drink a little caffeine, take the over the counter analgeesick of your choice (something easy on your stomach if you can't take aspirin, etc)
if you think you won't have a meltdown before work is over.
in case of meltdown reaction
i don't know
are you atomic?

huh. I've been sick, too, and not drinking coffee... maybe that's why I have this nonstop headache.

No. What are you, some kind of communist? coffee and cigarettes keep you regular, clear up acne and make you irrestible to the sex of your choice.

Now stop with the nutsy talk, lady.

thanks for living proof, mack jonny
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I gave up coffee for tea in 1992 (I also quit smoking for a year and a half.) I slept better. The occasional cup tastes really good. Coffee and chocolate are two of the most complex flavors around, that's why the artificial flavors taste like ass.

It can help prevent Alzheimer's. I try to drink more diet Mt. Dew now because I hate coffee.

that should be a slogan with the Ad Honesty Council:
"--admitting it taste like ass, comparatively."

I gave up coffee about 3 years ago, and still can't believe how much better life is without it. I never have those ups and downs, never feel tired, never feel like I need a jolt, never get those jitters...damn I hated those. The taste was great, and I still love the smell, and I like making it. Thanks to bonehead's advice in another thread, my husband was gifted with a french press coffee maker this past Christmas, and I really like making his coffee for him. But I'll never drink it again.

Selfnoise might be able to recommend some really bold teas for you. Funny, they both have caffeine (some teas don't but the ones I like do...) but they affect the system in different ways. I'm not a lover of pansy-ass herbal teas either.

I cut my coffee drinking back to "social cups" (never drink alone!) I also don't drink it past 4pm or so. Advantages are better sleep and no withdrawal headaches. Disadvantages are...less coffee -- it's so good!

oh, man, diet dew isn't worth the vitamin pee it resembles
comparatively

thanks for living proof, mack jonny

you're welcome.

*walks off to harem toilet*

Favorite coffee story: I went to Brussells for a conference in 1990. Arrived all jet lagged. Went looking for a pension. Ended up in Gran Place (or whatever the biq square is called) in early evening. Sat down in outdoor cafe and ordered coffee with cream (not knowing what I would get... but not wanting black expresso.) Voila! Coffee with whipped cream arrived. With a chocolate on the saucer! I knew instantly I had arrived in civilization. All coffee in Brussells is served with a chocolate. They know how to do things right.

I continued wandering until I found a pension right across the street from the famous fountain of the boy pissing. Damn, that's a nice town. Even the pickpockets are beautiful and charming.

Wasn't there a recent study that showed some health benefits to coffee? It was good for the liver or something? My husband gave up coffee for a bit last year, but he was drinking ridiculous amounts. He's back on the stuff in moderation.

Is selfnoise a tea expert? I got a tea pot and some loose teas for Christmas and I'm hooked. I would totally dig some recommendations for good places to shop and good teas to drink.

ethylene, I'm over the bug now, back to normal except that I've not had a coffee since Sunday.

I really, really miss, on the days I'm working from home, that first cuppa joe (made with a Swissgold one-cup filter) as I read my favourite websites ...

you could cultivate "tea mind"
basically, the slow lower dosage of caffeine combined with the antioxidant properties has an entirely different effect that the superbuzz of someone without someone who has deveoped a tolerance for caffeine.

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I drink both coffee and tea in moderation. I've found the trick is to wean yourself from the caffeine addiction, then try to avoid drinking coffee as fuel. Drink it as a wonderful-tasting beverage. I drink decaf on the weekends and it's nice.

I find that I can get plenty of caffeine from a strongly-brewed black tea, but then I was never one of those 6-cups-a-day people to begin with. The main problem with tea is that it really doesn't taste or feel anything like coffee in the morning. It has a really nice calming, paring-down influence, but it doesn't have that smack-you-until-you're-awake-dammit influence.

My coffee-replacement teas: Lapsang / Russian Caravan, Country Yunnan or similar strong black chinese tea, real spiced Chai with milk, Earl Grey.

jrossi4r - Shit, I am totally not a tea expert. Iconomy is setting me up for a fall here. :) I do like tea a lot, though.

warbaby - I had a very similar experience in Quebec City. I don't think we Americans treat coffee right.

jrossi, everyone is different and the chemical composition of coffee (not only as the highest caffeine beverage not tinkered with by advanced chemistry) is not for everyone.
me, it's great sometimes but i compensate.
it drains your antioxidants right along with nicotine and they are best buddies, chemically.

i have a perfect equilateral triangle of zit formation right now because of the mens and me not being as good at watching the sleep and nutrition.

pedantic girl is tired

the pot a day people use something like at least 80 person of the coffee produced if not more.

Entirely too much quitting going on, stick it out, what would Walther Matthau say?

I find w/o the smoking that my urge to drink coffee has gone down from about 3 or 4 cups a day to just the one.

Can you have just one a day essexjan?

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NO! I read this week that the morning cup can reduce breast cancer in some women. So, you got that going for you.

My new Senseo arrived last night and I've yet to try it out but I made sweet love to it on my sofa (where I slept last night).

I'm going to find the tea thread from a few months ago - one of my favorite threads here. I did have it bookmarked, or so I thought.

Also, caffeine doesn't effect my sleep at all.

Never has. Except for the coffee my roommate in college would make from her fancy coffee maker in a method she learned from her sister in Madrid. That stuff was lethal.

Still, I could drink a few cups right before bed and still sleep like a baby.

Can you have just one a day essexjan?

I wish. I'm an all-or-nothing person.

Then I say ALL.

caffeine is good for headaches.
that's why some "aspirin" has caffeine
vasodillation and such

I am veering towards the ALL camp right now.

DRINGGGGGGG IDDDDDDDDDD!

One Tea

Two Tea

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I love coffee, I love tea
I love the Java Jive and it loves me.


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I'm saved from my own wavering right now because I'm at work and the coffee from the machine is mud (tastes slightly better than ass, I'm told). But when I leave here, I'm going to Canary Wharf, where there's a Starbucks, Caffe Nero, Coffee Republic, etc. on every corner ...

The eventual upshot of my askme question (which indirectly spawned the 2nd tea thread) was that I bought these Japanese make-your-own empty teabags from an importer in the public market, and they've been a huge help. It's SOOO much easier to brew a single cup from loose-leaf tea now.

I'm screwed. My Jamaican line manager has just promised to bring me in a bag of Blue Mountain, grown by his dad on the family farm in Jamaica ...

Oh well ... I may as well give in to the craving. I don't smoke, don't drink (any more) and coffee is my worst vice. How bad is that?

I love coffee.

I really can't imagine life without it. I drink close to a pot a day during the week. But I work in IT. And the coffee at work - even though it's one of those nifty single serving autobrew machines, is pretty terrible. The preground coffee still comes in foil packets. At least it's not instant or sitting there burning all day.

But I don't suffer from caffiene withdrawals when I don't have it. I don't get jitters, unless it's intentional, recreational megadosing. If I don't have good, real coffee I'll usually just go without. I did go through a period of drinking Nescafe Classico instant coffee when I didn't have a coffee pot at home.

The reasons I drink it are flavor, fuel, and ritual, in that order.

I like how good coffee tastes. People who put cream and sugar in their coffee are heretics who don't deserve good coffee. I own two vacuum carafes - as soon as my coffee is brewed, into the carafe it goes. I bring a carafe of it to work. I never wash out my coffee brewer's basket - something I'm told that pro chefs sometimes do. (It was just intuitive to me. I think I tried cleaning my pot once and it just took forever to get rid of hints of vinegar, and forever to re-achieve taste equilibrium.)

I really, really love the flavor of a good, freshly brewed pot of coffee - especially with a chunk of good chocolate. Oh... Oh that taste is so good. That and an occasional tasty beer and the occasional tasty bowl is all I need for whatever mild depression symptoms I have.

I don't know about the health risks, really. I think kidney stones are about the worst I'm at risk for. The health benefits for me are nice - antioxidants, antidepressant, anti colon cancer, peace of mind through ritual.

I try to makes sure I drink enough water, and I only rarely drink soda these days. I used to be a huge Mountain Dew fan. Then I read about all the dyes and bromides and stuff in Mountain Dew and dropped that junk. Soda makes me feel like utter crap. Too much high fructose corn syrup and sugar and ick.

So, uh. Quit if you think you have a problem with it and it's making you feel like crap. It'll leave more for me in the looming coffee shortage.

I quit coffee a couple years ago, in part because I was getting bad heartburn from it. I'm back on the stuff, but I don't need nearly as much as I used to. In fact, I drink decaf primarily now, and it does the same for me that regular used to but without the heartburn (so far).

And to all those haters who say "what's the point of decaf?" I'll point out that there's still some caffeine in decaf, just not as much, and it tastes pretty much the same -- especially if you get the good stuff. I'm not drinking Sanka, I've got Cafe du Monde.

I can spot a jonmc comment before I even get to the signature line.

come to Jamaica

because if i had the blue mountain around
i'd save it for when i appreciated a really good cup of coffee.

Thank you for finding those tea threads for me! Lots of good info. I think I need to brew a pot right now.

warbaby, you just made me miss Belgium so much. It's my favorite European country by a lot.

Oh, and quit coffee? LOL!