Has anyone here tried quitting coffee for one reason or another? If so, what did you notice when you stopped?

Has anyone here tried quitting coffee for one reason or another? If so, what did you notice when you stopped?

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>what did you notice
More coffee threads on Any Forums to get me to start again.

>what did you notice when you stopped?
i quit cold turkey and got a headache for 2 weeks

Quit it twice because I got to the point of drinking like 2 pots a day and got anxiety and weird feelings. I drink coffee now, but avoiding drinking it black and adding lots of sugar and milk seems to prevent the negative effects I was getting

After years of drinking a fuckton of coffee and energy drinks interchangeably I cut energy Jews completely and switched to like 3 cups dark roast in the morning only.

Your sleep improves, you need less sleep, you may take more naps, idk. You rember your dreams more, and get less headaches.

Little change otherwise though

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Gone cold turkey several times from drinking 6-7 cups a day. I felt tired for like two days and then I was fine. I missed the coffee making and drinking ritual, though, it calmed me down and gave me something to do so I could organise my thoughts.

Quit and restarted so many times i lost count
>be completely hooked
>day is noticeably shittier when I don’t have caffeine
>energy levels and mood peak and wane based on caffeine
>want to quit
>quit
>feel dumb, slow, uncoordinated, sleep 10 hours a night
>everything sucks, no attention span, cant even play video games just lay around all day with zero effort entertainment in the background
>this goes on for like a week
>gets better
>after about two weeks I finally start finding enjoyment in things
>energy levels a lot more consistent, no crashing, appetite back to normal
>tolerance is probably down at this point
>see some guy taking preworkout blasting edm
>”damn that looks fun, ill have an energy drink tomorrow before lifting”
>have a sip
>incredible taste
>mood is amazing
>lifts are killer
>”holy shit this is awesome”
>slowly get sucked back in
>next thing you know, back to 300 mg caffeine a day just to feel normal
>back to square one
Yea im retarded

I became irritable. I'll never quit again as long as the magic of the supply chain from the tropics holds up.

i quit all caffeine. i noticed anger and agitation for the first week, and from then on realized i didn't need caffeine for anything. It's mild stimulant at best for cogntive activities like chess. Use it as needed for the *tiniest* edge in a cognitive task and not as part of the course a normal day. I also noticed I dont have that wiry kind of feeling where you can literally feel the cortisol and a tiny slight headache after having caffeine because i dont have it everyday. Id have that wiry feeling everyday and assumed it was normal but it's not and its releasing the cortisol that ages you and fucks your gains and makes your mood shitty. I rec quitting

>I quit drinking fuckton of coffee and energy
>I still drink 3 cups of coffee a day
you need help

Yeah, quitted it for two years. The reason was a bit stupid. I was doing serious cardio. Running sub 40 minute 10k, and my resting heart rate was mid 40s. I gave up coffee to see if I could get it under 40.
It was dumb as shit and I don't even remember if I succeeded.
I used to drink it everyday before that. Now the only time I have coffee is at work.

Maybe but I've gone cold turkey before and I just enjoy it in the mornings. Believe me, out of all the things I need help with, my relatively moderate coffee consumption isn't one of them

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Not a lot. Slightly longer to get my energy levels up in the morning but not enough to affect anything negatively. Never got caffeine withdrawal headaches, which I consider basedlet nocebo.

It's not nocebo.

I used to get headaches every sunday and I didn't know why. Even went to a doctor. Realized the problem was at work I would drink coffee multiple times a day but during the weekend I didn't, leading to the sunday headache.

I started drinking coffee in college and noticed it killed my wrestling cardio

I never drank it to begin with. had monster a couple times.

>3 cups
>relatively moderate

Coffee is a crutch for the weak. It does basically fuck all for you while also ruining your hormonal state. Stopped coffee because it's a drug and I'm no goddamned addict

Quitting coffee resulted in a worsening of my sleep maintenance insomnia that lasted almost two weeks, but the feeling of serenity in the absence of pointless stimulation was a rewarding transitional experience. After those two weeks the insomnia I had had for a few years improved and the energy I feel throughout the day is much more consistent. The cognitive benefits are probably largely due to the remission of insomnia, but also with caffeine, it was like various parts of my brain were being shut off from each other (something I could observe with acute dosing of caffeine) which was sort of like a mental tunnel vision. This was also killing my working memory. Both of these things have improved for me personally after quitting. Also if you are prone to excess anxiety it is doing you no favours.

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I noticed that I can't stop.

quit for 3 months once
>felt well rested when i woke up
>no anxiety
>no fatigue every day
>started dreaming again
>black circles under eyes gone
>social retardation suddenly gone
>didnt feel sick after eating
>nearly got rid of procrastination
i really hate that i started again.

Gave it up last summer. Didn't notice any difference. When the weather started getting colder, had a cup one morning. Laxative effect cut in almost at once.