Caffeine or Nicotene - which is harder to give up?

Hello there maezee, well I managed to do both, and I found the smoking easier to stop and I think that was because I realised how much money I was saving very early on after stopping smoking, so I gave myself a bit of an incentive really.
Coffee was really hard to give up, and I had the shakes for months, sore heads and all I would say to people was look out!!!!
Caffeine I would say is the harder of the two to give up, well it was for me.
I havent touched proper coffee again, but I have had de-caf. Yukk.

I think you should try control smoking because i think it affects your health more serious than Caffeine.
Quitting on coffee is hard, especially when you need concentration in your work.
However, you can try tea instead of coffee.( i recommend Chinese Tea, if you can find it in the stores)

I have started to try and quit smoking and so far things have been going pretty good. There is no way that I could given up my caffeine first though or there would have been no way that the quitting smoking would have worked at all. I work twelve hour shifts and I work the overnight shift so I have to have something to do to keep me awake and my mind off of cigarettes!!
Smoking is also much worse for your health than caffeine so there are many more advantages to you and those around you if you quit smoking first!! Just think about all the money you can save by quitting and how much better your clothes will smell and your food will start to taste so much better than it does when you smoke!! There is a lot to be gained by quitting smoking and I would say that after you have quit for awhile if you still want to give up caffeine then you could try and slowly cut it out to. I wish you luck and I know that it will be hard but you just got to stick with it and beat the addiction.

I Don't smoke, but I do need them coffees in the morning to get me going....

I smoke sometime and am not addicted to it.But my father is addicted to smoking and almost can't quit,as he have quited alcohol.So i just buy him some pear to do some help for his health.I think you should drink tea instead.As far as quitting smoke,eating some radish will help you.

I would sy that you should quite the smoking first. I totally feel your pain, as i am addicted to both of these substances as well, and with in a year will be starting my ettempt to stop smoking. I have always said i would quit smoking when i turned thirty, which is next summer...getting myself psyched up for it already!!

But back on subject. Smoking cause more health damage, and the sooner one stops, the sooner ones body can start healing itself. And many times when people are quiting smoking, they tend to rely more on any other bad habits, such as eating or what not, and i think not having the caffine to satisfy yourself when you are giving up harsher nocotine would just be more likely to cause a relapse into one, or the other, or both.

For me I would have to say that nicotine is harder to give up but I've been trying to give it up and I don't think it's that hard to not smoke that much. I haven't completely quit but I've definitely cut down a good amount. Caffeine is not all that addicting to me because I don't really drink coffee or anything so the most caffeine that I probably consume are energy drinks or pop or something.

i can quit both. actually i don't smoke. then i do drink coffee once in a while. i can easily drink chocolate or just cold juice instead if i have to give up coffee. i don't really like drinking os much often. i tried to have this habit of drinking coffee but i just easily give up on this habit. i just like drinking other drinks. i like trying out new drinks

I quit smoking after 12 years with out any pills, patches, or gum it really came down to the fact that I was ready and I wanted to quit but also I need the money more than I needed to quit smoking I added it up and it was pretty much equal to the ammout that I was short on rent the month before and I realized I would have $60 extra dollars every month. (at that time cigarettes where much cheaper than they are now) I have had a serious Caffine addiction my whole life everything I love has caffine in it and there is no gum or patch for it. I have had many kiddney problems in my life and the caffine is VERY bad for it but I can masange to cut back and stop for short periods of time but no more than a 2 week period and I will have one Dr. Pepper and then its all over. Caffine has been a hard habit to kick.

I drink instant coffee with caffeine. I love it but I don´t think I would not be able to change it for another drink. I quit smoking a year and a half ago. I smoked for 50 years. The last years I was smoking 2 packs and discovered that I couldn´t afford it. My liungs are PERFECT after these years of smoking. I have a cousin who is a doctor and specialist in lungs and he checks me every once in a while and hates me for having such good lungs.
Why don´t you talk about this with a doctor. Maybe even with a psichiatrist. Let him see how much it hurts your health and which is worse. You can´t leave both at the same time. You´ll have to be helped with your anxiety.
Take care!