I know how that sounds, but its a serious question. Almost everyone I know says they cant operate without a coffee in the morning or throughout the day, and that it helps them wake up. For me, all it does is make me anxious, without any positive effects. I don’t feel like I have more energy or that im awake than before.
I quit it for 7 months recently and after getting over the insane withdrawal symptoms (headache, brain fog, intense teeth grinding at night), my energy levels were so consistent thru the day. My sleep was noticeably better even if I couldn’t get a full 7 hrs in. Gotta make another run at it.
I got full blown ADDICTED to diet pills and energy drinks about 6 years ago. Lost 45 lbs in about 6 months and ended up in the hospital before I was able to find the will to stop. Now, even after 6 years, a cup of coffee has absolutely zero effect on me. Doesn’t have enough caffeine in it. I occasionally drink a energy drink and it’ll give me just enough boost to wake me up if I’m feeling sleepy but I haven’t felt a jitter or a jolt in 6 years. So yes you can definitely build up a tolerance.
I don’t drink coffee at all and don’t feel the energize effect of caffeine.
I had a bad experience with coffee in uni which ended up with me calling the ambulance.
Everyone else in my office operates on coffee and my boss looks visibly miserable without his morning coffee.
While caffeine tolerance IS a thing there’s also a genetic component, apparently! When I did one of those gene tests it had categories for how likely you are to get energy from caffeine and how likely it is to cause you anxiety based on specific genes! So you might not have the right genes to get a lot of caffeine energy. I was super lucky and don’t get much energy from it but get plenty of anxiety from it. Yay, science!