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Be Healthy: How to Give Up Coffee and Caffeine Altogether

dumblittleman.com — A few of the original readers of DLM may remember my article about quitting smoking. Well, after hearing that my father-in-law gave up coffee and caffeine 8 months ago and how it's impacted him, I decided to do the same.

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  • frenzy3, on 11/01/2007, -2/+16i have given up caffeine for 4 months now .. and get the best sleeps...and as the last point in the article as the same for me
  • Bukowsky, on 11/01/2007, -7/+59nice article, but I love my coffee... Not giving it up anytime soon!
    • vornan19, on 10/31/2007, -1/+9Amen Brother!
      They'll have to ban coffee before I stop! And not then either!
    • AgentKPB, on 10/31/2007, -2/+20I'm so sick of people bashing coffee, there are many health benefits to drinking coffee with or without caffeine. Just don't drink a damn gallon of it a day and you're ok. I'm glad you aren't giving it up anytime soon.

      http://men.webmd.com/features/coffee-new-health-fo ...
    • wushu18t, on 10/31/2007, -1/+2Never!!! *runs to mcdonalds*
    • Farnn, on 10/31/2007, -1/+5Same, I don't drink it out of necessity but rather because I truly enjoy a good cup of coffee, no milk or sugar, just plain old black coffee.
      • Mosatii, on 11/01/2007, -0/+3Black is the only way I can stand my coffee; which is a shame because I have more Starbucks than I can count around me (Starbucks is horrible for its actual coffee, which is always burnt or brewed badly).
        • troye, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1I think that it may be that particular restaurant. Some places have rookie managers that have bad quality control skills.
          • thumperings, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2what's wrong with wookie managers.
    • GasPoweredGnome, on 10/31/2007, -0/+7I never wake up thinking "I need a hit of that caffeine" when I go to brew my morning pot... but I do I love drinking coffee in the morning. The taste, the smell... its delicious. Unless I am secretly addicted to another property of coffee I'm unaware of, I'll just blame it on the taste :)
      • thumperings, on 10/31/2007, -0/+6same here. What's the point of reducing things we enjoy? So we can live a month or 2 longer? Would he also give up sex if it made him live a longer more boring life?
  • vault, on 11/01/2007, -0/+38Not everyone abuses it like the guy in this article...I love my morning coffee but I don't drink an entire 12 cup pot every day.
    • Dumbledorito, on 10/31/2007, -1/+4Jeeze. I just recently adopted coffee as a more efficent caffeine delivery system than soda, and I think two cups is more than enough per day to keep my motor running.

      I just wish CostCo carried the plain half-n-half creamers instead of only the French Vanilla ones.
      • 89vision, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1At two cups a day why would you buy creamer at Costco?
        • Dumbledorito, on 10/31/2007, -1/+2Because those little single-serve plastic cups of creamer they sell last forever. They're like ketchup packets for coffee.

          I'd swipe some from restaurants, but the only one that serves them is a Chick-Fil-A that's a half an hour from my house.
          • kindrobot, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1Reaf those packages carefully. The 7-11 locally here stores them at room temp just like the synthetic "creamers" even though the little half n half tubs say (in the smallest lettering you've ever almost been able to read) KEEP REFRIGERATED! Seriously, look for yourself.
            (but costco has HUGE cartons of half n half for about a dollar and change)
          • Dumbledorito, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1Indeed, but I don't consume cream at a fast enough rate to keep the carton from going bad before I'm done with even a third of the thing. That's why I prefer the single-serve ones, fake or real or whatever. Just not the powdered crap.
  • mrbubbleboy, on 11/01/2007, -3/+31I gave up coffee cold turkey...just switched to Red Bull.
    • DumbLittleMan, on 10/31/2007, -1/+3Ha - I tried that but I couldn't down a red bull at 5AM without having a major throat burn and watery eyes. Tea worked.
    • fuzzmeister, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1That's healthy and everything.
    • Dumbledorito, on 11/01/2007, -0/+9I've tried Red Bull and other similar drinks. Why do most of them taste like carbonated Nyquil?
      • thumperings, on 11/01/2007, -1/+2Yea they taste like snot. I don't get the energy drink buzz. I think it's a self esteem / can I be cool and marketed to please ...ploy.
      • sv650touring, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1that's so you hold your breath and slam it, so the buzz comes on sooner, and it seems like you are getting more caffeine than you actually are... which is way less than coffee
        • humage45, on 11/02/2007, -0/+0actually, one cup of normal coffee only has ~70mg of caffeine, whereas most energy drinks have about 250mg of caffeine.. unless your talking about expresso...
    • spyd3rweb, on 11/01/2007, -1/+8Its got electrolytes n *****...
    • humage45, on 11/02/2007, -0/+0same here.. I like the buzz of energy drinks better (not red bull though)
  • rdrysdale, on 11/05/2007, -4/+14I hear crack works just as well!
  • maybeinoregon, on 11/01/2007, -5/+7I don't think you have to abuse caffeine to be effected by it - it used to be regulated - back when cocaine wasn't - now it isn't and cocaine is - Just a latte a day can do it....it took me a couple of weeks to go from quad lattes to single, then no coffee in the morning - now I just drink it on the weekends - but I was shocked how much effort it took to curtail the craving - physically - headaches - vision - all were effected... which seems strange to me...because growing up there was always a pot of coffee on the stove - and people drank it like water - 24/7...
    • mrfunktastic, on 10/31/2007, -1/+5Let's break it down again for the folks who don't get effect -vs- affect....

      Effect = the result of some outside cause. "I felt the effect of the coffee."
      Effected = something caused an effect to something. "When I wrote my paper, I effected change in coffee production in Brazil."
      Affect = to cause a change. "The way I smell appears to affect women in a positive way."
      Affected = something caused change. "When I changed my cologne it affected the way Marie felt about me."

      I know, I know, this is a tricky one, but you get pro points when you get it right. Makes you smell good to women.
      • sv650touring, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1could you do one of these for "then" "should of" "there" "your", and then send it to every employee of the UNIVERSITY I work for, oh and maybe a how-to on "in lieu of" usage
  • zenoizen, on 11/01/2007, -7/+20There's nothing especially healthy about abstaining completely from caffeine. Too much is too much. But a couple cups a day won't hurt you. Anyone who drinks more than that might want to get screened for depression anyway.

    • DumbLittleMan, on 10/31/2007, -2/+5I am far from depressed. An introvert yes, but depressed no. I sleep for 3-5 hours each night and originally that was my reasoning for the coffee fix. When I stopped drinking it, I actually had more energy as the day went on..

      Note: I am not saying 3-5 hours of sleep is good for you.
      • zenoizen, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1Were you drinking a whole lot of coffee? Heavy coffee drinking is often a form of self medication for depression symptoms. Won't kill you to get a depression screening test.

        But I'll say it again, a couple of cups each day is not bad for the average person, and can actually have health benefits.
    • KMye, on 10/31/2007, -2/+23Moderate coffee drinking can actually be very beneficial. Coffee itself is loaded with anti-oxidants, and caffeine in reasonable doses is good for neural health.
    • vornan19, on 10/31/2007, -0/+8Moderation is the key to most things. Too much of anything will have a negative effect. Even if it's chocolate. So why is moderation so hard to adhere to? It's boring.
      • sv650touring, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1all things in moderation, especially moderation
  • riverrunner, on 11/01/2007, -1/+34jeeze next your gonna want me to give up alcohol and bacon.
    • silverchrysalis, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2no- just stop combining them. no one wants to be near you after one of those pork-butt martinis
    • jetskr8, on 11/01/2007, -0/+6You can pry my bacon from my cold, dead hands.
      • ahoyhoy, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1They'll be hard to touch once they break out the defibrillator.
      • sv650touring, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2several comments above I applied that to coffee, but I swear I wasn't copying you, I just love the expression. Other faves are "Money is no object." (perfect when asked if you would like to super size your value meal) and "I'll see you in Hell" (co-workers still don't know what to make of this one)
  • willscottsi, on 10/31/2007, -1/+4I haven't even gotten to step 1 yet. It's not a problem, it's not a problem, it's not a problem.
  • webcite1, on 11/01/2007, -2/+16Give up coffee????????? NEVER!!!!!!!
  • rdeal1, on 10/31/2007, -3/+8be careful... when you give up caffeine, weird stuff starts happening, headaches and things. i tried it once. also, you might actually go crazy... this dude went without caffeine for about 13 days...
    http://collegepork.com/node/382
    • TheTankengine, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1There is no way giving up caffeine alone would make anyone do that. He's obviously mentally retarded to begin with.
      That was one of the sweetest faceplants I've ever seen, though!
  • cryptomystic, on 10/31/2007, -0/+34Everything in moderation.

    that's the key.
  • ruddy, on 10/31/2007, -1/+5like thats gonna happen! why don't i give up pizza too while im at it
  • FishHammer, on 10/31/2007, -0/+10as someone suffering a massive caffeine-withdrawal headache this is probably something i should read
    • bellapria, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1I get massive caffeine headaches too. I was told once that if Caffeine were discovered in this generation it would be an illegal drug.....I'm glad it was discovered a long time ago
  • cmpshotty, on 10/31/2007, -4/+7I wouldn't want to give up caffeine completely. It has some very beneficial effects on the body along with coffee.
  • hoppdawg, on 10/31/2007, -1/+9Become Mormon?
  • wocheck, on 10/31/2007, -2/+8Starbucks people will bury this :D
  • leontes, on 10/31/2007, -1/+9It's been almost a year now (Dec 13) since I gave up caffeine, and the changes have been positive. I still sometimes get the odd cola craving, though.

    My sleep has been more regulated as is my gastrointestinal system.

    It's nice not to drink so much soda. I'm now trying to keep away from the high fructose corn syrup, but that stuff is in everything processed.
    • obliviousfool, on 10/31/2007, -1/+3I gave up caffeine for about 3 years. I still remember fondly the way I felt so balanced in that time. I'm going to get back there someday. Anyway, caffeine free Coke (I found) tastes nearly the same. It helped keeping those cravings at bay.
  • preban, on 10/31/2007, -9/+3Healthy my ass...Coffee and cigarettes are the two best stimulants in existence. Anybody who can't handle them are weak anyways. Probably keel over from tabasco.
    • engwar, on 10/31/2007, -4/+1Anyone who NEEDS TO RELY ON them are weak anyways.

      Fixed that for you.
      • zenoizen, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2Everyone relies on something. What's your crutch? Or do you sleep naked in the middle of a field and eat raw meat and plants that you find on the ground?
        • engwar, on 10/31/2007, -0/+0Sure, everyone has their vice. I've got plenty of them. That wasn't my point.

          To use your analogy, who's weaker the person who needs the crutch in order to walk or the person who doesn't use a crutch?

          I just get tired of people saying that a person is some sort of a wimp who doesn't drink caffeine.

          I know I'll get dugg down simply because more people are caffeine drinkers than not. But I believe my point still stands.

          I used to make a double cappuccino at home every day before going into work. After running out of coffee one week and realizing from the SERIOUS headaches that my body was physically addicted to caffeine I decided to give it up. I just don't like the idea of being physically addicted to any substance. Having a vice isn't a problem for me. Heck I brew my own beer. But if I had to give up alcohol my guess is that it would be easy to do, easier than giving up caffeine, as alcohol is not PHYSICALLY addictive.

  • KingGorilla, on 10/31/2007, -8/+1quoting wikipedia, not good
    • MrSlumberjack, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1Being a momo, not good.

      Let the people quote whoever they want, Hitler.
  • dupswapdrop, on 11/01/2007, -0/+20I just went straight to a couple of 16oz glasses of whiskey in the morning, now the day passes much faster.
  • BevansDesign, on 10/31/2007, -1/+15Giving up caffeine is easier said than done. About a month ago, I decided to stop drinking anything with caffeine OR corn syrup after at least a decade of heavy Mountain Dew consumption. I had massive headaches for a couple weeks, but they've mostly subsided now. It's amazing what'll happen when your body stops getting a chemical it's been getting in heavy doses for so long.

    And it's really hard to avoid. I still have about 2 or 3 bottles each week. When you cut caffeine and corn syrup out, you're basically left with water and milk, and expensive juices. Going healthy is expensive as hell.
    • floatingpoints, on 10/31/2007, -0/+4***** juices. Just stick with water... and tea.

      A box of 100 tea bags is what, $5?
      • sv650touring, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1hell, you can get one for free if you fall asleep in the living room
    • BinaryFragger, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1I'm trying to cut down on my caffeine and soda consumption too (I do not drink tea and coffee -- I don't like warm beverages), and you're right, the healthier stuff is more expensive. A 2-liter bottle of cola is 99 cents, and a 2-liter carton of 1% lactose-free milk is $5 (being lactose intolerant is hard on the wallet). Even a 2-liter of soy drink is about 4 bucks, as are many pure fruit juices.
      So screw that, I mainly drink water now. Tasteless but cheap. Plus, I feel better at the end of the day.
    • DeviateSeptum, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1Juice? What the ***** is juice? Give me the grape drink!
  • londubh, on 10/31/2007, -2/+21You can have my coffee mug when you pry it from shaking dead hand.
  • cash0utcurse, on 10/31/2007, -7/+5Who needs an article on how to do this? I didn't even click the link. I gave up caffeine. You know how? I stopped drinking it. WHAT A REVELATION!
  • BuckFush, on 10/31/2007, -4/+7Give up coffee???? No thanks.
  • silverchrysalis, on 10/31/2007, -2/+4when i was a teenager i took Anacin on a regular basis for chronic headaches. i didn't know it had caffeine, it was just what the rest of my family took. i would get awful mood swings in between huge bursts of creativity. one day i started trembling, then convulsing. it was terrifying and i thought i was going to swallow my tongue. after that day, for years i couldn't handle caffeine at all, but i have since slowly added it back into my diet, probably stupidly so. anything that can have that powerful of an effect on an otherwise healthy body is a tad scary.
    • sockpuppets, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2Sounds more like an allergic reaction to me. You sure you're not just allergic to aspirin?
    • mikecx, on 11/09/2007, -0/+2I wouldn't call chronic headaches particularly healthy. I personally would think sockpuppets is closer to what caused it. I've gone through a 12 pack of Mt. Dew in a 2 hour period before with no ill effects aside from a stomach ache. Nowadays, my consumptions is down to a can or two a day and I doubt i'll ever give it up, not because I lack the will but because I like caffeine.
  • trp642, on 11/01/2007, -2/+6Blasphemy!
  • akpotato, on 10/31/2007, -1/+6Rarely do I ever drink anything caffeinated, so when I do, I feel like a different person. My mind races, I can't concentrate on anything, I get really jittery and at the end of the day I can't sleep.
    Hell, if I drink tea, I can usually tell if it's caffeinated based on how it affects my body.
  • pendrachken, on 10/31/2007, -4/+6They can pry my coffee cup from my cold dead hand.
    • sockpuppets, on 10/31/2007, -1/+5Did all that caffeine make you miss the guy that said the same exact thing about 20 comments back?
  • KingBunny, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1I don't even like coffee... I guess I could start smoking or something. That'll be a fun challenge trying to quit.
    • zenoizen, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1Smoke heroin. Quitting that's a real challenge!
      • dmsean, on 10/31/2007, -0/+4according to the anti-smoking advertisment smoking is harder to quit. but when I quit smoking I didn't vomit or scream or roll around on the ground begging people for a hit....
    • Karmavs, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1What about Coke? It's caffeinated too

      (I personally hate soft drinks & coffee (but love Chai, which is often caffeinated anyway)
  • AgentKPB, on 10/31/2007, -1/+2http://men.webmd.com/features/coffee-new-health-fo ...
  • UtopiaInTheSky, on 10/31/2007, -1/+2But... Mountain Dew... But, but...
  • JQP123, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1I love coffee and I used to drink too much. Now it's one single cup in the morning ... just to get me going but that's it, no more for the rest of the day. It's what works best for me.
    • Tweekster, on 10/31/2007, -0/+0even a couple cups isnt unhealthy by any means. I am on the same routine as you. People make up stories and believe lies that coffee/caffiene is bad for you. It isnt
  • ZentraediElite, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2I've given up caffeine to the point that I only drink it in green teas. I like not having the headaches I used to have if I didn't drink my daily dose of Mountain Dew.
    • skinjester, on 10/31/2007, -1/+0another way to avoid those headaches may have been to continue drinking the Mountain Dew?
  • Books, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1So is tea just as bad as coffee? I have given up ALL pop/soda/coke drinks for like 7 months now and only drink water, tea and the rare cup of orange juice. Should I switch to decaff tea?
    • samdu, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1Caffeine is caffeine. Whether you get it from chocolate, coffee, or tea (or wherever). If you're that concerned about caffeine, then yeah, you need to ditch the tea as well.
      • ahoyhoy, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1There isn't really any caffeine in chocolate, it's just an urban legend
        • derek20cali, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2Some people are surprised to learn that chocolate is not high in caffeine. A typical 8-ounce glass of chocolate milk has the same amount of caffeine as a cup of decaffeinated coffee. A HERSHEY'S chocolate bar (1.55 ounce) contains about 10 mg of caffeine - slightly more than a cup of decaffeinated coffee, but much less than that found in regular coffee, tea, and some soft drinks. The small amount of caffeine in chocolate occurs naturally in cocoa beans.

          Source: http://www.hersheys.com/nutrition/caffeine.asp
      • Tweekster, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2except that caffeine isnt bad for you
    • zenoizen, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1There's nothing "bad" about any of it. Some of these people are just under this fallacious misunderstanding that just because something is a drug it should be avoided at all costs. But there is absolutely no evidence that caffeine is necessarily harmful.

      http://men.webmd.com/features/coffee-new-health-fo ...
    • musclemuse, on 10/31/2007, -0/+0Caffeine is one of those drugs that is pretty much harmless if you're not doing it the point of say, getting severe headaches, heart palpitations and shaking. It's insane that people would drink THAT much caffeine. Like anything, don't overdo it, or its just pointless and not beneficial.
      But yes, tea is "worse" as it contains more caffeine than coffee.
    • NapalmNewt, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1A cup of Tea has 1/3 the caffeine that a cup of normal coffee does. Tea is a good substitute for the caffeine bomb you get with a few cups of coffee. It's more filling and drinking 3 cups is equivalent to one cup of coffee.
  • offwithyourtv, on 10/31/2007, -2/+5You know what else has "the effect of temporarily warding off drowsiness and restoring alertness"? A nap. Does that mean a nap "messes with you" as well?

    Almost anything is bad in large doses, but having a cup of coffee in the morning is less dangerous than driving to work tired.
  • samdu, on 11/14/2007, -2/+13So no smokes, no coffee, next it'll be beer and liquor. So, exactly WHY is it I'm "living" this healthy life again? We only get one shot at this thing, might as well enjoy ourselves why we're here. Feh to the "health nazis."
    • ahoyhoy, on 10/31/2007, -2/+0Dugg for Goldman's law in effect
      • TheTankengine, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3Ugh, you mean Godwin's law.
        And it's really not. samdu referred to the term "health nazis" (in quotes and everything!) which has become a colloquialism for people who are over obsessed about health. He is not talking about actual Nazis or Hitler, therefore it is NOT Godwin's law.

        Please leave the Internet now.
    • musclemuse, on 10/31/2007, -0/+0I second that motion.
  • skinjester, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1but its my 2nd favorite alkaloid. why would I want to give it up? Producing it more efficiently and deliciously is a meaningful goal.
  • orbit1979, on 10/31/2007, -1/+4I tried to stop drinking for about 2 months. It was terrible. I felt tired and unmotivated all the time. Fed up, I began drinking coffee again, and ***** got done.
    • ahoyhoy, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1Same thing happened to me, except it was only for like 3 weeks. I found myself still crashing after lunch, but instead of drinking a soda or coffee, I take a nap; big time sink
  • N3M3515, on 10/31/2007, -0/+4Giving up coffee is going to be tough, its a good thing I still got the cocaine or I would be in trouble.
  • QuackMasterDan, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1Its not difficult to quit drinking caffeine, it just takes the will to do so. I used to drink on average 8 Mountain Dews per day. Once I discovered the depletion of my bone calcium via Phosphoric acid I quit cold turkey. Felt like crap for 3 days, and no longer drink soda.
    • zenoizen, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1What are you talking about? Phosphoric acid and caffeine are two entirely different molecules. You could have switched to coffee or tea. And there's not any conclusive science that phosphoric acid affects bone calcium. Stop spreading misinformation.

  • TheNik, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1I hope he stopped taking Excedrine or various other pain meds. Some of them have caffeine in them and I wouldn't want him lying to me! :D
  • bariswheel, on 10/31/2007, -2/+5Give up coffee? Are you ***** out of your mind? Get outta here!

    • mctwists, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2isnt it supposed to be good for u anyways?
  • DonCarcharo, on 10/31/2007, -1/+8I gave up caffeine just over a year ago. I was drinking 6+ cans of Pepsi per day plus one to two cups of coffee. I'd been doing that for years but as I got older I started getting heart palpitations. So instead of just slowing it down I opted to quit altogether.

    The first few weeks were miserable. I had headaches, I was tired and irritable. Heck one day I fell asleep at my desk. But after a few months I started feeling much better. I was less jittery, more relaxed, it was nice. And of course the palpitations vanished. Sure I don't have as much energy and I can't stay up until 3am anymore but I feel good.

    In fact just a few weeks ago I had my first sip of Pepsi in quite a long time (by mistake). I was amazed at how terrible it actually tastes. :)
    • lysdexic, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2Wow, we had drastically different experiences. (see comment below) I drank 5-7 sodas a day and I felt great by the end of the first week. Then again, I was drinking diet so I wasn't dropping all that sugar along with the caffeine.
  • lysdexic, on 10/31/2007, -0/+5The body detoxes from caffeine in a few days. The fifth night after I quit cold turkey, I slept deeper than I had in years. On day six, my energy level skyrocketed. Now I have something with caffeine in it three to four times a week, though never after 4pm if I have to wake up early in the morning, and it doesn't affect my sleep or energy level much at all.

    If you can replace whatever you're drinking with a decaffeinated alternative and make it through a few uncomfortable days, it's pretty much over.
    • spyd3rweb, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1just switch out for a non-caffienated brand it'll help trick you body into thinking its still getting pop or coffee
  • ucg1, on 10/31/2007, -7/+7Wow.. you gave of caffeine. You want a ***** cookie?
    • saltshaker2323, on 11/01/2007, -4/+4If you didn't like the article, bury it and be done with it. No one wants to read your douchebag comments.
      • Tweekster, on 10/31/2007, -1/+3I personally hate when people spread myth and lies. Coffee and caffine are not unhealthy no matter how much the dbag author pretends they are
      • ucg1, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1The real douchebag is the one who writes a whole article on giving up caffeine like its some difficult process. I gave up caffeine too, but I can sum it up in one sentence:

        Stop consuming caffeinated substances.
  • A242, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1I feel like I should quit. I have a problem with steadiness. When I try to be perfectly still, my hands or arms still sway ever so slightly.
  • xsquirrel378x, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1i didnt read this article either, i enjoy drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes i have no reason to quit either. it would only be 2 less things i have to look forward to throughout my day and theyre the only 2 things i look forward to when i wake up. :'(
    you guys like ***** up your liver and brains, i like ***** up my lungs and nervous system. its healthy to be a bit self-destructive for all of us
  • Jalh, on 10/31/2007, -3/+3i been drinking the world's strongest coffee and im healthy ........
  • schnikies79, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1I never understood why people like coffee. I'm not bashing it at all but I simply cannot handle the taste. Black, with-cream and sugar, without, whatever. It all taste like bile. I don't understand how something that smells so good can taste so bad.

    As far as caffeine goes, I stay away from it. It never did help me stay awake or perform any better, so why not just stay away? I don't feel like I'm missing anything.
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