have 1 6-8 oz cup in the AM, on week long vacations without noticing anything so this seems like 1 drug that I would call a habit more than an addiction for me. I tried tea at various points too but it never seems to do the trick. It has generally been a flavor thing.
We do use the double shot setting exclusively 
Yesterday, no caffeine, not even chocolate
Last night, woke up at 3 am. Unrelated to cutting caffeine, life stress stuff, got a bit of sleep later
Today, drinking a decaf coffee, I’m so tired 
ETA and some chocolate after lunch
Hope your middle of the night mental stress list is shorter than mine.
Sadly this doesn’t usually get better as you age. Just saying.
Between kids having a bad dream and dog deciding she needs to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night it’s feeling like a brief wakeup at 3am is part of the routine now
