Three Months Without Drinking Coffee and I Am Counting

Congratulations, I wish I could give up my caffeine like you did. You were very lucky to not have the headaches, they can be horrible.

Hi. I am glad you are so determined to stop drinking coffee, and successful at that. I drink at least 2 cups per day also, maximum of three. I do that to combat my sleepiness. I usually sleep late at night and have to wake up quite early. 8am is already early for me. Wish I could wake up around 11! LOL. You mentioned about drinking tea instead. Just try go easy on tea also because it stillhas caffeine, unless you go for the caffeine-free. It's actually the caffeine that's giving you palpitations. Cheers!

I love coffee, especially since I live right around the corner from Tim Horton, and he has me wrapped right around his little finger slapping me round and round with his coffee just like he does with his hockey stick. I have gone off caffeine voluntarily a few times in my life, but I am pretty badly stuck on it and always end up back on it in a short time. My son has inherited my love for caffeine but he's been off it now for for over three months. He had a hard time at first with headaches but he's ok now. He knew he needed to get off when he started having withdrawals if he missed even a part of day without caffeine. Plus he was drinking energy drinks like Rockstar. He went off just before he went into the hospital for pneumothorax last spring, which had nothing to do with caffeine but is a lung defect he just suddenly developed. He was so glad that he had done the WD before he got pulled down by the illness. He would have been pretty miserable in the hospital if he had needed his strong caffeine doses. This time, this past week, when he went in for the planned surgery to fix the pneumothorax, he had no problems missing his caffeine as he had been off it for a long time now. I'm very proud of both of you. Be careful...tea has other chemicals that emulate caffeine, and some teas add caffeine...like Morning Thunder by Celestial Seasonings.

I love my coffee and find it hard to give it up. Now, I'm pregnant again and I've switched to decaf. It's better than nothing. I wish I could drink the real thing but I know it will be a long while before I can do that again. I just have one cup of decaf a day now. Maybe you can try that if you want some coffee some time. That will not give you the heart palpitations like the normal coffee with caffeine does.

Well done you (of course if you're still off the coffee to this date)! I've never been a coffee drinker so don't know about that addiction, and nor have I ever been a tea drinker. It's pretty weird because my parents drink a lot of tea and so does my younger brother but somehow I never got into it. I don't even have coffee in the house for visitors (which is something I keep meaning to fix)! I hope you're still off the stuff and coping fine hun :)

I am also a coffee addict but fortunately until now I have had no problems. As a child I used to drink tea because my parents did but later I discovered coffee and switched totally to it. I know that strong tea is even more harmful than coffee. A friend of mine was giving up coffee by drinking tons of black tea and this certainly wasn't the way to go. I haven't seen here recently but I think she switched back to coffee but in more moderate quantities.

Congratz on staying away from the caffeine. I fear that I couldn't go a week, much less three months, without a cup of coffee.

Oh, you are great! I like your determination, I like coffee and I drink it once or twice per day but sometimes I don't drink it for all the day. I know coffee can birng you to addiction and giving up drinking it is quite difficult. You said you have stopped drinking coffee because you I thought you was having an heart attack, so what you want to say is that a person is determinated to stop one of his habit when he thinks it will hurt him, this is similar to stop smoking: when you feel fine you don't mind to possible pains and deseases, but when something is not functioning well you immediately stop smoking. However, you are doing a good job, go ahead!!

I admire your will power. I've cut down to just 2 or 3 espressos a week though so I feel I'm doing pretty well. I don't drink from a coffee pot any more so I don't feel the need to drink coffee all day any more. It really does kill your teeth. I keep reminding my self that every time a craving comes on.