# Dealing with an addiction..

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**Created:** [December 7, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dealing-with-an-addiction/261680 "2011-12-07T22:51:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 9:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/dealing-with-an-addiction/261680/23 "2011-12-08T09:10:33Z")

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> [@GTG: Red Bull Air Race \*Detroit 5/31-6/01\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gtg-red-bull-air-race-detroit-5-31-6-01/46571/35):
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> You don’t drink enough, thats nothing compared to my “normal” day over the past 6 months. Your body like any other drug becomes dependent on it, it expects it and when it doesnt get it, it says FUCK YOU
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> I drink ~6 cups of coffee a day with at least 2 20OZ redbulls… not counting maybe a soda in there, not proud of it at all, its royally fucking up my body, but it gets out of control and you don’t even realzie it.
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> If i don’t have a cup of coffee when I wake up, or wait til mid morning, i get the worst headache thats damn near impossible to recover from…
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> This will be the 3rd-4th time ive started to ween myself off of caffeine, this time around im going to make sure I do not go overboard with it again. Going to stop drinking soda, decaff coffee in the morning, maybe a cup of tea throughout the day if I really need it, but in more ways then one energy drinks seriously fuck up your body.

I lol’ed when i walked into your work the other week and saw that massive redbull :rofl

But yeah, best thing to do is slowly ween off caffeine.

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