Quitting coffee and the ensuing effects

I switched from coffee to tea this year and have been happy.

Yeah, I was gonna say, drop back to one cup and have it au lait, on ice maybe. Cold turkey = BAD. Hard to get anything done when blinking hurts.

― Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Monday, August 3, 2009 11:52 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i did it with ciggies after a decade of pack/day, i can do it with coffee!

im rockin green tea but at this point it kind of feels like bringing a knife to a gunfight

Tea, hot or cold, gives me four-alarm heartburn more often than coffee does (which is never).

tea w/o milk gives me heartburn, so i pour in a few drops (not in green tea obv)

When I quit coffee, I found Excedrin really helped...which is when I learned two Excedrin has as much caffeine as a cup of coffee.

coffee i miss u boo :(

aghgahgahgshag

guys help

By the spirit of Quetzocatl may this demon bean beGONE

Caffeine soap. Or, make a poultice of grounds, strap it around your torso like a bandito.

I recently came back to the welcoming arms of coffee after 6 years away, and it is heaven.

You enabler!

slock: not as bad as a migraine...eh? eh? that helping?

You enabler!

It's true, too true. Ignore me slocki - think pure thoughts, drink delicious icy water, bandage your aching head in vinegar and brown paper.

might try putting this poultice thing together in the break room

I'm trying to cut down. And I usually drink a lot of coffee, like 12 cups a day. I'm pretty fucking miserable.

that is a lot of coffee

I drink anywhere from 6 to 20+ cups most days... is there a downside I'm missing?

holy shit. does your heart explode?

I had a small cup earlier and it was like ambrosia.

I haven't had any in a couple weeks until now btw. If I feel this bad without it I wonder if it's worth the effort tbh

have some tea.

i can get a little jittery sometimes if i drink an evening pot... sometimes i'll cut it out for a day or two to get the pronounced euphoric buzz back. heart hasn't exploded yet.

i have about 4 a day and im on fire after my last cup. i've also noticed lately that i feel like im getting a damn ulcer.

that happened to me, bingo. i have maybe one cup every month, now.

I am laughing at my comment upthread about quitting coffee, I think I fell off the wagon shortly afterward.

Love love love coffee so much. The first sip of the first cup each morning is like xmas. I know I've posted exactly that at least a couple of times on ilx before.

When my aeropress filters run out, I'm switching to a larger french press.

yeah i love coffee but rarely have more than two cups a day

have been going thru the places in london that are sposed to do the best coffee, usually lots of serious looking australasians, £2.50 flat whites that take aaaages and a general hieratic sense abt the enterprise

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?

the withdrawal effects should be gone within 3-4 days (for me it's this dull throbbing headache, fun).

yeah i get a headache, not from not drinking it and then drinking it (because i don't usually go more than 24h without coffee now so i dunno) but from having more than usual. i never get one from not drinking coffee.

too legit to quit but I do blame coffee for systematically starving around noon (because of the acidity) and forcing me to rush out to buy the most filling food I can get (thereby ruining my diet)

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!