I never started drinking coffee regularly. When I drink some, it makes me talk and laugh.
Why I Quit Coffee and How That's Been Working Out
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#22Similar experiences and I quit coffee ~ 6 months ago. I switched to cacao; initially ground cacao beans and settled on cacao powder. For ground beans, I tried Choffy and Crio Bru through a coffee maker and then a french press. I liked it but wanted a deeper cacao flavor, moving to powder. To drink cacao with powder, I fill my travel mug with water, pour the water into a single cup coffee maker (no grounds in the filter) and place 1 1/2 - 2 T of cacao powder (usually Viva Labs or TruVibe for criollo cacao) into the mug, which mixes with the dispensed hot water. The cacao provides a boost, in a different way than coffee, and health benefits.
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#23I love coffee. I love drinking it and I love the effects it has. I love the feeling of a waking up with a nice hot cuppa every morning as I read the news. I love getting a cup in the afternoon after lunch. I love making coffee for my wife, and I love when she offers to make me a cup when she makes herself a cup. I love coffee even though since I started lifting weights and eating well, I don't really need it. Every c…
Same here. I drink it for just the taste and smell. I can go off it for days and I don't get any adverse effects, nor do I feel any different lest I consume it excessively (about a litre).
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#24I have quit coffee for the last two years, aside from a very rare (once every four months or so) dessert coffee.
I used to depend on coffee intellectually, I always had to have a cup next to whatever work I was working on, and a pot brewing to back up the cup when I was finished.
Quitting was very difficult, but I have learned to appreciate moving through work slowly, carefully, cautiously, and with regular pacing, that I can meta-regulate with multiple levels of thought and planning. When I used to drink coffee, it just felt like all of my attention was superficially and strictly devoted to whatever work I had to pound out.
I still drink tea, from white tea to oolongs, but this has no where near the effect coffee has on me. Caffeine from coffee makes me feel like someone has thread tied into my eyeballs and into the center of the prefrontal cortex of my brain, and is pulling on it with shaking hands. I assume that is hypertension. It's the worst 'focused' feeling I know of, and I absolutely can not get work done in this state any longer.
I really like being able to think slowly, with occasional minor distractions. It's more reliable, has more coherency, and builds on itself naturally.
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#25I've stopped drinking coffee after being addicted to it for about 16 years. First week was terrible, then the withdrawal effects stopped. I pretty much feel the same now as I was after drinking my first cups of coffee. I've got more energy over the day because there are no phases of low caffeine anymore.
Also, not being addicted to it makes things like occasional energy drinks in emergencies really useful. I needed to rescue a lost couchsurfer in the middle of the night - which I wouldn't have been able to do before. A few sips of energy drink made me really awake in order to drive safely. There's so much difference between the the effects on when you are addicted to it and not.
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#26I don't drink a lot of coffee, perhaps one or two cups a day - not every day.
Instead I used to drink energy drinks, at one point it was one a day (think RedBull sized). It's now been almost 6 months. It's so incredibly difficult to walk by and not feel tempted by their tastes and smells, but I know that if I were to drink it, it'd make me sick.
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#27I quit coffee two years ago to help curb anxiety problems. I noticed I get less done, now, but what I do get done is of a higher quality, and I am less obsessive. It seems that slow, expansive thinking is more useful than turbocharged, focused thinking for certain kinds of work. Definitely a better default mode, at least.
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#28I really like and enjoy good coffee. I buy roasted beans and I like to grind myself since I am the only one that drink coffee in home and beans preserve the taste and smell better.
I can go without coffee for few days, I alternante with "mate" [1]. Mate is awesome because how it taste, it is very different from one yerba to another and is awesome because the way of drinking it. I literally can drink 2L of mate through the morning while working.
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#29I probably drink more coffee than water a day.
Anywhere from 2-3 cups to 10+ cups. I have a super high caffeine tolerance that I can easily throw back a cup or 2 right before bed.
Getting close to 10 or over probably ly pretty bad. My digestive system is very quick, all this coffee running through.
Like others posted. I do it for the taste.
Occasionally I switch to teas in between cups of coffee but there are many days I go without coffee without any noticable effects.
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#30I quit coffee when I started strength training specifically to boost my workouts. A regular coffee drinker develops a tolerance towards caffeine and the only benefit that coffee provides at this point is withdrawal suppression. I now take a 200 mgs caffeine pill 30 mins before a workout and it it a tremendous training booster.