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[–] dirkgently 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

I have on multiple occasions. I did get some headaches for about a week and also found myself crazy tired during that time but it leveled out and I felt a lot better without it. I'm back now drinking more coffee than ever but that's just because I don't have any other vices. I figure this one is the least harmful. Give it a go, it's good practice to quit things every so often to prove you are the boss of you, and not to substances.

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[–] middle_path 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

You sounds just like me. Quitting coffee sucks, but i feel so much better without it. Problem is, I love the taste of black coffee, it's what always brings me back. And decaf is a joke.

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[–] pacman2000 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Mostly just headaches. Usually just good 'ol ibuprofin and laying down helps. Oddly enough it doesn't happen every time I abstain from caffeine, but most times it does.

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[–] pacman2000 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

The only issue I have is the headaches. I don't really notice much of a difference so it must be subtle. However, when I go back after abstaining for a week or so I do notice I actually feel speeded and energetic when I take caffeine.

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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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[–] armday2day 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I replaced my morning coffee with a real breakfast, leaving only my lunchtime coffee. So maybe just cutting out one instance per day is a good start.

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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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[–] 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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[–] 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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[–] PM_me_your_mitts 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Done and done

Edit: Oh. Story. Drank coffee at work. Drank 6 cups one day and thought I was having a heart attack.

Quit cold turkey. I am back on it now. I have about half a cup a day if I have any.

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

Drank coffee at work. Drank 6 cups one day and thought I was having a heart attack.

I used to work at a coffee shop. I did this one day, then had the genius idea of going for a run. I honestly thought i was dying.

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