Addiction to coffee

[Gerald1700]

Greetings to all
I find that am addicted to coffee
I have an addiction to coffee, like I usually drink coffee with fresh slices of bread when I come back home from school always, but there was this time I stopped drinking coffee for a day suddenly this got mu.heart pumping fast, I got scared, I got nervous, I think maybe its palpitations caused by caffeine in coffee, I quickly made myself coffee and all the nervous scared feelings immediately stopped, now I really told myself that I will stop drinking coffee, when I stopped I got depressed and stressed, but when I drinked coffee again, everything returned back to normal
Please help what can I do

[Hermes]

Coffee is a stimulant. What I would expect if had got used to drinking a lot of coffee and suddenly stopped is that you would be lethargic, i.e. not have much energy or enthusiasm.

There are three things you can do:

1. Not worry about the addiction and keep drinking the coffee.
2. Quit "cold turkey"
3. Phase it out, i.e. drink less over time until you get down to zero or a level of consumption you are happy with,

Coffee is legal, of course, so you don't have to worry about needing a dealer and, at least in moderate quantity, it doesn't seem to be bad for you, unlike tobacco, so just ignoring the addiction isn't completely silly.

If you go cold turkey the lethargy will pass in a few days. Phasing it out would mean the lethargy would not be as pronounced, though it would occur over more days.

[SethfromMI]

Coffee is a stimulant. What I would expect if had got used to drinking a lot of coffee and suddenly stopped is that you would be lethargic, i.e. not have much energy or enthusiasm.

There are three things you can do:

1. Not worry about the addiction and keep drinking the coffee.
2. Quit "cold turkey"
3. Phase it out, i.e. drink less over time until you get down to zero or a level of consumption you are happy with,

Coffee is legal, of course, so you don't have to worry about needing a dealer and, at least in moderate quantity, it doesn't seem to be bad for you, unlike tobacco, so just ignoring the addiction isn't completely silly.

If you go cold turkey the lethargy will pass in a few days. Phasing it out would mean the lethargy would not be as pronounced, though it would occur over more days.

pretty good advice and if you are looking to get rid of coffee it is probably easier to phase it out slowly

[Meh Guy]

2. Quit "cold turkey"



The only problem with this is just like anything else that your body is addicted to, it wants it. If you just get rid of it, you'll most likely get some negative effects for a little while, such as low energy and you'll probably feel really bad for a while. You'll also get the caffeine headaches



3. Phase it out, i.e. drink less over time until you get down to zero or a level of consumption you are happy with



pretty good advice and if you are looking to get rid of coffee it is probably easier to phase it out slowly

I'd suggest this, try to lower the amount of coffee or the number of cups a day every few days. You're body will slowly get used to not having as much caffeine. You don't have to cut it out completely, just to the point where you can go without it without having the negative effects