I’m I addicted?
When you read the title you might be thinking what is it this guy might be addicted to is it drugs, Porn or weed. Well hold your horse and hung on tight let’s find out.
Addiction doesn’t necessarily mean you taking drugs frequently and not being able to stop your self or watching way too much pornography or even taking weed and other substances. It comes in different ways that sometimes we ignore and it slowly kills us in one way or the other.
I remember a friend of mine who got so addicted to gambling to an extent that he used his school fees to stake bet and lost, he was later expelled for not paying his fees. As if that was not enough, his aunty owned a mobile money business which he handed to him to run since he didn’t have any work to do. This guy used all the business capital to gamble and lost again. His aunty was so mad that she sacked him out of the house. Addiction is a serious issue that needs immediate solutions.
Let’s take me for instance. As a student you need to study to pass your exams and you can’t do that without learning. And the best way I can learn is in the night when everyone is sleeping. In other to be awake at night, I would always buy an energy drink to keep me up at night so that I will be able to carry out my learning effectively.
I do this frequently and I felt like I’m ok. I remember once having a chart with a friend of mine concerning how harmful taking in too much caffeine is. I told him to chill out I only took one bottle a night. little did I know that it’s habit that is growing in me. Fast forward to now, I’m an undergraduate student at the university currently on break and I can’t seem to stop drinking the energy drink at night. I always feel kind of tasty and when I try to drink water, I don’t get satisfied unless I drink the energy drink.
A picture of some of the energy drinks I have consumed in 2 days.
Instead of me to relax and sleep after a tiresome day, I would not be able to sleep because of the energy drink I took later that night. Because of not getting enough rest in the night, I always sleep a lot in the day. Another thing I have noticed is that anytime I wake up, my tummy kind of hurts.
The funny thing is that later in the night I will go out again any buy the energy drink. I have tried to stop buying the energy but the furthers I can go without taking one is one day.
I tried searching for some solutions on the internet but all to no avail. So I decided to blog about here in hoping someone might know something on how to stop this. I would love to read about your idea’s in the the comment section. Thank you for stopping by.
Running on energy drinks and staying up nights will lead to a blackout soon. Trust me, I've seen several cases. It may help you short term and harm you long term, big time. Energy drinks are not healthy in general, let alone when you abuse your body with so many per day. I would find another way to coop with the situation and don't expect others to solve your problem as you're the only one who can. Sounds brutal, but that's the truth.
Thank you for your comment. I will do my possible best to stay clean.
Trust me, you won't regret it long term.
Things like energy drinks, caffeine etc are supposed to be taken on extreme cases. By extreme I mean extreme. Say you have this promotional exams the next day and haven't even read a thing, that's when you consider taking such things.
You really can't trick nature. You don't have to stay up all night. In most cases, you may end up sleeping in the exams hall the next day and that's not what you'd want for yourself. Try cutting down or totally eradicating your energy drink intake to prevent long term damages eg insomnia.
Thank you for your valuable comment. I will heed to your advise.
I'm glad you would.
Have a great day ✨
The best way to get away from that stuff is to change the habits. Addiction to those substances like caffeine is difficult but it’s a process to get off it.
The best thing you can do is decrease the amount you’re drinking slowly. If you drink 2 per day, work your way down to 1.75 per day and leave a bottle with some at the bottom and dump it out. Then do that for 2-3 days then do 1.5 bottles and repeat the process. If you can do that slowly over a few weeks you can get away from it.
The other good thing to do at the same time is replacement. Replace water in there instead and finish off the energy drinks with some water. I wouldn’t go with another juice or something unless you have to, because water is what we need to be drinking anyways, especially to help our bodies get off the stuff.
I think you can get off them completely in about 4-6 weeks with doing it slowly. The other thing to keep in mind is you will feel like shit during this time most likely because your body is addicted to the chemicals. If you do it slowly like I think you can, you might not feel too bad but I think it won’t feel nice.
I’m glad you makes this comment. When I made this post, I spoke to a few friends of mine and he told almost the exact same thing you are saying now. I think if I’m able to reduce the intake of caffeine little my little I would be able to completely cut it out.
Thanks for you this information, I really appreciate