Quitting coffee and the ensuing effects

Had two cups of earl grey this morning and feel pretty good. I just might limit myself to a single cup of coffee at work around 2 or 3 so I'm not falling over myself at 6pm.

yerba mate cured me of a coffee addiction AND i felt great the weeks i was drinking it regularly

People that say to others "I haven't had MY coffee yet or wait until I've had MY coffee".

i've noticed ever since i've had my Keurig i drink coffee like a fucking mad man. Recently they installed a Keurig at the office too!

Man so everyone knows the common problem of getting a headache after not getting the usual caffeine fix, right? Does anyone have the weirdo other problem of: you haven't drank any caffeine in a long time, and when you do drink a cup of coffee or whatever, you get a huge headache?

This happened to me the other day! I wasn't sure if it was the coffee, though, or what.

I've consumed pretty much no caffeine in the last five years (not even caffeinated tea), but lately, I have been enjoying a cup of decaf on Saturday or Sunday morning. (My body's so unused to caffeine that even decaf gives me a palpable buzz. Can't imagine what full-strength would do to me.)

yes i used to get the same high from decaf, then i had a kid....DARK ROAST EXTRA BOLD NOW baby.

i have 2 per day at the most (or 3 small cups when i make them at home.) i usually don't even finish the second cup, actually.

Yeah I should get a moka pot again, it made just the right amount of coffee. If I make it now I use my French press and feel guilty that I made 4.0 cups of coffee and drank 0.7 of them.

u know dark roast has less caffeine than light roast

^^^ came here to post just that

sad coffee nerd lols

pro tip: moka pot coffee has a lot more caffeine than you would expect

so there was a quitting coffee thread in the sandbox & though it didn't make much of an effect on me at the time (coffee is occasional for me), i think it start something rolling & i have become super conscious of how much tea i drink (a bunch, like all day long), & am trying to reduce it, & am finding the whole thing alarming. like i just wondered if it was constant tea that was providing the weird sometimes subtly constant thing i previously thought of as 'low-level caffeine buzz' but now realise was in fact just a general squint-inducing headache, which i feel like i've had for six months.

anyway, i think some other people wanted to lean on a thread like this for their coffee-specific issues.

braaaain...dying...

i'm in phase two, after cutting back significantly, in which i'm now drinking zero caffeine (i cheated and had a mountain dew at work yesterday to keep from snapping at coworkers)

you are one of the true heroes

I dunno if I'll ever commit to quitting caffeine

You have my sympathies. Did this again recently (see also: Caffeine headache) and it was pretty rough for a few days there. I basically went down from three espresso drinks a day, to a cup and a half of my roommate's strong drip coffee, to now just a cup of tea every morning. Have had to resort to a Coke in mid-afternoon a few times. There were two or three days in the first tea week that I just got so damn tired I couldn't get a damn thing done.

i know i'm addicted because i don't want to quit. i can't imagine ever quitting, or ever wanting to quit!

^^^ I'll never voluntarily give up coffee. It is too pure a pleasure.

i was drinking over a pot a day just to keep level, it wasn't doing much of anything for me anymore. i just got tired of needing it just to function, tired of every time i tried to go camping or get away in some fashion that i'd still be tethered to it. tried cutting back a number of times before but i just can't moderate, i shoot right back up to pot-a-day levels before i know it. all or none!

there's still nothin like a great big breakfast w/ bacon and eggs, coffee and orange juice

yay arby's! i'm also on no caffeine at the moment. sometimes when i'm feeling weak, i make some decaf. (there is apparently some caffeine in decaf, but i've never had the caffeine headache problem so i think it's minimal unless you're downing it).

xp i'm also all or none. this is like my millionth go around quitting coffee, it's so easy to fall off the wagon when there's a tempting pot of freshly made coffee at work every morning

ou don't quit coffee, you give up - never give up- keep fighting! God can help

given how much sad pleasure I take from enjoying a coffee, I can't really fathom being without it. It's kinda pathetic

tired of every time i tried to go camping or get away in some fashion that i'd still be tethered to it.

yeah, the only times i'm really even cognizant of my addiction is when i'm on a camping trip, or i spend the night at someone's house and realize in the morning that they don't have coffee and there's not going to be an easy way to get coffee. then i suddenly feel like a dope fiend because it's all i can think about.

but the 99% of the time that i wake up in my own house and make a cup, or grab some on the way into work. mmmmmmm nothing like it. :)

tha reason to never camp is loss of coffee privlegdes

so many reasons not to camp

yeah - where to shit

i have had coffee every single day for about 10 years straight now. :-/

You have to both shit, and get off the (coffee) pot. Untenable.

I guess they need to invent a portable toilet/mr coffee machine that is powered by the sun

luckily Mr Veg is almost as much of a coffee fiend as me - he got us a thermal french press for camping trips, pre-grinds the coffee the day before we leave... MWAH delicious

I have one of these that I use at work to make/drink coffee and it came from a camping store so no excuse, campers! http://www.rei.com/product/792857/rei-double-shot-press-mug
I thought about buying a second Aeropress for work but that just seemed silly.

I genuinely have no idea why anyone would quit coffee except I guess stomach problems. OTOH I went years and years never drinking it and didn't feel I was in a horrible cognitive fog.

Ehhh, just didn't like:

a) feeling of dependency on something, having to do this thing before i can really do anything with my day
b) sense that it's probably not REALLY good for you
c) $
d) definitely does get to my stomach sometimes

Thing is, I really do like going out to breakfast and having coffee with it just seems natural, and they keep refilling the cup while you work on the crossword, which also seems natural, and then, blammo. I guess I could just ask for decaf, duh.

You need to improve your crossword skills.

Dude, the Times one is tough! Last week they had this pretty reasonable crib where all the long play-on-words things were like advertisements for things that debuted at certain world's fairs, and I still couldn't resolve one of the corners areas. Ugh.

I remember that one. That was kind of a weird gimmick.

No stomach problems but really affected my sleep when I have enough trouble sleeping anyway...

^^

i also worry a lot about what drinking an entire pot+ a day does to my metabolism and stuff. there are a bajillion articles out there on the health detriments of coffee, but then there are also tons out there saying exactly the opposite (one specific battle that seems to pop up is coffee's link to diabetes), so man idk.

that camping mug is cool but a lotta times it's just not in the cards to build up another fire in the morning, boil more water. and when you're on a pot a day a little mug ain't doing it.

hmmm. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/quit-coffee_b_1598108.html

In the 1980s and 1990s several prospective cohort studies were done to investigate the correlation between coffee and diabetes. Many of those studies reported that there is an inverse dose-dependent association with the risk of Type 2 diabetes. This means that for reasons still unclear, all those research studies found that the more coffee people with normal blood sugar drank, the less risk appeared for developing Type 2 diabetes. Several constituents in coffee might be responsible for these consistent findings.

Chlorogenic acid in coffee might inhibit glucose-6-phosphatase, an enzyme that regulates blood sugar metabolism in the liver. It could also be due to the indisputably-high levels of antioxidants, which have a benign effect on insulin sensitivity.

Not surprisingly, the news channels then sounded the bell that coffee was protective, and we all enjoyed our cup of joe without any remorse.

Until the next report.

Some curious minds wanted to know exactly who was protected. And why? How? These studies showed that in people with Type 2 diabetes coffee intake was correlated with insulin spikes and increased blood sugar after a meal. Further research has shown that the caffeine in coffee might be the culprit responsible for the secretion of higher levels of insulin from the pancreas.

Clearly higher insulin and glucose levels are not the work we want to bestow on a body healing from insulin resistance. Considering that diabesity affects nearly 1.7 billion people worldwide and growing, the nightly news now sounded the alarm of caution that perhaps our coffee habit is a detrimental addiction needing to be kicked to the curb.

i mean i'm not a diabetic, but interesting

i am back on a quasi-quit jag, reasons =

1) will sleep better
2) less waking tired and sluggish every morning
3) fewer headaches
4) also reduces non-caffeine-based self-medication for headaches

(all effects attested to from previous breaks)

i love love love coffee but i think it cuts into my working/writing routine when not on deadline -- next hard deadline is two months away, here's to a headache-free late summer

i have considered switching up to green tea but maybe that is a frying pan / fire situation

luckily i dislike tea in all its forms

even chai? I like coffee fine but I don't know what I'd do without chai

I drink nuts amount of coffee.

Last holiday, the opportunity for coffee drinking was negligible. Didn't particularly miss it, until one day I felt like I'd like one. Even then, if they hadn't had it, it would not have been a biggie.

More surprised there wasn't any crayvinnnggsssss

even rooibos and pu-erh and russian brick tea

I have found since I started taking arctic root (proper name Rhodiola Rosea) every day I barely crave any caffeine on a morning any more. It actually gives me an energy jolt that lasts all day. Although I take it in tablet form and couldn't vouch for brewed method of ingestion practiced in the Russian arctic regions for centuries. It probably tastes like bear piss but it's effects and benefits as a natural stimulant are exceptional.

verveine/verbena is pretty amazing as a late-nite rinse-out

no caffeine tho