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Cutting Down on Caffeine

Good luck.

I stopped caffeine for about 7 months. I underestimated how irritable I would become. Cold turkey quitting smoking was actually less aggro than quitting caffeine. I never wanted to punch so many faces in my life.

It took me almost 3 months to start not feeling withdrawal. ymmv.
 
I don’t think I missed a day of coffee for over 40 years. I just quit last fall and it turned out to be painless because I took the entire season: went from 1/5 decaf to full decaf by adjusting the proportions every couple weeks. No withdrawal symptoms aside from better sleep and less irritability
 
HarryBergers said:
Good luck.

I stopped caffeine for about 7 months. I underestimated how irritable I would become. Cold turkey quitting smoking was actually less aggro than quitting caffeine. I never wanted to punch so many faces in my life.

It took me almost 3 months to start not feeling withdrawal. ymmv.
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I've "quit" caffeine before for months at a time.

Getting used to just being tired when I should be tired was the biggest adjustment - sounds silly, but it was totally the worst thing about quitting.
 
Boris Bachmann said:
Something's going on w. Amazon links today. I tried to link something in the "fitness purchases" thread earlier and it didn't work there either.
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Weird. I never see it when someone puts a link in, but I can normally clink the link if it is tied to words.
 
I just limit my daily intake to 200mgs total. I don't mind relying a little bit on it when I need an extra boost, but if I felt like I needed more I'd rather just rest or rethink what I'm doing. lol
 
TedM said:
Also, the roasting profile AFAIK does not impact the caffeine amount. So a typical french-roasted Starbucks blend will taste "stronger" than an artisan Viennese, but the actual caffeine content may be the same.
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I think it's the other way around. The more you roast a bean, the more water and weight it loses. Therefore for a specific weight, you need more beans of highly roasted coffee. So the less roasted a bean is, the more caffeine it would have. I'm not sure how significant the impact is - might be negligible.
 
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I don’t think I missed a day of coffee for over 40 years. I just quit last fall and it turned out to be painless because I took the entire season: went from 1/5 decaf to full decaf by adjusting the proportions every couple weeks. No withdrawal symptoms aside from better sleep and less irritability
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Decaffeinated coffee still has caffeine so lack of withdrawal symptoms is to be expected.
I stopped for two weeks while living in Italy it was like a bolt gun to my head.
I mentioned my headache to Italian colleagues and they all recommended an espresso :-)
 
Boris Bachmann said:
I've "quit" caffeine before for months at a time.

Getting used to just being tired when I should be tired was the biggest adjustment - sounds silly, but it was totally the worst thing about quitting.
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A few months back I tapered down to zero mg. over a three week period ( Caffeine Blues by Cherniske ) and stayed at 0mg for a month. Dragged a$$ the entire month. Went back on. Have done this 3 or 4 times.
 
Boris Bachmann said:
Something's going on w. Amazon links today. I tried to link something in the "fitness purchases" thread earlier and it didn't work there either.
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The link works for me, but the picture never shows up, like your recent Recent purchase link. I see your description, which is followed by 3 inches of dead white space. Guessing something with my browser Ad block.

It was the jack, which shows up now. ??
 
Pete L said:
Decaffeinated coffee still has caffeine so lack of withdrawal symptoms is to be expected.
I stopped for two weeks while living in Italy it was like a bolt gun to my head.
I mentioned my headache to Italian colleagues and they all recommended an espresso :)
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Not drinking coffee in Italy? Serious willpower there!
 
Don Fairbanks said:
The link works for me, but the picture never shows up, like your recent Recent purchase link. I see your description, which is followed by 3 inches of dead white space. Guessing something with my browser Ad block.

It was the jack, which shows up now. ??
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Two separate issues here, I think.

We have a known problem with amazon.com links at the moment. If anyone wants a workaround, you have a few:

If you type in the name of what you want to link to then make it a live link, that works:

Mini Deadlift Jack on amazon

You need the thingie at the top of the message composition window that looks like a paper clip at a 45 degree angle. If you roll your mouse over it, it will say "Insert Link" and give a keyboard shortcut, Cmd+K for me.

NB: If you see the paper clip thingie but it's not live, look for a pair of square brackets towards the right - roll your mouse over those and it will say "Toggle BB code." Click that and then the link thingie will work.

NB: You want to highlight some text to turn into a link, then click the paper clip thingie, and then it will prompt you for the link itself.

You can also, as was done above, insert a screenshot and then a link.

We're pretty sure we know what the issue is and we have a fix to try, just haven't gotten to installing it yet.

-S-
 
HarryBergers said:
Good luck.

I stopped caffeine for about 7 months. I underestimated how irritable I would become. Cold turkey quitting smoking was actually less aggro than quitting caffeine. I never wanted to punch so many faces in my life.

It took me almost 3 months to start not feeling withdrawal. ymmv.
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Amen, 21 days of non-stop headaches for me!
 
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