Caffeine Gum!

This year I made the grave mistake of scheduling work and classes on alternating days all at 8 am for the entire week. The ghost of my second year soul smiles on proudly because I've finally managed to have a normal sleeping schedule, but it's not the theoretical eight hours of sleep that has kept me alive and awake this entire quarter. It's a slow weaning off of caffeine through something that combines two of my favorite things: caffeine and gum.

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Something I discovered from the wisdom of my brother and his friend was this strange product. Available exclusively on Amazon, Military Energy Gum is a low-maintenance, high-functioning caffeine supplement.

It comes in three flavors: arctic mint, spearmint, and cinnamon.

So far, I've only tried out arctic mint. It does taste a little funky at first. After the mint flavor dies out a little, you can definitely taste a little bit of caffeine (which I didn't know actually had a distinguishable taste). 

Each pack contains five pieces of gum and each piece of gum contains 100 mg of caffeine. For reference, a normal cup of coffee - that's 8 fluid ounces - averages on 95 mg of caffeine. The package says to not consume more than 4 pieces in 24 hours, so be wary on just popping a piece of gum every hour.

Here are all the flavors basking in their glory of academic and sleep-schedule efficiency.

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I definitely think this is more efficient and surely more safe than caffeine pills, which I've generally ended up having disastrous experiences with. Caffeine gum is much more manageable and tasty in my opinion. Plus, each order comes with 24 packets of 5 pieces each, so one order per quarter should last you the entire 10 weeks. 

Buy it here!

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