Coffee every day

What does Veeky Forums think about coffee - especially the working lads?
I usually only never consume caffein before training.

But I am the type of person that is always tired, no matter how much sleep.
So if there is absolutely nothing to do or generally a very boring situation, I will get really sleepy and have go fight falling asleep.
Yesterday we had an 8 hour long presentation about a new technology, consumed coffee for the first time outside of preworkout. And it actually helped a great deal.

Basically everyone is always drinking coffee in work places.
Don't you build resistance really quick and thus make the effect void? That would throw away the only possible help when I really need to be awake in rare situations.

Do you drink coffee every day? Does it still makes you less sleepy?

People drink coffee because it's delicious. That's why they drink it every day at the same time (usually anyway), because if you do that the body has already produced a counter to the effects of caffeine. In other words, you become tolerant of it at times when you usually have it, but not at others. So the effect is negligible, except that it's delicious.

I used to drink coffee every day, but it gave me hectic gas and stomach pains, and i always had to take a shit pretty much straight afterwards. Now i just have the occasional one on the weekend. I've noticed ever since i stopped drinking it daily, i don't wake up tired as fuck in the morning.

I see.

So just as I thought - I use it only in an "emergency" situation, where I really need a boost so I don't fall asleep.
And if I drink it daily, like everyone else, the effects will vanish entirely?

Its true, like most drugs out there, you take it at first for the feeling it gives you, but after a while you end up taking it out of necessity to feel normal if consumption is daily like coffee. Your brain will always try to balance itself, that is why when you have that very first cup of coffe/ciggarette/most stimulants, you feel fucking great because you have a surplus of neurotransmitters.

It really depends on dosage, your body chemistry (because some people are more sensitive than others to certain drugs, this does not include the mechanism of drug tolerance) and how frequent you use a drug.

"Moderation is key", is very often neglected advice, it's not that it is hard to understand, it is just that urges are hard to resist, we always want to feel 100% or more (who doesn't), but understanding the importance of balance when it comes to your brain and the usage of drugs will benifit an individual greatly.

Those who do not consume any psychoactive drug(a chemical substance that changes brain function and results in alterations in perception, mood, or consciousness) need not worry.

I used to drink coffee everyday, in the end i drank coffee to satisfy my coffee cravings [that is the truth], though i didn't like this, so i added the justifications that;
1. caffeine gives me energy,
2. makes me more awake.

These are also both true, but become less apparant the more coffee you drink over time. With a high, later comes a low/crash, for an in the moment thing coffee is ok, but after a few hours you start to crash and need another one to stay at a high, this is a bit costly on your brain as it will need to work harder to continue to go back to a balanced state, too much caffeine will mean that your brain my not be able to compensate for all the neurotransmitters used during the high and that is when things can go wrong.

I'm not saying to not use coffee, its fucking awesome, moderation is key.

>And if I drink it daily, like everyone else, the effects will vanish entirely?

Well, kind of. You will notice its absence at the times when you usually have it, and you'll feel as though you get a boost when you have it. But that's just normalizing yourself.

>And if I drink it daily, like everyone else, the effects will vanish entirely?

You're way overestimating the diminishing returns.

Drink it all the time. Doesn't make me less sleepy, I can drink it before bed no problem.

>hectic gas and stomach pain

It's the oil in the coffee, user. Coffee beans are oily, sometimes that oil roughs your stomach up a bit. Try high-caffeine black tea if you want the kick without the oil.

No, not entirely. You become tolerant to the jittery overstimulated feeling, but not to the wakefulness. This is a good thing.