How did you get over a caffiene addiction?

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Permalink Reply by april on June 24, 2008 at 12:33pm

I was BIIIIG on coffee for the longest time, and just sort of weened myself off by substituting different green tea's. Took me about 3 months to get off coffee completely.

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Permalink Reply by Joel on June 24, 2008 at 1:07pm

If you go cold turkey watch out for headaches, but I just heard that angstrom (calcium?) is great for those, and mega-hydration (spring water, mega hydrate spplemnt). How much coffee have you bee doing?

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Permalink Reply by Hil~raw~ry on June 24, 2008 at 1:08pm

I drink a cup of iced coffee a day - sometimes two(all year long). I do not like hot coffee (or any hot drink for that matter) at all.

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Permalink Reply by Joel on June 24, 2008 at 1:15pm

GOOD! You'll probably just ween off the iced ones, that's how I did it...

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Permalink Reply by RawZi on June 24, 2008 at 1:34pm

I recommend lots and lots of raw green juices everyday.

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Permalink Reply by Kendra on June 24, 2008 at 2:03pm

Hello! I weaned myself off coffee over a few weeks - for example, I went from a medium cup to a small cup (Dunkin Donuts) - after drinking only one small a day for about a week, I quit altogether. I did have headaches for about 4 days after that, but nothing since then.

I used to not be able to start my day without coffee - now I can't start my day without green smoothies! :)

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Permalink Reply by Hil~raw~ry on June 24, 2008 at 2:04pm

Oh, a girl from my neck of the woods;) DnD is the devil!

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Permalink Reply by Kendra on June 24, 2008 at 2:07pm

seriously - very evil!! There is an interesting blog from Sarma about DD - you should check it out. :)

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca Lynn on June 24, 2008 at 3:47pm

I actually got the flu and couldn't get up off of the couch to make any coffee for about 3 days. I was really sick... and my coffee addiction was really bad - but I just associated the sickness and headaches with the flu since every other part of mey body hurt anyways. I had been tryin to wean myself off so when I got better I just didn't drink it again after that.

I hope that you can find a better way though!!

Now I drink cacao, maca shakes in the morning and feel great!

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Permalink Reply by Clement on June 24, 2008 at 3:49pm

I didn't, I just ended up drinking coffee with almond milk and honey.

p.s. I don't think that I am addicted. Or am I?! Oh no! :P

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Permalink Reply by RawZi on June 24, 2008 at 4:10pm

Hi Clément,

Iced coffee, raw almond milk and unheated honey ever? Or regular?

- RZ

So many rawies do drink coffee. I wonder what the correlation is? I wonder if I'm one of the few that dislikes coffee. I won't rule out I'll ever use it as a one dose in years medicine, but otherwise I quite often actually dislike it. Maybe if it's cold and I can't smell it as much. Is it just very addictive? Or does it somehow combine well with much of raw foods? There must be more if we delved into it.

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Permalink Reply by docsharp on June 24, 2008 at 3:58pm

This might not be much help, but I just stop drinking it and avoided starbucks and the coffee machines at work. I had the worst headache though and didn't know that giving up coffee would do that to me, so maybe whining myself off gradually would have been better.

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