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[–] CowboyXero ago 

Yeah. Dropped Sodas and really now only have the occasional soda. Tea which I drink a lot of has caffeine but it's a lot less.

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[–] durchfall ago 

Yes, it's nothing worse than a few days of headaches. In my experience any grumpiness ends pretty fast.

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[–] In_Cog_Nito ago 

I did it for a while in my early 20's. It is very difficult to avoid caffeine, headaches are a bitch a couple of days after even one cup of coffee, but it was probably the best I'd ever felt. sigh

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[–] throwaway33 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I actually quit about a week ago.

I've used caffeine for a lot of my life, and the spring semester put me into caffeine overdrive. When I finally got the chance to let myself detox, I did it.

Day 1: Eh not bad.

Day 2: Holy fucking balls my head hurts

Day 3: Holy fucking balls it can't get worse than this. It better get start getting better tomorrow.

Day 4: Gets a little better

Day 5: Not as bad

Day 6 and so on aren't as bad either.

I'm still tired a lot because, well, I'm not sure why. A lot of things like depression and sleep apnea and who knows what. But not as much as I was when I needed coffee.

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[–] leavethebag 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yeah. I noticed that once I started to drink coffee I would have a harder time waking up without it. I decided to stop afterwards took about a week to get past it.

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[–] deuxabuse 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I tried, managed to go nearly 2 months. The headaches were annoying but they eased off. It was the lack of an alternative quick pick me up that made me start on caffeine again. I tried B complex drops but they only worked part of the time. Might work better for you. I still avoid caffeine outside of tea and coffee when I need to maintain a certain level of energy for a period of time.

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[–] deuxabuse 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

It's a sublingual liquid, it goes under your tongue, you hold it there 30 seconds, then you can swallow it. It was highly recommended by the nurses at my doctors office because it is faster acting that way. It did work, but it was kind of hit or miss at times I needed to finish a 16 hour shift so I went back to coffee and tea.

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[–] LOLATU 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Yeah I quit for two years. Cured chronic neck pain and tinnitus I had. Starting drinking coffee again. It never came back.

First week is the hardest. After that it's not too awful. At first you will never feel awake. Then, after you kick the addiction, you'll feel like you wake up bright and alert without the caffeine.

The only tip I can think of is don't drink decaffeinated coffee or tea (herbal tea without caffeine is fine). The reason is because decaffeinated coffee can actually have quite a bit of caffeine and you won't kick the addiction.

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[–] rwbj 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I went from 1-2 pots of coffee per day to a couple of cups. There was a pretty simple 'trick' I used. I started diluting it with hot water and it scratched the same itch, and eventually hot water did as well. Soft drinks are easy to drop if you look at the healthfulness of them. Keep drinking those and you'll end up a land whale. As for completely dropping the coffee itself, you're obviously to boss of you but there are a surprisingly large number of positive health benefits to drinking a moderate amount of it.

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[–] middle_path ago 

there are a surprisingly large number of positive health benefits to drinking a moderate amount of it.

I find most of these studies are founded on bad or unreliable science. It's like the same people who drink a glass of red wine for their heart health. The same benefits are gained from eating grapes, but that's not as fun.

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[–] rwbj ago 

All health and human physiology is still just correlational on the micro scale. The scale of the benefits for coffee are so large (approaching 20% for things like reduced mortality rate) that it's pretty hard to imagine it's just a correlation. The inverse correlation also holds strongly true in that people who don't regularly consume coffee have a significantly higher rate of all-cause mortality. I think another thing is that people have actively searched for evidence of negative health consequences of coffee because intuitively it seems there 'ought' be. That study I linked to is a meta-analysis looking at a wide array of other studies and still seeing those strong correlations.

As for wine, you'd have to eat an obscene amount of grapes - likely in the hundreds - to get comparable benefits and some studies have shown the ethanol itself as a positive player though obviously in moderation.

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