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Yeah! Don't go cold turkey.
You should be OK in a few days. I just saw a TV story that followed a Mom who gave up coffee for a week and got headaches. She was OK in 2-3 days, but jumped on the chance to go back to coffe when the week was over.
I've gone from a full 10 cup pot to 8 cups or 2 1/2 big mugs worth. Good for me, huh?
tonycondon
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i quit soda over a year ago. went cold turkey, but i certainly wasnt averaging nearly what you were per day Jesse. The nice thing? Now a candy bar is all it takes to keep me awake for that last few hours. Previously I was in a permanently wound up state.
Matthew
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heh. I was at the FBO counter about a year or two ago waiting for my CFI to return from another lesson. The student (a physician) came in checked his messages, and called a patient back. I was waiting for the fuel truck and listened in. Patient was complaining about numbness in a finger that had just had some minor repairs done (sutures, or whatever). Also, a severe headache. The good doc assured the patient the finger situation was normal, anesthetic would take some time to wear off yet, that sort of thing. Then he got to the headache - you just had minor surgery, did you do anything different today? Skipped your coffee, you say? Are you a heavy coffee drinker? hmm, make a double strength cup of of coffee and see if that helps. Yes, I'm serious, and don't call me Shirley. (Actually, I added the Shirley part, but he did say the 'serious' part).
I only do about 2-2.5 cups a day during the week, then skip completely on the weekends. I can still tell a difference in withdrawals.
I only do about 2-2.5 cups a day during the week, then skip completely on the weekends. I can still tell a difference in withdrawals.
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I have been off of caffine for about ten years now. The funny thing is after going through withdrawal I know find that if I have a caffeinated beverage I get a headache.
I am super sensitive to caffeine, and more so to caffeine in coffee. I can't have a cup of coffee after noon without staring at the ceiling all night. Well, not all night... I'll fall right asleep but wake up at 2am and the sleeping is over.
Interestingly, caffeine in soda and tea doesn't affect me the same way. I used to have a cup of coffee every day in the morning and I did get the headaches when I stopped that. Now I usually have a diet coke in the mornings when I get to work, and that does it!
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Interestingly, caffeine in soda and tea doesn't affect me the same way. I used to have a cup of coffee every day in the morning and I did get the headaches when I stopped that. Now I usually have a diet coke in the mornings when I get to work, and that does it!
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I was never a coffee drinker, and have probably saved -- well, not spent -- a lot of money over the decades. And I'm not into the carbonated beverage habit.
Iced tea? That's a different story.
My mother was appreciative of Jack Daniels and I always had some ready for her visits from Arizona. When a JD bottle emptied I'd use it to mix iced tea which I'd then take to my store. When the bottle became close to empty I'd take it home to refill with more iced tea(which was about the same color as the original JD).
So, one shortly-after-midnight trip home, mostly-empty JD/iced tea bottle on the passenger's seat, I was stopped by Brunswick police, right in the middle of the bridge which separates Brunswick from Topsham. The usual introductory dialog occurred, "Have you had anything to drink, Mr. Crute?" "No, sir." Of course, he'd already surveyed the Buick's interior and followed by nodding toward the passenger's seat.
"Oh, that? That's my iced tea"(needless to say that the JD bottle looked original). He looked a bit perplexed.
"Yeah, it is; here, take a whiff," and I reached for the bottle and handed it to him. He took it, removed the cap, and smelled at the opening.
"Where are you going, Mr. Crute? "Home."
"Get the hell out of here, Jerry. Don't waste my time. The barflies will be coming across this bridge, shortly." Priceless experience.
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Iced tea? That's a different story.
My mother was appreciative of Jack Daniels and I always had some ready for her visits from Arizona. When a JD bottle emptied I'd use it to mix iced tea which I'd then take to my store. When the bottle became close to empty I'd take it home to refill with more iced tea(which was about the same color as the original JD).
So, one shortly-after-midnight trip home, mostly-empty JD/iced tea bottle on the passenger's seat, I was stopped by Brunswick police, right in the middle of the bridge which separates Brunswick from Topsham. The usual introductory dialog occurred, "Have you had anything to drink, Mr. Crute?" "No, sir." Of course, he'd already surveyed the Buick's interior and followed by nodding toward the passenger's seat.
"Oh, that? That's my iced tea"(needless to say that the JD bottle looked original). He looked a bit perplexed.
"Yeah, it is; here, take a whiff," and I reached for the bottle and handed it to him. He took it, removed the cap, and smelled at the opening.
"Where are you going, Mr. Crute? "Home."
"Get the hell out of here, Jerry. Don't waste my time. The barflies will be coming across this bridge, shortly." Priceless experience.
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My biggest vice has been soda. Fountain soda to be exact. I used to drive thru at least once a day to pick up a large Dr. Pepper from McD's or BK. 10 days ago I figured up that if I did that 10 times a week (I easily did it that often) at $1.55/trip, that was over $700/year spent on soda.
I'm on 10 days without a single drop of soda. It's been easier than I thought it would be.
I'm on 10 days without a single drop of soda. It's been easier than I thought it would be.
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Maybe the docs here have a better handle on this, but I learned first hand just how powerful a drug caffeine is....gave it up for lent one year while I was in school. After the third day with a 2:00 p.m. migraine, a classmate mentioned that he grew up on a farm with crummy water, and as a result from the time he was a kid till he was 16, he drank at least a couple of two liter bottles of soda a day. When his doctor forced his parents to take it away, he suffered debilitating headaches on and off for the following year and a half, so much so that his parents often had to come pick him up wherever he was if he was driving and was stricken (including, incidentally, cramping his senior prom).
I, luckily, only had a few weeks of headaches before they subsided. I later pondered the whole experience over a wonderful cup of joe on easter morning, and wondered why a merciful god would ever allow a member of the flock to voluntarily divorce himself from this wonderment (A.K.A. coffee, A.K.A. The Elixir Of Life).
I, luckily, only had a few weeks of headaches before they subsided. I later pondered the whole experience over a wonderful cup of joe on easter morning, and wondered why a merciful god would ever allow a member of the flock to voluntarily divorce himself from this wonderment (A.K.A. coffee, A.K.A. The Elixir Of Life).
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I have weaned myself off of caffein several times. I am a Mountain Dew addict. If I go cold turkey, I am ok for two days. The third day I get a headache that won't quit that lasts the better part of the next 4 days.
What I have found is if I cut down to one bottle every day for a week, I can quit after that week with no side effects.
Problem is, unless I have a Mountain Dew amount of caffeine within a couple hours of bedtime, I don't feel any effects. That is why I have had such a hard time staying off the caffeine. I just didn't see any reason since it didn't affect me that much.
Now I am noticing more symptoms that can be attributed to the caffeine, so I am trying to drastically reduce my intake. Caffeine free Mountain Dew is becoming my friend.
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I used to be both a coffee and Coca Cola fanatic, especially when I was working a graveyard shift. Went cold turkey about 10 years ago now, it was hard but went well.
Now I am at the point that I can enjoy the occasional cup of coffee or caffeinated tea and have no ill after-effects or fall off the wagon.
For soda drinkers...remember all the calories in most of those darn things? Switching to Fresca or something similar might enable you to kill two birds with one stone - weight struggles and caffeine.
Now I am at the point that I can enjoy the occasional cup of coffee or caffeinated tea and have no ill after-effects or fall off the wagon.
For soda drinkers...remember all the calories in most of those darn things? Switching to Fresca or something similar might enable you to kill two birds with one stone - weight struggles and caffeine.
jesse
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I always drink diet which pretty much eliminated that issue. My primary concern was about the long term health risks associated with aspartame. It has only really been used in mass quantinty since the 1980s. That means the current generation of diet pop drinkers will be the test group to see if there are any long term cancer risks. I decided to step out of this group.
silver-eagle
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Fresca with cyclomines. It was very tasty. Once it was proven cyclomines were cancer causing, they reformulated Fresca and it's never been the same.
If you have doubts about aspertane, quit it now. Somewhere in the future, you can be sure there will be a study that says it's cancer causing. They waffle so much on eggs and cholesteral, I would rather enjoy 3 or 4 eggs for breakfast than deny my enjoyment of them.
Oh, and as to caffeine, 6 cups of coffee a day, 4 made by me strong enough to stand on. Believe me, I know all about headaches and caffeine widthdrawal.
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Soda will be the end of me. When I die, I'll have a Dr. Pepper in my hands.
Sigh.
Sigh.
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I wouldn't waste time worrying or fretting about it.
Twenty years of special ops missions followed by twenty-plus years of federal law enforcement?
Hell, I got so much caffeine permanently imbedded in me that doctors from Johns Hopkins and the Mayo Clinic send their hardest narco-epilepsy cases my way. All they have to do is rub their hands over me and their sudden-sleep fits are permanently over.
Regards.
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Wow! That's an awful lot of soda!
My first year of college, I drank about 2.5 cases (60 cans) of Mountain Dew a week. Spring break sucked - I was in bed with a headache just about the whole week.
Typically I'll have a coffee in the morning, another 9-10ish and then a tea in the afternoon. If I'm offshore I may end up with 8 cups or so in a day. There are stretches where I live off it. Coffee, milk and 2 tablespoons of sugar. A meal in a mug. When I'm flying I avoid it because flying dehydrates me enough anyway.
I've been cutting back on caffeine which I drink as 2 pots of tea every day. Now, I make it from half regular tea and half decaffeinated tea. After deciding to stop my afternoon diet Coke, I spent hours craving one. Yesterday, I went ahead and bought a diet Coke and poured half down the sink before drinking it and the craving ended.
Is diet Coke addictive?
Is diet Coke addictive?
It's nasty is what it is. Aspertame is sooo bad for you as well. I'll stick with sugar.
silver-eagle
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Here's a good chart on the amount of caffeine in a drink. The FDA, Soft Drink Association, and various companies are referenced. Of course, if you want to get ahead of your caffeine quotient, try OTC drugs. Many use caffeine as a buffering agent and to improve the delivery system.
It's everywhere. Just cutting out drinks won't necessarily cut out caffeine.
It's everywhere. Just cutting out drinks won't necessarily cut out caffeine.
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In winter of '89 I was diagnosed with glaucoma, per doctors orders my caffeine intake ended there. Caffeine free for 9 years.
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If I don't get at least two "quad venti lattes" every day, I'm a decidedly different person. And I'd probably have been fired a long, long time ago for lack of productivity.
(And, as far as my typical Starbucks order above goes, it's not as bad as it sounds. From all the crazy stuff I hear when I'm there, it's apparently not really yuppie-chic unless the order consists of at least 6 words... "I'll have a grande, no-foam, low-fat, one hundred ten degree caramel macchiato in a double venti cup with two Sweet n' Lows".
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the antithesis of the above, the words that nearly got me banned from Starbucks ... "REAL Coffee! Like Folgers, Large"If I don't get at least two "quad venti lattes" every day, I'm a decidedly different person. And I'd probably have been fired a long, long time ago for lack of productivity.
(And, as far as my typical Starbucks order above goes, it's not as bad as it sounds. From all the crazy stuff I hear when I'm there, it's apparently not really yuppie-chic unless the order consists of at least 6 words... "I'll have a grande, no-foam, low-fat, one hundred ten degree caramel macchiato in a double venti cup with two Sweet n' Lows".
I avoid Aspartame and go with Splenda. I finally matched up cause and effect that excessive Aspartame was making me nutso. I used to down 4 or more 20oz bottles of Diet Pepsi a day.
Now my main challenge is finding drinks with Splenda in the convenience stores. There was was Diet Coke with Splenda but nobody carries it anymore. Diet Rite and Diet SevenUp has it, but they're caffeine free. Arizona Diet Green Tea has Splenda and a bit of honey. I'm starting to go with unsweetened Lipton iced tea. I'm supposed to quit soda anyway.
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"Soda"??? Like, baking soda? Soda water? I thought you were from around here, where it's "pop".
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Life is far too short to live without coffee. Then again, it's also far too short to live with coffee made at Starbucks.
"Soda"??? Like, baking soda? Soda water? I thought you were from around here, where it's "pop".
That too. I think it depends on where you grew up around here and how old you and you parents were and where they came from.
If they came from the south you'd be drinking Sebmup and Cocola.
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When I moved down here, I quickly came to realize ALL carbonated beverages are "Cokes."
Me: I'd like a coke, please.
Waitress: "What kind would you like, we have Sprite, orange, rootbeer..."
Me: Uh, just a Coke, please.
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Ha!
When I moved UP here, I realized that NOT all carbonated dark beverages are 'coke'.
Me: I'll have a coke, please.
Waitress: I'm sorry, we only have Pepsi.
Me: That's what I said.
That's actually required by Coke to protect their trademark. They don't want to become as what happened to aspirin, which is what happens when you let your trademark be used generically. Usually the waiter will do a simple "Pepsi OK?" not "No Coke. Pepsi!" It's supposed to be the same when you ask for Jello and they serve Royal.
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Oh thank you, thank you, thank you!
I feel soooooo alone as the only coffee drinker, one who prefers gourmet coffees, in my area that thinks Starbucks coffee SUCKS! It is as bad as Apple-fans with Starbuck'ers.
I drink one-to-two cups during the work week (morning only) and do not drink it on the weekends and I have not noticed any real adverse affects.
Then again...I avoid Starbucks like the plague.
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According to AP, Dr. Robert Bohannon has come up with a way to add ceffeine to baked goods like donuts! He's in talks with Starbucks, Krispy Kreme, and Dunkin' Donuts. One donut is the equivalent to two cups of coffee. Wow! Sugar, fat, and caffeine all in one neat package!
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How's this... I'm an "Apple-fan" and I think Starbucks sucks too.
I'm also a truck driver and I don't smoke.
Freak.
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Just as soon as I xerox the printout of this conversation, I'm going to go soak in the jacuzzi with some jello shooters...Trademark dilution. WOOHOO!! I actually remember something from Business Law!!
hmmm, thought for sure I could come up with more lower-case, trademarks-turned-common-terms than that...
I used to read Writer's Digest. Caterpillar ran ads in every issue that not every piece of track equipment was a Caterplllar(TM).