Addicted to coffee, how do I stop?

To me, it sounds like you have serious issues. I would seek out professional help.

Tim

Cold Turkey is the only way.

Throw out all your coffee and your coffee maker and you're off to the races.

Careful or you might get those coffee beans that have cocaine stuffed in them

Run Gum is the answer!

Are you really overdoing it? Do you have a burr grinder, scale, chemex kit, single origin arabica beans, and a drift subscription? If not, try harder.

Tea. Less caffeine, it's made one serving at a time, easier to moderate.

YARLY wrote:

Tea. Less caffeine, it's made one serving at a time, easier to moderate.

Tea is the GOAT when it comes to drinks, especially caffeinated ones

Coffee is a nectar of goodness. Just make another pot.

I've tried to give up coffee, or severely cut back, a thousand times. It's really hard to break the habit completely.

More realistically, try finding your tolerable upper limit (the point at which you don't experience bad side effects) and try to stick with that. For me that's 2 cups of coffee roughly evenly spaced throughout the day. I can stick to that without wanting more.

Tea is a good option too, although I find I just drink more and more until I'm getting too much caffeine.

fresh powre wrote:

Run Gum is the answer!

Yes it is!!

Start brewing with an aeropress. Since it only makes one cup at a time and it’s kind of a process to make a cup, it forces you to stop and think about whether you really want another cup. If I make a pot of drip coffee, I will just keep drinking until it’s gone. If I’m using the aeropress, I’m more likely to stop after a cup or two. Plus the aeropress just makes great coffee.

CoffeeYum wrote:

Coffee is a nectar of goodness. Just make another pot.

Agree. I fail to see the problem..

OK seriously, I'm sure there is a level that is "too much", but exactly how much are you drinking, OP?

If coffee consumption is your biggest problem in life, go have another cup.

bigmoneyproblemsz wrote:

Stopped drinking. Been working from home from parents. I have nothing “exciting” to look forward to, so I just overdo it with coffee every day to get a buzz.

What should I do?

Sounds like you need to start drinking again...

Rhodium Nights wrote:

YARLY wrote:

Tea. Less caffeine, it's made one serving at a time, easier to moderate.

Tea is the GOAT when it comes to drinks, especially caffeinated ones

^ This exactly.

IIRC, white and black tea have the most caffeine, but it's not as much as coffee. Green tea has less, and herbal teas usually have a negligible amount if they have any caffeine at all.

If you can't just switch cold turkey, try to drink only half as much coffee as normal, or try brewing your coffee with half the amount of grounds you normally do. After a week or so, half the amount again, and continue until you get your daily caffeine total to around 150mg or preferably lower; then when you switch to tea you won't go through caffeine withdrawal.

Obligatory disclaimer that YMMV, this is just what worked for me when I was trying to get from ~400-500mg/day of caffeine to a more reasonable number. When you first start you might get a caffeine headache but that stops after a day or two. Hope this helps, good luck!

Cut carbs not coffee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE5fVTvscM

Are your teeth stained brown? That's partly why I stopped drinking coffee. I also noticed that drinking chocolate milk (almond/soy/real) stains my teeth pretty badly. I've been going overboard using teeth whitening toothpaste with my sonicare toothbrush recently.

YARLY wrote:

Tea. Less caffeine, it's made one serving at a time, easier to moderate.

Unless you use a teapot or pot. My GF makes tea in a normal pot, and puts in at least 10x the amount of tea (loose or off a brick of tea) that my mom would put in. And wonders why a $20-30 brick of tea doesn't last very long.

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