Thread: I've kicked caffeine.......again.

My quick story:

My first foray into steady coffee drinking started in 1990 when working as a waiter and gulping the stuff during the morning shifts to chase hangovers (I was 20 at the time) and always with cream. I was co-owner of a small coffeehouse a few years later for a few years and hooked a tube from our Rancilio 3 group semi-auto to my veins with all the espresso drinks I could drink. For home consumption, I roasted and ground my own beans and had a Rancilio PID'd Silvia and a Macap M4 stepless grinder both of which I sold a few years back to use the money for a new hobby..........razors. Since then, it's been the french press. 8-9 measures of a 2 Tablespoon measuring spoon/16-18 tsp of grounds used per day. I quit for a few years some time back but a nice double cap on a vacation got me sliding back into it.

Why did I quit again? Sure caffeine isn't an opiate or nicoteine but I always have the following problems with it:

• The skull wrenching headaches if I didn't regulate my caffeine intake. I would generally drink more on the weekends since I didn't drink crap office coffee and then have troubles on Mondays or when I'd travel for business involving all day car travel and waking up at 4 am, I'd sometimes have to down a lot of coffee and have a rebound headache the next day or two.
• Coffee never made me jittery. I've always been able to drink most any volume of coffee right before bed and sleep just fine. In fact...
• Aside from a "lift" that would last about 30 minutes, coffee would make me MORE tired not less. This would lead to a continuous battle since the remedy my brain seemed to suggest was to drink more coffee!

So, I guess at this point, I'm completely clean.

Chris L

Congrats my good sir. I experience caffeine in a similar way, and have drastically reduced my intake due to those skull wrenching headaches.

Originally Posted by ChrisL

My quick story:
For home consumption, I roasted and ground my own beans and had a Rancilio PID'd Silvia and a Macap M4 stepless grinder both of which I sold a few years back to use the money for a new hobby..........razors.
Chris L

Wow.... for a brief moment, you were struck by complete sanity........ too bad it didn't last.


Regards

Kaptain "Life is too short to drink bad coffee... there's plenty of time to sleep after your dead." Zero

Still.... I would have traded a few razors for that coffee setup you had......

Originally Posted by kaptain_zero

Wow.... for a brief moment, you were struck by complete sanity........ too bad it didn't last.


Regards

Kaptain "Life is too short to drink bad coffee... there's plenty of time to sleep after your dead." Zero

Still.... I would have traded a few razors for that coffee setup you had......

Hey hey, the Kaptain is baaackk! Good to see you back, Christian.

Chris L

Originally Posted by ChrisL

Hey hey, the Kaptain is baaackk! Good to see you back, Christian.

Chris L

+1 ! Glad to see you back Kaptain !!

Chris, I've gone on and of with the coffee. Right now I'm on but limiting myself to a pot in the morning. If it weren't for the caffeine and the nicotine I'd be drug free. Good luck with staying off of it.

Welcome back Kaptain!!
Good luck Chris!!