Coffee: Going Cold Turkey
on 10.25.06, 04:00pm in life • comments (16)
After my friend Michael sent me this article on how caffeine addiction can be classified as a mental disorder, I’ve decided to go cold turkey on my daily coffee habit.
A typical coffee morning for me breaks down to a triple-venti non-fat latte on the ride into work which is followed by 2-3 12oz cups from the iCup throughout the morning. All I know is that adds up to almost 56oz of coffee drinks in the morning. It’s way overboard, and I have to stop it now.
Wish me luck.
Update: I am weak. I lasted until 8:00am when I caved and had a 12oz iCup.
Streams (October 25, 2006 @ 6:00 pm)
That’s rough. Let’s talk about it tomorrow morning over coffee.
JeffMc (October 25, 2006 @ 7:01 pm)
I was going to ask you to meet up for coffee…
Jason Haley (October 25, 2006 @ 7:05 pm)
Good luck! You will be fine … you just need to make it through the next 4 days - then you will probably end up having more energy … still crave the coffee though
stacy (October 25, 2006 @ 7:16 pm)
oooooh, good luck to you. you are much stronger than me. have fun with the shakes and the lovely side effects that happen when you go cold turkey.
stacy (October 25, 2006 @ 7:18 pm)
BTW - are you changing your banner now that you’re off coffee??
Randy (October 25, 2006 @ 10:30 pm)
Good luck, but I’ll stick with the disorder. The last time I went off caffeine I had 4 days of a general buzzing in the back of my head and it didn’t seem worth it. I didn’t even get a “I Kicked Coffee And Alls I Got Was This T-Shirt” t-shirt.
In fact, much like how “Supersize Me” sent me to McDonald’s for dinner, I’ma go get a latte now.
Jim (October 26, 2006 @ 10:14 am)
That’s my boy. Come back to the Dark Side.
Michael (October 26, 2006 @ 4:36 pm)
Ah well, I was just joking with you anyway. Caffeine’s pretty low on the list of your mental problems.
I don’t drink coffee, but soda and hot chocolate are sweet nectars of life. Giving it up is tantamount to joining a monastery and selling all your earthly possessions except for a simple wooden bowl. While you’re at it, rename the site to FurryGhandi.
dso (October 28, 2006 @ 1:55 pm)
Does this mean that you are selling your SBUX?
Steve (October 28, 2006 @ 3:13 pm)
No way! My SBUX stock is the best perfoming in my portfolio..
Rick Lobrecht (November 4, 2006 @ 6:14 am)
I went off coffee for a while, mostly for heart burn reasons. The headaches were the worst for me. Almost a month of caffine withdrawl headaches.
To not quite go cold turkey, try switching to hot tea or hot chocolate.
Anna (November 20, 2006 @ 6:38 am)
I’m onto day three of stopping cola and tea…and I feel so bad that my husband is insisting I go to the doc’s tomorrow. I have had blinding headaches on the left hand side….nausea, I feel dizzy and zero energy. Bit better now I’m on day three but still so tired and I have slept for hours and hours over the week-end. The dark side is calling me back…but to be honest, if this IS caffeine withdrawal then I won’t ever touch the stuff again as God knows what it has been doing to me. Have to go….and have another mug of…..water.
CARTOR (December 29, 2006 @ 3:15 am)
There arise problems if we discontinue to take the Coffee like stuff.I think we all got habituated to caffine products.
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James
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