I've quite cold turkey from drinking around 50 oz per day, which was enough to make me feel side effects.
If you you plan to quit cold turkey, plan ahead a bit.
Stop drinking it on Thursday. You'll probably feel fine, though a bit tired and sluggish Thursday, and Friday you might feel the onset of a headache, but it should be manageable with pain med. Saturday and Sunday you will want to sleep all day and will likely have a bad headache.
This, however, in my experience is not the worst part, so long as you time it right so you can sleep all weekend.
After the headache subsides (usually after 4 days), you get the body aches. You'll feel like you have bad Delayed Onset Muscle soreness (the soreness you feel a couple days after you work out hard in the gym) for about 5 days. For me, this was the worst part.
After 9 days, you'll be over the addiction, and the pain, etc should be gone.
You'll probably have to fight the habitual part of grabbing a coffee for a few more weeks before it starts to feel natural.
If your like me you will notice the following once you quit.
1. You wake up ready to go
2. You have less peak energy, but no longer have that mid afternoon downtime
3. You are more creative and better at creative thinking, but find it more difficult to stay focused on repetitious, boring tasks.
I now drink 1 - 2 cups a morning ,and none in the afternoon, which seems to provide a pretty good balance for me.
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IMO, coffee and tea are perfectly fine when drank in moderation and without sugar. Also you must drink water to rehydrate. Pop is the devil. Coke can remove rust and you want that in your body? Just my opinion.
Yeah, I've stopped coffee and reverted back to what was my old drinking habit which was tea. Have a couple of cups of that a day now. Touch of milk, no sugar. Love it, refreshing as hell, and don't even know why I deviated from it.
When I think of it I'm not even sure if I like the taste of coffee? I think if I have to ply it with cream and sugar to kill the taste then maybe I'm just drinking for effect/habit.
e.g. Tim Hortons make a good steeped tea. Yet! I would be fully aware of that and order a double double when truth be told I preferred the taste of the their tea. I think coffee for me just became a habit, like smoking. You don't enjoy it but you do it.
Pop? That crap is gone from the house and I'm going to put it down to a phase.
Was up to 10 cups a day in my darkest times a few months back when I was working 4 jobs. Work with a guy that never drinks coffee and eats a lot of salad. He works at 6am and goes to sleep at 12:30 everyday. The guy is smart, witty and never ever sleepy. Pretty much convinced me to quit, I've got 4 days off in a row now so really trying to quit. I'll sleep 9 hours and he'll sleep 5.5 and he'll have twice the energy and quick wittedness.
Hate being droopy and malaise 30 minutes after the first cup. Worst part is my job has non-stop free organic coffee that is amazing. I could drink 100 cups in a day and they wouldn't say a thing.
I never drank very much caffeine because it has never had real positive effects on me -- I never experienced the same 'pick me up' everyone talks about. Eventually it started having negative effects -- a very strong, hard heart rate that freaked me out. That's when I cut it out, coffee and pop. I'll have a decaf coffee because I like the taste but that's it.
IMO, coffee and tea are perfectly fine when drank in moderation and without sugar. Also you must drink water to rehydrate. Pop is the devil. Coke can remove rust and you want that in your body? Just my opinion.
IMO, coffee and tea are perfectly fine when drank in moderation and without sugar. Also you must drink water to rehydrate. Pop is the devil. Coke can remove rust and you want that in your body? Just my opinion.
Not only does coke remove rust , when left on to long it actually damages the metals. Coke base 4 times the amount of acid then actual commercial rust Remover's .
I was a huge pop drinker, like 5-6 a day habit. Unfortunately, I have a problem of having a sweet tooth, so my problem was less the caffeine than the sugar.
I just one day stopped buying it and only have one once in a while when I'm at a restaurant. The only symptom that I had was a nasty headache that lasted about 4 days.
Removing caffiene though is a non starter. I like my coffee way too much for that.
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I have a few family members who talk about quitting coffee, but I keep telling them its not the coffee that's the problem, its all the sugar you put into it!
More and more studies showing that black coffee is good for you.
I used to be a big pop drinker. About 10 years ago I switched from Coke to Coffee.
I drink my coffee black (no milk, no cream, no sugar, black like God intended). But now when I do have the occasional Coca-Cola Classic I find it really sugary, I have difficulty finishing an entire can (which isn't a bad thing).
Now back to my coffee... mmmmm coffee
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Have you tried decaf? I decided to quit caffeine in the afternoons at work because the jittesr were annoying and unnecessary. So I started drinking decaf instead.
I haven't noticed a single side effect other than no jitters. I love it. I've since realized that I just like the taste of coffee and the act of going to get it more than the caffeine itself, at least in the afternoons.
8:00 AM: black coffee
9:00 AM: latte/cappuccino (no sugar)
10:00 AM: green tea
11:00 AM: black cofee
12:00 PM: green tea or ice water or diet cola - whatever goes with food
1:00 PM: latte/cappuccino (no sugar)
2:00 PM: green tea
3:00 PM: black tea (earl grey or breakfast blend with milk and sugar)
4:00 PM: ice water for workout
5:00 PM: green tea to warm up before going home in the cold
I pretty much need a drink in my hand every hour to be productive at anything but I only ever drink caffeine at work. I started working on the weekends on a new enterprise and started noticing headaches. A quick medium regular solved that right away.
I'm also part-owner in a coffee shop but ironically I don't drink coffee casually or when I'm out so I'm rarely there. it's only when I'm at my desk working at my O&G job.
I think if I have to ply it with cream and sugar to kill the taste then maybe I'm just drinking for effect/habit.
