Or can it, but in higher doses?
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Caffeine and nicotine are performance enhancing drugs, but only mentally. They keep you awake, they both raise your heart rate, they are both vasoconstrictors. Your brain gets faster, but it’s short lived. They do not increase performance for anything but rapid thought and problem solving.
There’s a reason that people do creative writing by taking a break every 15 minutes for a smoke and topping off their coffee. It works. It’s just short lived. Once you’ve OD’d on either, you will be sick, shaky and useless. A good method is one hit of nicotine every half hour or so, and keep your coffee hot. You find a baseline and you become very productive. Don’t go over that limit. Don’t OD on either. Usually, you just get sick, but if you have a heart issue, you can die.
But, yeah, the Red Bull performance enhancing thing is stupid. Red Bull keeps you awake at 10 times the cost of a cup of coffee and has less caffeine than a small cup of coffee so you have to drink them all day to keep awake where 3 cups of coffee will keep you burning for 12 hours at a Nickle a cup at home.
Also don’t smoke. Do as I say, not as I do.
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