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Quitting caffeine is hard, but I found a workaround: get the flu. If you're like me, when you're sick in bed, the last thing you'll want is coffee. By the end
by skrebbel 9y ago
Quitting caffeine is hard, but I found a workaround: get the flu.
If you're like me, when you're sick in bed, the last thing you'll want is coffee. By the end of your flu, you'll also have gotten off caffeine and you'll have ascribed the withdrawal symptoms to the flu. Done! Now go buy some decaf :-)
- 0xbear 9y agoDecaf does contain caffeine though.
- skrebbel 9y agoTrue, but very little.
- jeffwass 9y agoBut you're also putting faith in the person who prepared it that it truly is decaf. I've been burned by getting regular coffees at restaurants and coffee machines when I ordered decaf. I wonder how hard it would be to have a "litmus paper" style test for caffeine.
- 0xbear 9y agoAbout 15-20% of full strength. Hardly negligible.
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- mcbits 9y agoMore like 5%, but it's high enough that if you measure your coffee intake in pots/day then there is still enough caffeine for physical effects and dependence.
- arooaroo 9y agoMy father quit smoking this way.
- 52-6F-62 9y agoI quit smoking similarly -- a bit of a hangover, an illness, followed by a terrible week of digestive issues (likely due to the quitting smoking) and after the week, not starting again wasn't a problem. Now I wish I'd never done it in the first place, but here we are. I think it just comes down to feeling unable to procure the item of your addiction -- and the mental position to want to leave it behind. I couldn't properly quit until that point... pure resolve. Pure resolve, and being stuck in bed in terrible pain for a week (haha?)