Less smoking = less caffeine?

[Rachy_B]

So I've noticed that I've been quite tired of late. I put this down to the weather and the season but it occurs to me that there may be more to it. Since I quit the stinkies, my caffeine consumption has hit rock bottom! Yesterday, I only had two cups of tea! TWO! I'm originally from Yorkshire and this is bordering on sacrilegious! TWO!

It used to be that I'd put the kettle on and go outside to smoke. In the meantime, the kettle would have boiled and I could make myself a nice, fresh cup of tea but now I don't think to! This makes me very sad!

Has anyone else found that they've dropped their tea and coffee consumption thanks to vaping?

 

[Erncig]

Yes vaping and coffee just isnt the same as a cig and coffe, Kind of depressing to be honest

 

[el lobo furtivo]

I definitely have. Although, come to think of it I never correlated the two until just now. Just last week I had a horrendous headache the one day and the next was just exhausted by 4pm. I thought about it and hadn't had any coffee in TWO DAYS!!! I don't even understand how that was possible.

I had a morning ritual just like you did, make the coffee, go outside with the coffee and have a smoke, go back in, make breakfast, drink some more coffee, fill up a travel mug with more coffee, drive to work. I never smoked in my car so the morning cofffee/smoke was essential. Now that I can vape in my car, I stopped doing that so some mornings the coffee just doesn't get made. Weird....

 

[XeniaMike]

This is definitely true for me! Normally I carry a full thermos (equaling a whole pot) of coffee with me to work and have it throughout the day, and hit iced tea (I know you think that's gross) the rest of the day off and on. Since vaping started I barely get half way through the pot of coffee, and maybe just a touch of tea in the morning and evening. Isn't that a weird side effect...

 

[Erncig]

yes very weird, Is it because vaping isnt good enough or is it because vaping is too different.? That is the question

 

[markfm]

I'm pretty sure that I traded stimulants. I can vape in places where I couldn't smoke before, so use my PV rather than coffee. I don't really chain vape, but will take a few puffs several times an hour, depending on what I'm doing. I've been at 10 mg for a year, just dropped to 9, figure I'm running about the equivalent of a half pack of cigs' worth of nicotine per day, just that it's distributed more evenly.

 

[Bullette the Cowdog]

Yep. Me too.
It's quite curious. I was a coffeeholic...Drank coffee all day long. Now not so much.

I think what happened to me was that I got the shakes from vaping & my usual amount of coffee. So now I have 1-2 cups in the morning & water the rest of the day. Some days I have a diet Pepsi in the afternoon but not everyday.

Ain't vaping grand??

 

[DietSalem]

Not changed here. I don't drink sodas at all anymore, but I still start my day with 1 cup of coffee, and drink bottomless pots if we go out to eat.

 

[unloaded]

I went from a pot of coffee a day to a cup a day. And usually I don't even finish the first cup.

 

[Rachy_B]

I find it really strange! I don't even think about it anymore! There are days when I do drink more tea but I don't crave the caffeine like I used to. I literally used to drink litres of the stuff every day. Three years ago, I'd sit at my desk and be working on papers with a cig in one hand, a drink in the other and only put one down to type! I can't believe the difference and I'm sure its a good thing in the long run but I wish I wasn't so pooped!x

 

[molli]

I've definitely cut WAY back on the coffee, since starting vaping. This is not a bad thing.

 

[Princessdee]

I went from a pot of coffee a day to a cup a day. And usually I don't even finish the first cup.

I did exactly the same thing. (On weekends, tho, I'd have 2 pots)

I just don't want coffee anymore. My routine is the same (no kids here, mine is grown, so we smoked in the house) I just don't feel the urge to drink coffee anymore.

 

[glasseye]

I haven't noticed. I've always only had 2 cups of tea and every morning I think it's ambrosia from the gods. I have been vaping the tea flavors all day long though.

 

[Kelly Mo2B]

I still drink just as much coffee in the morning but I don't drink much soda during the day anymore. I'm usually too busy drinking enough water to keep up with vaping and don't have room left for the soda. lol I only have a drink of soda when it hits my throat hard.

 

[bigbells]

Me 2, or me 15 or whatever. Absurd quantities of coffee daily for many years, talking 80-100 oz per day. Now, I've gone over 48 hours a couple of times with no coffee at all.

Additional alcohol consumption, though, is filling the void for some reason, lol.

 

[SPM3]

Hi there Everyone,

I don't think I have noticed if my coffee consumption has gone down. I do have my morning cup and I have a Butterscotch e-juice I vape with the coffee. I do the same after dinner. I guess during the day I may have one cup in the afternoon. I have noticed my soda consumption is way down. I drink them occasionally, but not like I used too, which was almost all the time. Maybe we are all so concerned with staying hydrated that we sub water for coffee?

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[Ken_A]

My first response was I don’t normally drink that much caffeine anyway. But as I read this thread I realize that maybe I just went in from the back end, as it were. Too much Tea throughout the day was giving me heartburn, so over the last 3 years of my smoking career, I dropped from about a gallon a day to just a glass of ice tea a week. Looking back, I also started smoking more. I never thought about it, but since I now know that Nic is a stimulant similar to caffeine I must have been replacing one with the other. Then I switched to vaping. I vape about the same as I smoked my pipe before.
Strange correlation there.

 

[Destro]

was drinking up to 2-3 cups a day....now down to one but more due to financial reasons was buying a lot of coffee but now saving it for juice!
still enjoy a cup of joe with waffle juice though! delicious!

 

[bazmonkey]

My coffee consumption has gone down but I feel like the more constant intake of nicotine into my system is keeping me awake. I can vape well into the AM and not notice. In a situation where with analogs I'd get tired of going outside to smoke, I can vape on... for better or worse ;-)

 

[Grimwald]

I had to cut my caffeine...the shakes ya know. Still drink decaf, but strangely, not like I used to.