No Coffee.

[Ming]

After a visit to a doctor, I was told I should try to quit drinking coffee. Yep. I don't know if this has happened to anyone else, but I have now cut down to 2 cups. This is about a 1/5th to 1/10th of the coffee I normally drink. It is so terribly difficult, and I have just now realized how boring my job is. I can't imagine how I can even drive my car in the morning without one or two cups. How do I make it?

The craving subsides after a while. But coffee in those quantities is very harmful.

i was the same way with coke. i would drink it to wake me up and then have several more that day. now i haven't had a coke or a soda for 2 months now. it was hard at first. i was very tired and very cranky. it wasn't pretty, but i heard for energy you should drink water through out the the day which i have been doing. and it works great. you just have to hold in there! you can do it!

JaYsin

[J-Excel]

I quit caffein cold turkey (from 10 cups a day) when I started this lifestyle change. I had headaches for a week and was dog tired. After I get over the withdrawal I had more energy and felt better than ever before.

[osprey4]

My wife is a serious diet coke addict but was told to avoid all caffeine (due to its tendency to aggravate cysts in the breast). She's done very well switching to caffeine free. We have a good friend who's a big coffee drinker but went to decaf for the same reason (even though decaf coffee still has about 10% left). You could try decaf.

Of course, I wouldn't survive on decaf.

[Ming]

I can't survive decaf. Oddly enough, it isn't so much no caffeine, as a problem of too much caffeine, and was recommended to quit drinking coffee altogether. I have a few cups of tea here and there, but it doesn't really do the trick. Also, I have drank coffee since I was a kid, so now it has become more a problem of not being able to think coherently than lack of energy.

[Theophylact]

Caffeine, in moderation, is one of the most useful and harmless drugs around. Thousands of studies have come up with no serious side effects: no cancer, no heart disease, no stroke, no kidney damage, no chromosomal aberration, no nuthin', despite the fulminations of killjoys and religious puritans. (I stress moderation: 20 cups of coffee a day is not moderate.) On the plus side, it increases concentration, seems to have a mildly beneficial effect in postponing Alzheimer's disease, and a significant effect in staving off loss of libido.

Going cold turkey from high levels of use will cause splitting and persistent headaches that are (in my experience) unresponsive to phenacetin (Tylenol). On the other hand, going cold turkey from high levels of barbituates or Valium can kill you.

When I was a young teacher, I drank eight to ten cups a day; the main side effect was diuretic. These days, I drink one to two; a cup before bed won't keep me up, but I wouldn't want more.

My advice: cut back, slowly, to no more than four cups a day. You'll still have a headache if you miss your fix for a day, but unless you have some specific medical condition that contraindicates it, you really needn't feel bad about continuing to drink caffeine-containing beverages.

For a boring job, on the other hand, I have no legally acceptable pharmacological advice to offer.

[caddmannq]

Originally posted by Theophylact
...On the plus side...a significant effect in staving off loss of libido.

HeeHee...I've been telling my wife this for years: "There is no sex before coffee!"

[George VII]

Ahhh!! Don't say that you might have to q . . . q . . . qui . . . *can't bring himself to say the word* drinking coffee! I'm getting thirsty just listening to all this slander. I think I'll go make a nice big pot of coffee . . .

[TheBurningCat]

I'm a heavy coke drinker! It is 10 am and i have had 2 600 ml bottles already. i love my coke and it will most likly kill this cat but i doubt i would be happy without it......


ahhhhhh drugs, the cause and solution to all of lifes problems!