anyone quit caffeine?

Sometimes even the little caffeine I have pushes me over the edge being that I am already pretty high strung, but I still have pretty low energy w/o it. The stress just burns me out. Last night I put my coffee pot away but this morning it was back out. I think it's compromising my quality of life. I have like one cup in the morning and another later in the day and might have some soda as well towards evening.

 

i used to be very addicted to caffine. id drink a COUPLE LITERS of diet coke evey day. ive 'quit' diet coke for about 2 months now, but have since taken to coffee because i need that kick still. it isnt fun to quit caffine but it is definitly worth attempting. good luck to you

 

It's funny , I never used to use caffeine but they put me on xanax and it made me tired so I'd have to have a cup or two just to stay awake; and then I moved in with this woman who always drank it and would offer it to me all this time and now I like it.

 

I don't particularly like coffee, or caffeine. I've gone through short phases where I need it for a week or two and then I just quit.

I hate the way it effects me, but if I start drinking it regularly there's just something about it that keeps me going for it. Typically though, when I'm offered coffee I don't drink it or don't drink much. And I hate soda's anyway because sugar plus caffeine is just not a good combination for me.

But as for energy citrus fruit helps, making pure chocolate drinks out of actual cocoa powder is good... and chocolate has the tiniest amount of caffeine, it's not the caffeine in it that's energizing... I do different things for energy sometimes... I can't think of them all, right now. Vitamin D, C, and B are good ones.

 

I've heard that drugs bypass the thinking part of the brain and go right for the back brain so even if we don't want it our backbrain does so we do it. Like you said "I hate the way it effects me, but if I start drinking it regularly there's just something about it that keeps me going for it".
I generally make a 2 cup pot right when I wake up, walk my dog and drink one cup, then later on I have the other one.

 

Hell thats not that bad. I drink usu. 2 energy drinks in the am and a 12 cup pot of coffee to myself when I get home...mostly to keep myself busy and shit when I don't have pills or pot or can't smoke a cigarette. I'm one of those people who has to keep busy and since I tell myself If i eat to occupy my time I'll gain weight I end up eating hardly ever. But its a great way to lose weight, I'll tell you that. Coffee diet.

 

I think I eat more on coffee as it makes me more wired so I eat more to calm down.

 

Caffeine generally blocks the effect of a neurotransmitter in our brains that normally works to relax us. Also, it causes the body to secrete more of the hormone adrenaline, the substance that "revs up" our nervous systems in a similar way to stress. Stay away from it -- it will just make your anxiety worse.

 

I recently quite coffee... just a bit over a month ago. It was for sure the hardest thing I have done... I quit cigarettes about 4 years ago.. that sucked, but nothing was as bad as the caffeine withdrawal.. The migraines were unbearable... and one day I was physically sick (vomiting, etc).

Anyhow, yea, it was very hard, but the physical symptoms only lasted about 2 weeks... today I still fight the urge to have one when I walk by a Second cup, or a Starbucks... esp when you get a whiff of that smell... I truly don't feel any better since quitting, but, the way I see it.. if any drug causes that kind of withdrawal,,, I should probably stay away from it...

Ya know guys, there are so many illegal drugs that don't cause nearly the amount of problems and dependencies as caffeine... yet it is still out on the market, and folks line up to get their fix... weird place this world isn't it...

 

Lol, well I'm a Pepsiholic. When I know I'm drinking too much soda I try lay off by drinking juice instead. For me it works most of the time and it's a lot harder to just drink water...o_o;

 

me, i am a soda(coca-cola) addict. . I think it just runs in our family recently, I tried hard to minimize my coke intake because I want to leave a healthy life. What I did was motivate myself. Whenever I thought of drinking one, I always control myself not to drink. But of course I didn't said that I would never drink coke, I will just minimize it. So now, I don't have this strong urge for it. We just actually need to control ourselves. To stay motivated is one effective way to do it.



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i have no desire to stop drinking coffee. i find myself not drinking it on the weekends with little or no adverse effects. sometimes i drink 1 cup on saturday or something but i dont really feel great effects or withdrawls when i dont have it.

 

When I quit using blow I move right to coffee with a shitload of sugar.

 

I don't understand people who do coke and other drugs to hype you up, there are safer alternatives you know. Coffee is one that you already mentioned, energy drinks, caffeine pills, etc. But you guys insist on wasting tons of money on a tiny rock.

 

Fuck off.

If you knew anything about coke, you'd understand the difference. When you hit a line of blow or meth, it isn't anything like caffeine.

And you'd know the difference between rock and blow.

It isn't good, but it isn't anything like caffeine.

 

Well, I'm not going to do it while I've got this bag left because pot wipes me out, but when it's gone I'm stopping, Or I'll end up getting wired and want more pot. and you want to take about cokeheads, my pot source is one and I don't want to deal w' that crowd.
Coffee is messing my stomach up and makes me heart beat weird; eventually I'll have to quit regardless.

 

I know that its a waste of money, isn't that enough. You are snorting white powder and you feel enlightened by that, thats sad.

 

Fuck you. You only live once. Does it really matter what we're "enlightened" by?when it makes me happy?

 

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It doesn't make one enlightened. But it makes one ridiculously social, rididculously confident, and you're able to identify with everyone. It also makes one a lot tougher than they actually are.

And I've quit. I had real addiction issues, and I gave it up.

But what is really sad is some pretentious jackass juding people for what he's obviously never tried (and if you claim to have tried it now, there isn't a chance in hell I'll believe you).

 

I sure wouldn't touch coke though, what a life destroyer.