Rant: No Caffeine

[Freed Roger]

Are you going cold turkey?

So far, but I don't think I can last.

I don't drink coffee at all, just soda and tea. I'm thinking about getting some tea right now.

Wean bro. Wean.

[jim]

If I were forced to give up one or the other - coffee or beer, I think I would give up coffee but it's not a slam dunk. I really really like/need my coffee. Giving it up would be a serious quality of life issue that I am not willing to make.

[Freed Roger]

Dependency on caffeine has really sucked on the rare occasions when I was sick and/or hungover - and needed sleep, instead of waking up for a caffeine fix so the headache wasn't compounded.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

If I were forced to give up one or the other - coffee or beer, I think I would give up coffee but it's not a slam dunk. I really really like/need my coffee. Giving it up would be a serious quality of life issue that I am not willing to make.

This is where I'm at. I enjoy a nice cup of coffee while reading the paper (well, my phone) Saturday morning almost as much as I enjoy a beer while grilling that night.

[jim]

I don't get the caffeine withdrawal symptoms like I do with the hooch.

[heyzeus]

You know, Elliott Smith went off his narcotics of choice cold turkey. Then he stabbed himself in the heart. Twice.

[ghostrunner]

I'm pretty sure coffee has zero effect on my wakefulness. I drink it late and have no trouble sleeping. I drink it in the morning and don't feel any peppier.

[sighyoung]

I'm pretty sure coffee has zero effect on my wakefulness. I drink it late and have no trouble sleeping. I drink it in the morning and don't feel any peppier.

Your body adjusts to caffeine, so after a while, the effect isn't nearly as a great as when you first began drinking it. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/02/22/coffee/

[jim]

You know, Elliott Smith went off his narcotics of choice cold turkey. Then he stabbed himself in the heart. Twice.

I was a tin of Copenhagen a day chewer, quit in 2007. I wanted to stab myself in the heart, and in fact thought several times I was having a heart attack. Sweats, palpitations, and the worst were cramping in my feet and calves. Horrible.

[ghostrunner]

I'm pretty sure coffee has zero effect on my wakefulness. I drink it late and have no trouble sleeping. I drink it in the morning and don't feel any peppier.

Your body adjusts to caffeine, so after a while, the effect isn't nearly as a great as when you first began drinking it. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/02/22/coffee/

I figured that might be the case, but then I hear people say all the time how they "need" the morning coffee and then I wonder why it doesn't do anything for me.

I do remember it giving me the shakes in college when I first started drinking it.