Quitting coffee and the ensuing effects

quitting

for a week at least

Medical reasons, or? I can't imagine quitting coffee and I only started drinking it maybe six months ago. If I don't have coffee within an hour of waking up I get a horrid headache, lucidity is some weird distant memory...I sympathize.

Can you taper off with decaf/caf mixed or do you have to just stop? If you have to go cold off caffiene, it can be rough, but if it's coffee you're avoiding, sub in some cola or caffienated aspirin to help with the headaches, etc. There's also caffienated soap (Shower Shock - caffiene will absorb through your skin).

If you've been drinking a lot and just want to reduce the intake, a week of cold turkey sounds like a bad idea. Splitting headache misery now and a day of screaming coffee nerves on your first day back after break. I'd just drop back one cup per day, repeat weekly until you're down to the level you want to be at.

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I did this last summer, it sucks for about a week, then you get over it

Huh, Jaq was not kidding about caffeinated soap!
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/01/03/shower-shock.jpg

i only drink one or two a day. been having some stomach/digestive problems lately tho, and i feel like coffee is probably NAGL for me as i tend to feel pretty crappy after a cup.

Yeh coffee is pretty acidic. Do you drink it black or with milk?

black (so it ain't the milk)

Milk and cream, being basic, actually helps cut down the acidity of coffee - so you might try that

but then you might feel like a wuss

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.

try some coffee from Indonesia - they tend to be low in acidity. also, Trader Joe's sells this:

http://breweddaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/frenchroastla.jpg

drink something mildly caffeinated like green tea

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.

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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".