The Dangers of Stimulants: Nicotine, Caffeine, and Alcohol

Daniel Fazo emphasizes avoiding nicotine and alcohol for optimal productivity while advocating for caffeine use.

### The Dangers of Stimulants: A Candid Exploration of Caffeine, Nicotine, and Alcohol
* 💼 Daniel Fazo, a successful entrepreneur, shares his personal struggles with stimulant addiction, particularly **nicotine and caffeine**, while generating **significant monthly income**.
* ⚠ He emphasizes the importance of **"stimulant maxing"** for productivity, comparing it to **compound interest in finance**, where **increased effort leads to greater results over time**.
* 🚬 Fazo recounts his journey into nicotine addiction, starting from **casual use** to a **debilitating dependency**, ultimately leading to **health scares** and a **costly hospital visit**.
* 💔 After experiencing severe anxiety and chest tightness during withdrawal, he began to reduce his nicotine intake gradually, highlighting the **mental fog and challenges** associated with this process.
* 🌿 Transitioning to a discussion on weed, he describes his brief experiences with it, noting how it **negatively impacted his creativity and productivity**.
* 🍺 Fazo critiques alcohol, revealing that he noticed a **significant boost in his productivity** when he abstained from drinking, linking this to his **overall performance and creativity**.
* 📅 He reflects on how the days following alcohol consumption affected his productivity, particularly emphasizing that **Thursdays were his most productive days**, coinciding with his **last drink**.
* 💡 Ultimately, he advises against stimulant maxing with nicotine and alcohol while endorsing caffeine as a **beneficial tool for entrepreneurs seeking to enhance their productivity and business growth**.

Today we're going to be talking about drugs. Now, if you don't know who I am, my name is Daniel Fazo. I've been an entrepreneur for about five, six years now. I'm a co-founder of Client Ascension and List Kit, making about $500,000 per month. And the entire time, I've been debilitatingly addicted to nicotine and caffeine. So, here's what we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about one, why you need to be stimulant maxing. Two, how I thought I was going to have a heart attack one time, and I thought I was going to die. Three, why weed is for losers. And four, my thoughts on alcohol. Now, before I get into this, I am not a medical professional, and you absolutely should not take any drugs at all, ever. And you need to assume this entire video is comedy and parody. Don't take drugs like ever. Don't do it. So, we're going to start out why you need to be stimulant maxing, saying, and I say

this as I have a Celsius here, and I'm going to have another Celsius after this. The best way for you to understand this is if you're competing with somebody, and this competitor of yours is absolutely stimmy the [__] out, like working 12-hour days. It becomes pretty apparent very quickly that you get outworked. Now, if you aren't familiar with the concept of compound interest, compound interest is when you have a bunch of assets, like say it's stocks, and the stocks pay you dividends, and they appreciate, and you reinvest the dividends back into purchasing more stock, and the value of the assets goes up. So, the base value of the dividends you get roll back continuously higher and higher and higher until you arrive at a point where, in 30-40 years, you have an absolutely disgusting amount of money. So, the same thing works with effort in your business because if you want to grow your business, it's typically produced by effort. So, if you put incrementally more effort in every

single day you very quickly start to lap many of your competitors, right? If somebody's working 4 hours per day and you're working 8 hours or 12 hours per day, very, very quickly, you absolutely lap and overtake all of them, right? So typically, caffeine is really good for that. Now, I would like to talk about zins, zins, and nicotine. And I think it was Alex Heros who said this one time. He says he does nicotine, but it's about 1 milligram. So here's the thing with nicotine. The maximum effective dose to get hyperfocus with nicotine is about one milligram, like one total milligram. Now, the problem with zins and all these other kinds of the vapes and whatnot, it's a profound amount of milligrams of nicotine, like absolutely disgusting amounts of nicotine. So a singular 3 mg Zin is three times the maximum effective dose of nicotine. You can very quickly see how this becomes an issue, right? And I'm going to explain to you what happened.

with me and all my nicotine. So, about four years ago, I was hanging out with this one girl a lot, and I never did any of this, but she was hitting a vape, and like, the vape is there, and I'm like, Give me the vape now. I'm hitting the vape, and it was always like, I don't buy vapes. If there's a vape, it's there. I'll hit it. But I was hanging out with this girl a lot, so I was hitting her vape a lot, and then she isn't there, and I'm like, Yeah, [__] it. I'll go get my own vape. So, now at that point, now I'm the guy who buys vapes. So, very quickly, I become debilitatingly addicted to nicotine. So, this lasts for like 3 years, and then I'm on Twitter, and if you're not on Twitter, there's like hella health people, and like, they just [__] s off you.

into like oh yeah bro it's cool to smoke unfiltered American Spirits. I was like [ __ ] all right. Like I had over to Miami. I lived in Miami for a little bit. I'm hanging out with guys like that. We're [ __ ] smoking literally unfiltered American Spirits. Then I start buying that [ __ ] myself. So there was a point in time where I was just, I became one, like just hit nicotine a little bit. Then I started buying the Vapes myself. Then I started smoking [ __ ] cigarettes. This became a [ __ ] problem when I started feeling some weird [ __ ] in my lungs one time. And I was like [ __ ] I got to stop this. So I just cold turkey stopped nicotine, just stopped it. So I don't know what the interactions are between like glucose, like if you have a big meal with a bunch of carbs and you're in a

nicotine withdrawal and a smoke in your lungs withdrawal. But one time I was sitting there, it was like day four, zero nicotine. I'm like, I'm like losing my mind, and I have a big meal, and it just like chest tightness. And like previously, I was getting like chest pain and stuff, and that's why I stopped. But like, I like at this point, I'm 4 days gone, I have a giant meal, and like chest tightness, and it's like this surge of like impending doom, like profound amounts of anxiety, and it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse and worse. And I was like, and I was with another girl at this time, my girlfriend at this time, and I told her, I was like, like heart rate is up, up, up, and I'm like, I told her, I was like, I think I'm having a heart attack right now. Like, I like, I can't breathe, like I literally can't breathe. I need you to take me to the

hospital right now, so we go to the hospital, and hilariously, this is so [__] inconvenient. I had just turned 26, so I was off my parents' health insurance, and I hadn't got new health insurance yet. So, I go to the ER, they do like a bunch of tests on me, they're like, Nothing is wrong with you, and I get a $115,000 bill from the hospital because I didn't have health insurance because it just lapsed. So, at this point, I'm like, I don't even know what to do because I can't breathe. I get bursts of debilitatingly impending doom, like I can't focus. So, it's the worst thing ever. It's an absolutely miserable situation, and I was like colossally [__]. So, then I started going over to zins. I started taking six-milligram zins, right? And things are going okay, but then just some weird [__] starts happening. I don't know, I think

they're putting weird [__] in the zins, and I started feeling weird. Like, it felt like a nerve problem, and sometimes, like, nicotine really [__] with your cardiovascular system, and like, your heart rate would go up, like, all the time. And it was like, it was a huge [__] issue. So, I went from sixes to threes. And if you immediately cut your nicotine intake by half, you're in withdrawal, like, you're 100% in withdrawal. And like, you get this, it's like fog in front of you, and like, you can't, like, it's hard to focus, like, there's just fog in front of you. So, I was on 3 mg for a while, and then the same [__] started happening again, like, the cardiovascular problems on the 3 milligram. So, I'm like, [__] now I need to go down. I need to go down more. So, I got 2 mg of nicotine.

gum, and I'm on that now. And then I'm going to go to 1 milligram lozenges after this. The problem is you [ __ ] stop taking it, and you just, there's this fog, and it's like [ __ ] like I'm completely [ __ ]. Now here's the problem with this. I require an absolutely [ __ ] ton of mental bandwidth to be able to prod to produce stuff right now. I typically have the most energy at like anywhere from like 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. where I just have like a bunch of caffeine. It's 9:58 a.m. right now, and I'm, I think I'm like 400 Mig of caffeine here right now. And I've had a little bit of nicotine today, and I'm like, I'm like [ __ ] turbo focused right now. In fact, I'm so turbo focused that I can sit down and make this [ __ ] YouTube video.

right now. But if I didn't have the nicotine and the caffeine, there's no way I can sit in front of this camera and talk to you, right? So, what I'm doing right now is going down, 'cause I was at the 6 mg, and then the 3 mg, and then the 2 mg, and then the 1 mg, and I'm adjusting myself to be able to be static at, like, I'll have, like, 1 mg, bang out some work, and then I'm good. So, the gist of this is, if you don't take nicotine, don't [ __ ] start. It's a really big problem, right? So, now I want to talk about, I want to talk about weed. So, um, in high school, I smoked it. I smoked a pretty good amount of weed, but I didn't like it. It was weird. And then, as I got older, I think maybe I was like, I was like 21 or something like that, and it would be about, like, 5 or 6:00 p.m., like, the sun

is going down like I got all my work done for the day and I would smoke a little bit of weed like literally one hit and the reason why it was one hit was because I would get this like 30-minute period of extreme amounts of creativity and like really really good ideas will come and I have my notepad and I'd go on a walk and I'd just be like on Apple notes on my phone and just like writing down ideas. The problem with this is that for the rest of the day I was completely [ __ ] and just eating a [ __ ] ton of food like just hyper dopamine dependent and then like and then if you do it for a sufficient amount of time you're just like perpetually tired all the time and it's it really because it's a downer so like Nick caffeine that's up Weed and Alcohol it's down like it it literally quite literally like it pulls your essence down so if you need to be producing profound

amounts of [__] and like talking to groups of people. You can't afford to be down all the time, so there's a pretty fair amount of people who would be really good at marketing in sales, but they're like, Oh no, I can't do that. I don't like speaking in front of people or doing it. But they would like it, and they would be good at it if they weren't constantly being pulled down by weed and alcohol, 'cause it's just smoking too much weed, and then you just have this anxiety that's always hanging around you because you're being pulled down all the time. Now I'm going to ask you a question that you're going to find really [__] interesting. Say if you're above the age of 21, and I started asking people this question, they're like, Wow, you're right. Let me, when is the last time you went seven days or even 14 days without having a singular sip of alcohol? 14 days.

not a singular sip of alcohol, and you ask this to enough people, and a lot of people are like, I might have been like [__] 18 years old the last time I didn't. I didn't have alcohol for 14 consecutive days, which is [__] crazy because alcohol is really [__] bad for you. Like, it's the definition of, it's literally a poison. It's [__] ethanol. It's like gasoline. It's [__] nuts. And the reason I'm saying this to you is because in November, I was, I, I was going on this like, like [__] turbo just level of production, just like making hella [__]. And I remember I was on a, I was on a business trip. We went over to a mastermind, me and my partners, and I'm like on the plane, and I'm turning [__] out. We're like at this

master. I'm turning [__] out and I'm like I'm writing vsl ad copy, YouTube stuff, post on LinkedIn, post on Twitter. It was so easy for me to just [__] churn out content like so. I didn't even have to think about it. It just flowed so easily. And I was wondering like why is this like how am I able to produce this [__] insane amount of just really good [__] like so easily without even trying. And towards the end of The Mastermind like it it it's like oh it's party time now like let's all start drinking. So I start drinking um and then we're talking and it's like yeah bro like I've been grinding so hard like it's nice to finally just like sit down and drink. And I'm sitting there and thinking I'm like I haven't drank alcohol in three [__] weeks. And then it occurs to me I'm like holy [__] like that's why I was

able to produce this profound level of production was because I didn't [ __ ] have alcohol, and this is really interesting too because I've always, I've always, I've always, it was like a mental no in my mind where I always liked Thursdays. The day of the week I liked the most was Thursday. I always felt I was so productive on Thursdays to the point where I would not do any meetings on Thursday because I know every Thursday I'd put out good [ __ ]. I don't know why, like Thursdays are just really good. And then upon thinking of it, I'm like, why, but [ __ ] why, what, why is Thursday so good? And then it occurred to me, Thursday is so good because it's the day farthest away from my last sip of alcohol. And then Friday, I pride drink, like I'm not like a debilitatingly bad drink or get like absolutely hammered, like I just have some drinks. And like a Frid, like you go out with someone, you have like one or

two drinks, but it doesn't matter. Like, Thursday is just the day that was farthest away from me drinking, and now the problem is if you're like 25, 26, 27, or you're even 30, whatever the [ __ ], like you're going out on dates, and you're like dating, you're with girls, like you go get drinks, like that. That's like the thing to do. And if you exit the house for literally any [ __ ] reason at this age, it typically involves alcohol. So I'm like [ __ ], if I just don't drink, I can produce an absolutely disgusting amount of really good work. So my advice to you is one, I've never had an issue with caffeine. I can just stop caffeine. It's like not a problem at all. Like nicotine is a problem, like very much is a problem. Alcohol is a problem, like it really just is. So you should 100% be stimulant maxing caffeine, but you shouldn't be stimulant maxing.

nicotine and alcohol. If you are going to stimulate Max nicotine, one milligram lozenge like Max. Don't even go above that like nothing happens above it. All you do is get yourself addicted. It's insane to me how it's not criminal that the [__] zins aren't just 1 milligram. Like why is it three? There's no reason for it to be three. That's so profoundly higher than the maximum of effective dose. It's so strange to me, right? So if you're an entrepreneur and you want some resources about how to help grow your business, you should jump on my email list. I'm going to leave a link to it in the description, and you should go watch this video now. And that's it for me. I love you. Goodbye.

Why you need to be stimulant maxxing

Daniel Fazio

Daniel Fazo's Thoughts on Stimulants and Drugs

Daniel Fazo, an entrepreneur, shares his struggles with nicotine and caffeine addiction while running a successful business.

He advocates for "stimulant maxing" to outwork competitors and grow a business, comparing it to the concept of compound interest.

Fazo discusses the effective dose of nicotine and the problems with high-dose products like zins, emphasizing the potential issues they can cause.

The narrator's nicotine addiction began after frequently using a friend's vape, leading to them buying their own.

Over three years, the addiction escalated to smoking unfiltered cigarettes.

After experiencing weird lung sensations and intense withdrawal symptoms, the narrator decided to quit nicotine cold turkey, but faced severe anxiety and chest tightness during the withdrawal process.

Struggles with Health Insurance and Nicotine Withdrawal

The narrator experienced a $115,000 hospital bill after their health insurance lapsed, leading to debilitating symptoms.

They turned to nicotine zins for relief, but faced withdrawal and cardiovascular issues while trying to reduce their intake.

Currently on 2 mg of nicotine gum, they are struggling with focus and mental bandwidth but are using caffeine to boost their energy and productivity.

The Impact of Nicotine, Caffeine, and Weed

The speaker is gradually reducing their nicotine intake while relying on it for focus and productivity.

They share their experience with weed, using it for a brief period to boost creativity but ultimately feeling its negative effects on energy and motivation.

The speaker emphasizes the importance of being mindful of substance use, as it can hinder personal and professional growth.

The speaker reflects on their struggle to go without alcohol, realizing it had been 14 days since their last drink.

They experienced a surge in productivity during this time, effortlessly churning out content for work.

The realization that Thursdays, their most productive day, were linked to the time since their last drink, highlighted the negative impact of alcohol on their overall performance.

The Impact of Alcohol and Stimulants on Productivity

Alcohol is a common factor in socializing and dating for young adults, but abstaining from it can lead to increased productivity.

Caffeine can be managed easily, while nicotine is more problematic and should be used minimally.

The speaker advocates for a maximum of one milligram of nicotine and questions the higher doses in products like Zins.