Coffee Addiction... Could You Quit?  

My doctor told me to quit drinking coffee.
And I thought I have very few pleasures in life I am not giving up.
So I changed to de-caf.
I could go without coffee no worries, I have done on several occassions and had no withdrawal.
When people say they are addicted to coffee, I just think it is they enjoy it and do not want to give it up.
Is there anything in coffee to become addicted to, I have never searched it, must do so.
I do not know if caffine is addictive or not.

I tried to give up caffeine twice. Once I made it six months, and once I made it one month. Both times I felt like crud in the beginning, but eventually I got used to it. It was completely idiodic of me to start drinking it again.

If I had to give it up now, I could do it, but I'd be very grumpy for a while. I really enjoy my coffee, but I don't know if I'd do decaf, just because I'd been too tempted.

I did give up cigarettes.....7 years ago! Would never, ever smoke again! Never! It was too hard to quit and I think my lungs would collapes in my chest.

I could probably switch to decaf coffee or soda. I do need some caffeine in the morning to get going, even on days when I get a good night's sleep. I've been cutting down on caffeinated soda by drinking flavored water in the late morning/early afternoon. Another suggestion I read was to combine fruit juice with seltzer water. I don't smoke and I only drink alcohol occasionally, so those aren't problems for me.

I don't drink coffee, but I do drink a lot of diet pop. I often say I'm addicted to it, but I'm not too sure about that, because I have had days where I don't have any, and drink just water instead.

I try to drink mostly diet pop that has no caffeine, so I think that would help ease the withdrawal symptoms.

I don't smoke anymore... I quit 6 yrs ago, and started drinking a LOT more diet pop. Coffee I never liked, and alcohol I can go without if need be. Thankfully, need never be. lol.

I don't know any Mormons... do you?

I don't think I could do it. I have quit smoking quite a few times and sometimes for long periods of time (like 5 years!!) I love my coffee and I can't survive the morning without having one or two cups. But that's it, no more otherwise I will be even more hyper than normal :)

I believe it is truly mind over matter. I have quit smoking for years at a time but have always started back up. That doesn't mean I didn't quit though. I could give up soda and coffee and alcohol and cigarettes if I absolutely had to.

But I won't hear this speech from my doctor for another week and a half so until then let the coffee brew, the smoke rise and the alcohol flow :)

How long have I been a Mormon??? hahaha....I left the Mormon Church oh lets see, at least 25 years ago. I didn't drink coffee then, but I did drink soda. I was a bad Mormon. I didn't give it up!
If the doctor told me to give it up or switch to decaf, it would go in one ear and out the other, just like me having to take cholestral pills. One cup maybe just maybe a 1/2 of another is all I drink. Once in a blue moon I drink soda, I don't do alcohol or anything else. So I would ignore him for sure, unless I became alergic to it. I figure it this way, it's the only bad vise I have!
Here's to a great cup of java!

Hello cheesehater

Years ago I gave up sodas for about two years just to see how I would feel doing so. I only drank juices, milk and water. I recall feeling great, physically, but then again I was very young then and I should have.

Over the years I've given up sodas at various times and had good results as far as weight loss goes.

There was also a very long period where I only drank sodas with no caffeine in them.

I say all of this to say that at times there is nothing I like better than an ice cold Coca Cola, however, if I was told I had to give them up, I could do it.

heheheehe you are too funny this morning!! Happy St Pats day to you... I won't give up coffee no matter who says i have to..lori

I had to give up coffee and let me tell you it was worse then when I quit smoking cigarettes. I had to having any caffeine when my seizures where happening often. My doctor cut out anything that might be a trigger that I could control. I did use cigarettes as the replacement at first but have long since quit smoking also. The headaches from not having caffeine were crazy. I was at the point at least once a day for about 2 weeks where I was in tears and telling people that I just wanted to rip my head off my shoulders to get rid of the pain.