Quitting caffeine?

Jeeta said:
Blood sugars are also something you need to watch. If you consume large amounts of sugar in the morning and then start to ease off in the afternoon, this can happen...

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Definitely reduce intake over a period of time. The last thing you want to do is turn into a middle age, overweight, black woman.

Pace yourself bro.
 


dchuk said:
I used to drink about a pot of coffee a day. I'm down to about a cup, mainly because I like the flavor of coffee and the cute girls at coffee shops. Just dedicate a week to it.

Drink a shit ton of water.
Purposefully ween yourself off of it until you're down to a cup per day or less (reduces likelihood of withdrawal headaches)
If you get a headache, just drink half a cup of coffee and it will go away and you won't lose progress

Your energy levels will stabilize after about a week or so
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Thanks - not sure if I'll ever quite completely because it's so damn tasty, and relatively harmless.

As to why quit? It's mainly a curiosity thing. I enjoy experimenting with changing different things about my life to see what effect it has on my state of mind/body. Also being dependent on anything even in a small way bugs me.

(I notice than whenever says that they're quitting something, a number of people take it as an inferred suggestion that everyone else should quit it too. You shouldn't. There's nothing wrong with coffee. Or masturbation, or smoking, or drinking, or snorting lines of blow off a shaven patch on the rump of your favourite Labrador, as long as you're not harming anyone, and it's what you choose to do. And you give the dog a steak afterwards.)
 
I get headaches when I quit cold turkey, but I haven't quit in so long that I wonder if I still will... I guess I just can't go without my cappo every morning, it gets me going.

Also, I've become pretty heavily addicted to drinking Crystal Light "Energy" throughout the day, a powdered shot of fruit-juice-flavor with about 60 MG of caffeine in it... I probably down about 4 of those a day nowadays, so if the double cappo is about 400 MG in the morning then I'm doing about 2/3rds of a gram of caffeine a day now... With the occasional second cup of cappo later, too. (Over a gram in one day!)

-Hopefully there will be no side effects, hopefully. What were we talking about again?
 
I used to drink a Rockstar energy drink everyday for years, then I stopped doing that, I also used to drink coffee first and then Rockstar everyday, I stopped drinking rockstar 6 months ago, and have 2 cups of coffee a day, big change, I used to have headaches but that went away, some days I do crave Energy drinks, but I get an extra cup of coffee, kills it right away.
 
I was drinking 2 pots of Starbucks (high caffeine) home brewed coffee for many years. If you try to quit cold turkey it will get bad.. but it's surprisingly easy to quit if you just reduce your amt by a cup a day. I was surprised how quickly I could get off of it after so many years of being on it.

Now i do a mix of decaf and caffeinated home-brewed Starbucks coffee (3:1 ratio or so). I'll prob stay with it cause of all the health benefits of coffee even w/out caffeine in it.

I mainly reduced caffeine because at 2 pots a day for so long I actually noticed I was getting caffeine rage and itchiness. I felt like Tyrone Biggums (Dave Chappelle) with the itching.
 
amateursurgeon said:
Thanks - not sure if I'll ever quite completely because it's so damn tasty, and relatively harmless.

As to why quit? It's mainly a curiosity thing. I enjoy experimenting with changing different things about my life to see what effect it has on my state of mind/body. Also being dependent on anything even in a small way bugs me.

(I notice than whenever says that they're quitting something, a number of people take it as an inferred suggestion that everyone else should quit it too. You shouldn't. There's nothing wrong with coffee. Or masturbation, or smoking, or drinking, or snorting lines of blow off a shaven patch on the rump of your favourite Labrador, as long as you're not harming anyone, and it's what you choose to do. And you give the dog a steak afterwards.)
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I cutback on coffee because it was getting to the point where caffeine wasn't having an impact on me anymore.
 
Russ86 said:
Here is my whole take on 'let's quit everything that stimulates us' thing.

If the ultimate goals in life are happiness, freedom, and fulfillment, will quitting coffee ultimately bring you closer or farther away from that goal, assuming you drink in moderation? Ask yourself that question objectively, then make your decision.

Personally, I think the only thing it will accomplish is making your days a little less enjoyable.
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So this. My husband has been wanting to quit coffee and I just love the feel of it and the holding of the cup and the warmth and the taste. So he suggested switching to decaf but for some reason that doesn't hold the same appeal.

(I say this as we're both juicing and not drinking coffee at the moment. But I fully intend to go back to at least one cup a day. ) It's just one of life's little pleasures. Why deny yourself that when, in moderation, it's actually good for you?
 
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turbolapp said:
So this. My husband has been wanting to quit coffee and I just love the feel of it and the holding of the cup and the warmth and the taste. So he suggested switching to decaf but for some reason that doesn't hold the same appeal.

(I say this as we're both juicing and not drinking coffee at the moment. But I fully intend to go back to at least one cup a day. ) It's just one of life's little pleasures. Why deny yourself that when, in moderation, it's actually good for you?
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Meh, I'll never drink de-caf, for the same reason I won't each low fat or sugar free anything. Once you fuck about with, it's not food any more in my book.
 
I've tried de-caf coffees (I am a heavy coffee drinker, 8+ big cups a day), and sadly, all of them taste like shit.

::emp::
 
dchuk said:
I used to drink about a pot of coffee a day. I'm down to about a cup, mainly because I like the flavor of coffee and the cute girls at coffee shops. Just dedicate a week to it.

Drink a shit ton of water.
Purposefully ween yourself off of it until you're down to a cup per day or less (reduces likelihood of withdrawal headaches)
If you get a headache, just drink half a cup of coffee and it will go away and you won't lose progress

Your energy levels will stabilize after about a week or so
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Birthday coffee is still coffee young man.
 
You people and your addictions...

I honestly can't tell the difference between having a coffee and not having a coffee. I just like the taste, especially soy lattes.
 
tangy said:
I don't even want to know how constipated you were taking this much codeine. Some patients get blocked up on 15 / 30mg a day...
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Never had a problem with that, guess I was just lucky. I did slowly ramp up to those sorts of numbers too, started off with 1-2 30mg's a day for the pain I had, and just escalated from there as I developed a tolerance, to the extent I had pain whenever I hadn't had 60-80mg in the last few hours.

Turned out the pain I had was just withdrawal from the codeine, and no longer the original pain I started having. After tapering down on the dose down to 0 it all just went away.

No idea why the doctor kept re-prescribing it to be honest, when it was obvious I was taking a ton of the stuff. Not sure why he didn't suggest that it could be the withdrawal symptoms actually causing the pain, either.
 
amateursurgeon said:
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(I notice than whenever says that they're quitting something, a number of people take it as an inferred suggestion that everyone else should quit it too. You shouldn't. There's nothing wrong with coffee. Or masturbation, or smoking, or drinking, or snorting lines of blow off a shaven patch on the rump of your favourite Labrador, as long as you're not harming anyone, and it's what you choose to do. And you give the dog a steak afterwards.)
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Don't think anyone is saying morally its wrong to do those things its just healthier not to. Depends on the person and their prior habit though.
 
i've never seen any reason to quit drinking coffee.... except for the teeth staining... but only my dentists can notice it, then she cleans it off anyway
 
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