What I Learned from Quitting Coffee After 15 Years of Daily Consumption

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> I may just have been lucky or it might have helped that I still drink tea with caffeine

He was surprised that you don't get caffeine cravings if you continue to take in caffeine.

> Maybe I expected it to be much more difficult based on my own experience with giving up smoking about nine years ago.

Maybe its because he didn't take up smokeless nicotine products, like snuff or chewing tobacco!

The author talks of feeling like an addict for drinking coffee, but now that he gets caffeine from tea, he can truly conquer the world.

That's not unlike a wino taking up beer for a couple weeks... eventually it sinks in that all that changed is the flavour.

From me, this article hears the sound of no hands clapping.

It is seriously irrational to quit coffee since it is associated with a significant reduction in mortality. This has been valifated by multiple meta-analyses. Of course you don't want to drink so much that it harms your sleep.

He also considers drinking less milk to be a plus, even though, by his own words, he's still taking in the same amount of milk. His math doesn't check out, unless "splash" and "little splash" consist of radically different volumes.

> ...huge mugs of coffee with a splash of milk.

> I still have milk in my breakfast muesli and a little splash in my teas, but that’s it.

(and a whopping 2 weeks in)

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