Is Mountain Dew an addiction?!
Is Mountain Dew an addiction?
Is mountain dew an addiction whats ur views ? many people drink it but it is rarely addvertised just on bilboards and when the x games are on tv.
Answers:
As everyone above has answered, you can definitely feel "addicted" to MD or any other caffeinated beverage. However, your body has become dependent upon caffeine due to repeated use (tolerance has developed). If you were to stop drinking MD you would suffer withdrawal, which in my experience was marked by a severe headache and bad mood. However, tolerance and physical dependence alone do not constitute addiciton. Addiction and abuse involve knowledge of the substance interfering with your life (relationships, work, etc.) and the person still putting forth significant effort to obtain the substance. Since it is doubtful that MD (or the caffeine within) is causing such harm to your life (as opposed to drugs like alcohol, heroin, etc.), I argue that it is not an addiction.
The only way to avoid or at least reduce withdrawal symptoms if you wish to stop drinking it would be to taper off the drink. Another suggestion would be to switch another soft drink with less caffeine for your MD and then taper off that. The less caffeine your body is used to the less difficult the withdrawal will be.
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I am a pharmacy student studying substance abuse. I also am a caffeine drinker! :)
I think it is. My husband's addicted to it. He drinks it most of the time lol.
its more likely a caffeine addiction.
The mountain dew the drink itself is not addicting, but the caffeine in it is. Just like any caffeinated drink, i.e. coke, coffee, tea.
anything with that level of high fructose corn syrup and caffeine is.
so YES.
stay away from non-natural soft drinks.
That's a good question. It might be an addiction because my dad can never stop drinking that stuff.
In the Usa Mountain Dew contains caffeine (in Canada it doesn't) and caffeine is addictive, so yea, it is.
huge
Caffeine
anything done in excess is an addiction
Since it has a lot of caffiene it can cause someone who drinks it every single day to get headaches of they stop. Once the body gets use to the caffiene it is hard to stop drinking. Same goes for Coffee.
Yes it is, for the same reason coffee is. Lots of caffeine.
drugs are addicting. if you want , you can give up drinking mountain dew
I personally don't drink Mountain Dew but Coca Cola is addicted, I have to drink at least one a day....
is it an addiction because of the caffeine in it and if anyone likes the taste of Mountain Dew, they will love to drink it everyday.
Mountain Dew is a soft drink. It is advertised all the time.
mountin dew in egypt tastes like pee
so the answer is yes.it's addiction for sure :P
Yes. I was addicted to it for over 15 years. Seriously, that's all I drank, and about a 12 pack everyday. It wasn't until I wanted to lose weight that I set it down and started drinking club soda so I could still have the fizz. I don't touch it anymore because now I think it's too sweet and makes me jittery.
Code Red is.
The caffeine in it is, my husband is addicted to it, he drinks it morning noon and night but gains no weight so he's lucky. I would imagine if he ever quits drinking it he will have some severe headaches from not getting all that caffeine.
I love Mountain Dew's taste. It eats right past my bad breath.
And considering it has one of the highest caffeine levels of regular sodas...
an 8oz cup of coffee typically has 104 to 192 mg of caffeine.
in a 12 oz drink...
mg Drink
55 Mt. Dew
55.5 Pepsi One
70 Jolt
41 Dr. Pepper
34 coca cola classic
37.5 Pespi
38 Big Red
44.4 Shasta Cola
43 RC
27 A&W Cream Soda
23 Barq's Root Beer (most root beers are caffeine free)
12 Lipton Brisk Tea w/lemon (pepsi product)
30 Lipton Iced Tea w/lemon (pepsi product)
120 Frappuccino mocha/vanilla (pepsi product)