How To Break Your Daily Caffeine Habit And Use Coffee Strategically
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#2This article is not about how to break a caffeine habit. It's about the benefits of only taking caffeine occasionally.
Re: How To Break Your Daily Caffeine Habit And Use Coffee Strategically
#3This article is not about how to break a caffeine habit. It's about the benefits of only taking caffeine occasionally.
I agree. I was never even encouraged to do so. I'd still continue my avid coffee drinking habit.
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#4Sure, you could use coffee strategically. But what do you have to give up to do it? [Decaf isn't really an option, whatever the author says at the end of the post].
I think there'd have to be a serious health negative to maintaining my coffee addiction before I feel it'd be worth skipping my morning latte.
Oh, and a sugar hit can have a very similar effect in my opinion.
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#5The same benefits could probably be achieved by maintaing your current habits and then increasing sharply your caffeine intake at times when you need a boost. It's all relative, right?
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#6Sure, you could use coffee strategically. But what do you have to give up to do it? [Decaf isn't really an option, whatever the author says at the end of the post]. I think there'd have to be a serious health negative to maintaining my coffee addiction before I feel it'd be worth skipping my morning latte. Oh, and a sugar hit can have a very similar effect in my opinion.
> I think there'd have to be a serious health negative
Not a health negative but you build a tolerance to it. So then when you actually "need" a caffeine boost you'll need more of it. So...you'll have to buy a bigger mug and deal with more sever headaches if you somehow go without it.
I am actually doing what the article suggests. I normally don't drink coffee (I drink tea) except when I need a boost, then wean myself off of it. Then I do get the headaches and I manage them buy drinking more tea than usual and taking aspirin.
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#7Anti-caffeine bloggers are so annoying. There is nothing wrong with caffeine, it pretty much drives the modern world. Caffeine is a highly successful and safe nootropic and I'm convinced that people who tell you to stop it are the same people who would tell you to stop masturbating, or to take cold showers, or to sleep without a mattress.
There is no good reason to stop caffeine. If you want an extra boost, just drink more! Duh!
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#8A good practice in general is to rotate your receptors. In this case would mean alternating between coffee, tea, and maté, because each has different analogs in different proportions.
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#9The same benefits could probably be achieved by maintaing your current habits and then increasing sharply your caffeine intake at times when you need a boost. It's all relative, right?
I'm not sure. If I have too many coffees I become paranoid and shaky. I don't remember that happening early on when I was developing my addiction.
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#10I tried for years to give up an 8+ cup a day habit.
The first few times after a few days of no coffee I would be literally falling asleep at my desk at work.
Recently I went on a long vacation, and though I was drinking coffee, it was no where near as much as usual, and even that trickled off completely during the last week. At that point I thought I may as well try stopping completely - it was hard, but it's been about a month now, and I definitely feel the better for it.
The main benefit is just being able to wake up easily in the morning - previously I would wake up and feel groggy for 30 minutes or so. I'd feel normal after 30 minutes whether I had a coffee or not, but it still made waking up unpleasant. Now, as soon as my alarm goes off (and usually 10 minutes before) I'm wide awake and feeling alert. It's seriously life changing - no more hitting snooze 17 times in a row...
The downside is, I miss the taste of coffee. There's some cereal drinks that make a passable drink, but they're like a watered down, bad tasting substitute for the real thing =/