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Two days coffee-free 4 weeks ago

I started on the 2nd of June
I thought i was going to die at first but i’m doing pretty well. I didn’t even take painkillers today!



kristenck1989 is procrastinating studying for the Geology test.

Well I stopped for a while but I've started again... 1 month ago

For a while I’d kicked coffee altogether except this quarter’s been rough. I feel like I’m not getting enough sleep and I’ve turned to coffee once again. Luckily I haven’t been having the same bad effects… still, I want to try to kick it again.



Time to give this a go again 2 months ago

I drink far too much coffee these days and I don’t even particularly enjoy it.
It’s now 11.53 and I haven’t had 1 drop of coffee. I think I’ll go get a starbucks in the afternoon and that’s it. I feel tired, but that’s probably because I didn’t sleep well which most likely was because I’d had too much coffee.



Gloworm09 needs a fresh start

I have 2 months ago

a headache.



I want to quit but I am soooo addicted 2 months ago

I don’t want to be dependent on coffee to wake me up in the morning. I am a zombie without it. I can’t function. I crave it like a drug! I know it is healthier to clean out my body and give it up. I just can’t seem to let it go completely. I have tried to suffer through quitting cold turkey-that was a painful experience to say the least. I think my body is unhealthy so if I can just give my body the support it needs without coffee I think I will feel better than I have ever thought possible. I want to do this!!!



I just realized... 3 months ago

After all the effort I have put in NOT drinking my morning coffee, two months, I have just realized that I don’t miss it and actually I don’t think I LOVED coffee as much as I thought… I used to put so much sugar to sweeten it up that it wasn’t the cofee taste I was enjoying but the sweetness! So I did it!!!



...and coke, etc 5 months ago

I do this for a while, but if I have one cup again I start craving it and I know too much messes with me and stops me getting to sleep. So I’m giving up altogether.



Coffee 5 months ago

I really want to stop drinking coffee, because it has wrecked my teeth, and it also hurts my left chest, it gets all tight whenever I drink it and it feels like the tissue in my chest is wearing down, also im sick of feeling buzzed out on coffee all the time i just want to feel fresh and clean and not have to have caffeine constantly, I’m so sick of it!



kristenck1989 is procrastinating studying for the Geology test.

Substituting Tea 5 months ago

So, I’m on my way to kicking out caffeinated beverages altogether by substituting tea!! Well, yes, I’m drinking tea with caffeine (my preferred is a cup of Tazo Joy tea in the morning which is a blend of Black and Green which both have natural caffeine) but the caffeine in tea is nowhere near the amount in coffee.

The main difference is, I haven’t had a panic attack in a while. The last time was one week ago, which was, I think, the 2nd day having only caffeine from tea. The whole day I was really nervy, having waves of mild to moderate panic attacks. I think it was a bad combination of withdrawl symptoms (because I would normally have 2-3 shots a day), lack of sleep, and a certain time of month ending (for some reason the last 2 days or so give me just as much hell as the week before it starts). Anyway, that day was really, really bad, I was even having occasional heart palpitations all day. I mean I would get heart palpitations before (comes with being an extremely anxious person) but nothing like that. Since that day though, I’ve been feeling good. More energized, I think.

The next step is to ween myself off of excessive caffeine through tea. I have one cup in the morning but then I also have a habit of having a cup of tea in the afternoon (like, a starbucks London Fog Tea Latte during lunch, or another cup of joy tea when I get home) and even that amount of caffeine is sometimes enough to keep me up at night.

On kind of a tangent, this is the reason that I keep myself away from ANYTHING that could become addictive. I have an addictive personality. I mean, there are a MILLION other reasons that I am extremely anti tobacco, alcohol and drugs, but that’s one personal reason why I will never smoke even one cigarette, drink even one beer, or do one joint of marijuana. It’s bad enough just being addicted to caffeine.



day 2 5 months ago

Its day 2 with no coffee, and I am completely out of it. I had some yerba mate, and I know that it has caffeine, but it’s NOTHING like the effect that coffee has. So, I am super tired and lethargic. All I want to do is eat and sleep. I am starting to question whether or not I can get anything done without coffee! Strangely, I don’t really have a headache. Anyone else have the extreme lethary and out-of-it-ness? I can’t complete a simple task.



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