Caffeine pills are more easily employed in a lot of situations.
For example, you can easily bring along a pill to random occasions where you think you might need a quick boost.
Or you can experiment with them: for a little while, I have been trying out on alternate days Anders Sandberg’s caffeine-pill-wakeup idea (where when I first groggily wake up, I take a caffeine pill I left on my bedside, and then go back to snoozing; in theory the caffeine will enforce wakefulness, rather than me hitting the alarm clock and going back to bed for another hour). It would be very difficult to do this if I had to get up, prepare a cup of green tea, drink it, and then go back to nap.
I take a caffeine pill I left on my bedside, and then go back to snoozing
I did this for a while, which pretty much forced me out of the habit of snoozing. Bright lamps timed to an hour or so before I wake up also helped. I wonder if light through the eyelids is enough for hormonal regulation.
Not as far as I can see. I’m not a fan of tea or coffee, so my only viable source of caffeine is either soda or pills. In this situation it’s obvious pills win out. If you enjoy green tea then stick with it.
Maybe buy some pills for the odd occasion when you need caffeine but don’t have any tea on hand?
As a green tea drinker, is there any benefits that I would be missing if I switched to just caffeine and theanine pills?
Caffeine pills are more easily employed in a lot of situations.
For example, you can easily bring along a pill to random occasions where you think you might need a quick boost.
Or you can experiment with them: for a little while, I have been trying out on alternate days Anders Sandberg’s caffeine-pill-wakeup idea (where when I first groggily wake up, I take a caffeine pill I left on my bedside, and then go back to snoozing; in theory the caffeine will enforce wakefulness, rather than me hitting the alarm clock and going back to bed for another hour). It would be very difficult to do this if I had to get up, prepare a cup of green tea, drink it, and then go back to nap.
I did this for a while, which pretty much forced me out of the habit of snoozing. Bright lamps timed to an hour or so before I wake up also helped. I wonder if light through the eyelids is enough for hormonal regulation.
Not as far as I can see. I’m not a fan of tea or coffee, so my only viable source of caffeine is either soda or pills. In this situation it’s obvious pills win out. If you enjoy green tea then stick with it.
Maybe buy some pills for the odd occasion when you need caffeine but don’t have any tea on hand?