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Caffeine pouches, explained

Plain answers about caffeine pouches, written by the people who make PAX and checked against the research. Every page says where its numbers come from, and the only thing for sale is one button at the foot of each.

• Caffeine pouches: myths and factsNicotine, fibreglass, gums, how many a day, and whether a pouch works faster than coffee. Eleven questions answered straight, including three where the honest answer is not good for us.
• Are caffeine pouches safe?What the regulators say about caffeine at these doses, what nobody has studied yet, who should not use a pouch, and what to do if one disagrees with you.
• Caffeine pouches vs nicotine pouchesSame tin, same bag, different thing inside. How to tell which one you are holding, what is in each, and an honest word on dependence.
• How to use a caffeine pouchWhere it goes, how long to leave it in, whether you can swallow the spit, how many a day, and when to use one and when not to.
• Caffeine pouches in New Zealand: every brand comparedEvery pouch sold from a New Zealand store in one table: caffeine per pouch, price at the source, caffeine per dollar, added vitamins and taurine, and which brands also make nicotine pouches.
• Caffeine pouches vs energy drinks vs coffeeA pouch next to a coffee and a can: caffeine per serve, sugar, what each costs per serve in New Zealand, and what you carry. Including the rows where the coffee or the can wins.
• Sick of energy drinks? What actually changes if you switchWhat you are actually getting from a can, what changes if you swap it for a pouch, what stays exactly the same, and how to switch without doubling your caffeine. Including when a sugar-free can does the same job.
• The 3pm slump: what to do about it without a second coffee or a canWhat a second coffee at 3pm does to your bedtime, what a can adds in sugar, where a pouch fits, and when the right answer is no caffeine at all.
• Caffeine on a night shift: how much, when, and when to stopHow much caffeine a shift can carry, when in the shift it should sit, and where to stop so you can sleep when you get home. Caffeine does not make up for the sleep you did not get, and the page says so.
• Caffeine and a long study block: what it can and cannot doFor adults doing a long block of study: how much across a day, when it should sit, what it costs against cafe coffee, and the honest limit of what caffeine does.
• Staying awake on a long drive: what works, what does not, and where caffeine fitsNZ Transport Agency's advice first: sleep, breaks every two hours, stopping the moment you feel sleepy. Then where a pouch honestly fits, and when it does not.