I take 1 scoop of my pre workout 400mg caffeine thats my only caffeine source. Ownage style

 

Day 2 and I already want to quit and go back to three or more cups a day, lol. I stuck to my plan and had one in the morning and then drank another throughout the day to keep the withdrawal symptoms down. Addiction is a bad thing :serious:

 

I wish you all the best, lol. I love my coffee and will never give it up. Although there are some days when I have only one and there are days when I have three. Today will be one of the days I have three, haha. Thankfully, I haven't linked my anxiety to caffeine.

 

I need my daily coffeee

 

I would die.

 

I never got into drinking coffee but I did give up sodas back in march.

 

Jeez.. I need support here people, lol :roll

I have a funny feeling I won't be able to give up coffee anyway but even just cutting back to one a day would be a big victory.

 

NOOOO, don't go to the Dark Side!

 

Good luck! I'm really addicted to caffeinated cola and drink way too much. Really need to quit.

 

I never got into coffee, didn't even try it until my late teens, and I can't stand it. Too bitter for me.

But I really should cut back on sodas. I'm trying, mostly drink water, but I love me sodas when I eat dinner or go to fast food places.

 

I recently cut back to a weak cup in the morning. I linked caffeine intake to increased Valium withdrawal anxiety.

 

Heck no. Coffee is the only reason why I get out of bed early and it also helped me lose weight. I only drink one cup of coffee a day and will drink mint tea later on if I'm still feeling sleepy. Drinking more than one cup of coffee a day puts you at risk of heart disease. So good for you for giving it up.

 

Day three and I'm off the wagon.. Had my morning cup as planned and then around 9:30 it was break time at work and I said to myself "f**k this, I need coffee". So I got myself one and then in the afternoon I drank my emergency withdrawal coffee too.

I'll see how tomorrow goes.

 

I like to gradually taper off of coffee, just like any other addictive drug.

 

I don't actually plan on coming off coffee, but I am steadily trying to make it more healthy. I used to have 2 cream and 2 sweetener. I went to 2 milk and 2 sweetener overnight. My next plan is to go down to one sweetener.

 

I take it with 2 cream and 2 sugar and would like to get down to just 1 cream or maybe just black. But I hate the taste of coffee on it's own.

I gave it up as well. It has helped no doubt about it. Coffee causes a spike in blood pressure, and if you have anxiety chances are your blood pressure already spikes at random times. It also increases cortisol the stress hormone, which if you have anxiety you don't need any more stress haha. It took about a week for me to notice a difference. I was way less stressed.

This is what I've heard and it's the main reason I'd like to give it up just to see how it feels.

 

I like coffee. It makes me shake sometimes but that's different from having anxiety.

 

I gave it up as well. It has helped no doubt about it. Coffee causes a spike in blood pressure, and if you have anxiety chances are your blood pressure already spikes at random times. It also increases cortisol the stress hormone, which if you have anxiety you don't need any more stress haha. It took about a week for me to notice a difference. I was way less stressed.

 

No way, I love my coffee. It doesn't give me hangovers. I'd be more interested in giving up alcohol.....if I could find a better substitute.

 

This has to be the hardest thing I've ever done, lol. Of all the things I need to work on and fix I thought giving up or at least cutting back on coffee would be the easiest.. No, I can't do it.

I have my morning coffee again and go into work and the boss has coffee for us just sitting there. People are saying thanks but I wanted to say F*** you! I ended up having four coffees today :frown2:

 

Just keep trying, most times quitting requires a bit of practice. If you can get down to 1 cup in the AM regularly, soon you will adapt to that level of caffeine, after that, it's not that difficult to stop, or you could continue to wean and go to 1/2 cup etc. The method is not nearly as important as the outcome.

 

In school I would often ween myself off coffee when long tests were coming up, so that I wouldn't have to worry about getting up to pee during it. I know that after withdrawals pass, I'm basically the same in every way, except that I can't get away with skipping sleep to make it up on weekends. I need coffee to let me skimp on sleep during the week. My anxiety was unchanged, depression may have been worsened.

 

Yesterday, I forced myself not to drink any soda. Huge improvement from drinking over 6 cans everyday. Managed to get by with drinking water with lemon juice. Think I might give in today though

 

Today was a better day. Had my morning cup to get myself going and then had another about four hours later around 9:30 at break. After that I didn't feel the need to have anymore. For me that's huge not wanting a coffee in the afternoon.

 

I'm trying to cut down on caffeine but it doesn't help when my boss buys huge packs of Red Bulls and always grabs me one if he gets one. Always :hyper and I think it does contribute to anxiety a bit.

 

Similar to yesterday with no coffee in the afternoon but three in the morning. Over the weekend should be better. The goal is no more then two each day with both coming in the morning.

 

No Tv and No coffee make M0rbid something something

 

I have to drink it to counteract the tiredness I get from the Paxil.

Then again, I only get six hours of sleep a night and need weekends to sleep!