[tc4me]

I've tried the L-Theanine + Caffeine combo. It works surprisingly well. I won't even think about doing a lot of caffeine without it.

Adrafinil is another good one that works, but the problem with this one is that the half life of it is so long that it makes it hard to get a good quality sleep the next night. That stuff will keep you awake for days. Strongly recommend smaller doses of it and not consecutively, because otherwise, your body won't be able to truly rest. A 300mg dose every other day is perfect, enough to work, but not enough to make it impossible to sleep.

The rest of them I don't really have much experience with. I try to be very careful when it comes to these sorts of things. I'm just afraid of where they could go.

Fair point. Lots of people also use nicotine as a nootropic to help clear their mind (myself included), or at the very least create a mental link with the feeling that they should use it to focus. But of course using patches and gum can lead to using cigarettes, and in less than a week of that you've got yourself a nicotine addiction. Lots of similar stories on Reddit, it's pretty common.

Me, I started smoking years ago when I worked at a restaurant in the kitchen. 17 or so.
Don't smoke often anymore, never really developed a full physical addiction like most people do, no matter what substances I was using (trust me, there are some pretty illegal ones there), but I see the concern that people have with it, especially since I do use gum as well when in class or when working with other people on something. It's one of those things I just don't recommend to people because the potential for abuse is so high, especially with its availability. People can get addicted to the weirdest stuff, crazy how the mind works.

Good morning, more than coffee, tea and Red Bull (original from Austria), I don't trust my body :-)

RedBull > any other energy drink. It has less caffeine than Monster and Rockstar, sadly, but all the other energy drinks are too sweet for me haha. All that sugar leads to a worse caffeine crash.

But Monster has new Tea flavours now, I've tried both the White Tea and Verba Mate and they're both really good. Not too sweet, and they actually kind of taste like tea. Not carbonated like soft drinks, either.

I remember loading up on No-doze and red bull to stay awake in classes. Never got crazier than that, and now I'm addicted to Red Bull. So maybe its a good thing I didn't try anything else.

Oh man, they always have No-Doze/No-Doz pills at every hackathon I go to for when they run out of coffee for the kids. I usually just go to the coffee table and ask for like five of them at the very beginning of the event because I know how fast they'll run out the second that the coffee supply finishes.

Good times.

I always end up being the only person in the group to pull a REAL all-nighter with no sleep. Everyone always dozes off for a couple hours near the morning. Thus, no one can blame me if something goes wrong or we don't have enough time, because I wasn't the one wasting time sleeping

RED BULL NO SUGAR !!!!!!   , 

Red Bull without sugar and 12-15 coffee, Today only 10-12 coffee, I no longer like Red Bull