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I am a coffee drinker but I don't really get boost or anything. Nor do I feel tired or anything else that could be called withdrawal during the weekends, when I
by gedrap 9y ago
I am a coffee drinker but I don't really get boost or anything. Nor do I feel tired or anything else that could be called withdrawal during the weekends, when I don't drink it.
For me, making a cup of coffee is just a... ritual of sorts. Weighting the beans, pouring over water, all these things. And I really enjoy the taste, trying different beans. I don't want to sound pretentious, it's just a hobby for me.
Maybe there are some alternatives to it (tea?) that have lower impact on health over time, but I haven't really explored it.
- PacketPaul 9y agoTwo days is not enough. Try being off it for a week. I bet you will feel terible on day 4.
- icantdrive55 9y agoEveryone is different. I still remember this doctor who wrote his horror story about quitting caffeine. (Looking back--I think the Dr. slept through Placebo, actually psychosomatic class.) For myself, I just noticed a slight headache around day two. So far I've kicked alcohol, tobacco, opioids, but still have a benzo addiction to kick. (I sometimes feel those of us living in modern societies have been conditioned into believing quitting is much more difficult than it actually is? My best friend thought because he didn't have a lot of self-control, stopping smoking would be the last thing he could do. Well he stopped, and told me those commercials equating it to quitting opioids were wrong, and he wished he quit 20 years ago.)
- acchow 9y agoI drink 3 cups of coffee every day. Often when traveling I'll have occasional periods of 3-5 days without any coffee whatsoever. Don't feel any different.
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- quickthrower2 9y agoWhen I give up I get bad headaches for 2 days then it gets easier after that. Been off for a few months now.
- rockostrich 9y agoI drink a cup of coffee every day. If I go a day without it, then I'll get a minor headache around 4pm and then the next day I'll be fine. It heavily depends on the person.
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoNot really. I drink coffee off and on throughout the day, too - but to be fair, I'm making each cup fresh and rarely drink two cups in a row. Folks react really differently to caffeine. I've never been able to use it to fight against sleepyness, for example. I'm fine drinking it before bed, though I try to give 30 minutes afterwards just so I can pee. I miss drinking coffee if I quit, and tea is hardly a replacement if you are skipping caffeine. (My other beverage is water, and I don't vary often). My father, on the other hand, needed to stop caffeine after lunchtime to sleep well at night. My mother develops headaches, which might not be a problem if it weren't for migraines and cluster headaches. Oddly enough, sometimes the caffeine helps that bit. Other folks get grouchy if they quit suddenly. A few get hungry, and some folks just feel generally bad.
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- stpe 9y agoI'm very much the same. And I do envy people who gets into some kind of hyper productive mode after a coffee, or like my partner who can't sleep at night if she gets a cup after 2pm. I can have a large cup of coffee at 10pm, become tired and be sleeping at 11pm. Also, during extended vacations (>2 weeks) I typically go without coffee and, what I can tell, don't feel the difference. I wonder why this is case...?
- heavenlyblue 9y agoI can have a cup at 16:00 and then have a problem sleeping at night. It does not make me hyper or active though - just keeps my anxiety levels higher so I can't fall asleep. YMMV.
- kahnpro 9y agoSeriously, try 1-2 weeks without coffee... you'll feel it.
- gizzlon 9y agoI did that, and after a couple of days the withdrawal disappeared and I felt exactly as before. No better and no worse. Started drinking coffee again since it's good, cheap and healthy-ish (at least more so than what I would replace it with). YMMV
- ApolloFortyNine 9y agoSame here. Except I don't notice any signs of withdrawal (and I drink multiple cups a day). There are people who drink a pot plus a day, maybe those are the ones who would really benefit.
- daxfohl 9y agoI drink a pot plus a day, stopped for a couple weeks, felt no difference. Prior to that I used to drink a 12-pack plus of diet soda a day. Stopped. BIG difference. I think the difference is that coffee is a morning thing for me. I'll get through the pot by noon and be done, so it doesn't affect my sleep.
- Sean1708 9y agoSome people don't though. I've gone months without drinking any coffee and months drinking 5 or 6 cups a day, and I've never noticed a difference (obviously there may be a difference and I just haven't noticed it).
- dagw 9y agoI have and I genuinely don't notice any significant difference compared to drink 3-5 cups a day.
- morley 9y agoIf you love coffee, the best alternative to coffee is decaf. If you buy directly from a great roaster, you'll hardly be able to tell the difference. I'm not sure I'd be able to in a blind taste test (decaf if anything takes a little less bitter in latte form). If you have a grinder, you could buy beans from any number of places online, like Blue Bottle. I'm lucky enough to live near a ton of roaster coffee shops that will grind bags for me.
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- gedrap 9y agoI considered this, but the options are very limited where I live (Lithuania). We have a few high quality local roasters, but even they have only one blend of decaf (and dozens of normal coffee).
- alvarezo 9y agoOff topic but I visited Lithuania recently and got acquainted with the šakotis. Now I'm back in Estonia and can't find it anywhere in stores and having withdrawal symptoms :D It was so good.
- rockostrich 9y agoI'm curious as to why you have the roasters grind the beans for you. Quality of ground coffee deteriorates much faster than whole beans. It depends on the grind size, but I'm pretty sure it's hours compared to weeks. A manual grinder like the Hario Skerton only costs $40 which is about the cost of a month of coffee beans for people who drink a cup or 2 every day.
- morley 9y agoI'm fairly lazy so rather than make one or two cups of coffee a day, I prefer to make a one-week batch of cold brew at a time. (It's also a pain to manually grind that much coffee at once.) Cold brew is a lot more forgiving about "grind freshness." I'm considering buying a grinder, but it'll probably be $100-200, and I'm not sure if that's worth the price when the coffee shop will do it for me.
- nailer 9y agoHad your DNA scanned? There are some protein configs that are associated with caffeine having a lesser effect. 23andme will show them up. I have them, and I find coffee aids digestion - I'll finish a big restaurant meal with an espresso - but I can immediately get to sleep when I get home.
- httpsterio 9y agoI'm the same. I don't get any effects until I drink about a pot of coffee (about a liter) in an hour or two and even then it's just my stomach that complains. For the record, I've gone over a month without coffee and still nothing.