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When I was in high school, I always had major anxiety issues. I realized later in life that it was my excessive amount of caffeine I was ingesting on a daily b
by billy99k 2y ago
When I was in high school, I always had major anxiety issues. I realized later in life that it was my excessive amount of caffeine I was ingesting on a daily basis.
I mostly cut all forms of caffeine completely out of my diet since January. As as long as I get 6 hours of sleep or more, I find that I can focus better, I have energy throughout the whole day, and the sleep I do get feels like I'm more rested.
Even if I got the same hours of sleep every night, I had a hard time getting up in the morning with caffeine in my daily diet.
- 1oooqooq 2y agoGet ready for some mood swings and anger issues, unless you still drink tea or other caffeine sources. nobody cold quit caffeine after drinking if since highschool. my first attempt lasted 3mo, the second one 6mo. every I've settled in coffee only in the early morning. ... worst part is the headaches when your addicted brain crave it.
- John23832 2y ago> nobody cold quit caffeine after drinking if since highschool. That's your experience, not a fact. I cold quit last year after drinking energy drinks since college (right before I quit I was multiple redeyes a day). Yes there are withdrawal symptoms but, through force of will, it is doable.
- janderland 2y agoThis narrative is seen way too often. “Here is how a drug affected me so get ready for it to affect you the same way.” Gets really tiring if you browse drug forums.
- rubslopes 2y agoA physician told me that, while caffeine abstinence effects are real, they go away fast relative to other addictive substances.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago"Fast" in my case turned out to be 2-4 days for the main physical symptoms such as headaches. So yeah, not a very long time as these things go.
- lenkite 2y agoYep, I could only cold-quit cigarettes. Soft-quitting never worked for me. Had to hard-stop and never take one again. Every time I felt the craving - 5 pushups! Doing "Hard No" is easier for some people than "Do Less".
- Xeyz0r 2y agoMany people successfully reduce or eliminate their caffeine intake with the right strategies and mindset.
- Xeyz0r 2y agoIt so hard for me to give up caffeine completely
- euroderf 2y agoOne data point. In my 30s, quitting coffee led quite quickly to nasty headaches. Retrying in my 60s, no such headaches.
- albrewer 2y ago> quitting coffee led quite quickly to nasty headaches That's caffeine withdrawal. That goes away after awhile, but it depends on how heavy an addict you were.