I totally know where you're coming from. It doesn't seem that big of a deal to most people, but it is. Too much caffeine can be really dangerous, it has negative short term and long tern effects.
Like you, my body craves that burst of energy. But for me, it's not coffee but energy drinks. Sometime I know I shouldn't drink one, but I end up doing it anyway. Other times, I don't even think about it.

Good to hear from you! So, even though there are only 2 of us at this point, do you want to band together to help one another? I've tried staying off the stuff on my own and haven't been successful that way. Need to try something different.

Yeah we definitely should try to help each other out. We need to get as many people to join this group as possible. Maybe there's someone out there who knows a way to stop it.

Okay. There are some coffee substitutes that might consider adding a link to the group on their website. I'll write them. Where else would someone trying to get off caffeine go to look for a group? Do you have any ideas?

Meantime, I'm going cold turkey tomorrow. Shouldn't be too bad because I've only been drinking for a week this time. If past experience is any guide, I'll have a headache for about half the day.

Let me know how this is going/went.

Hi Mas, I put notes on the facebook page of one of those sites (that was all they would allow). I also found a bunch of people on this site who had written a goal of getting off caffeine and wrote notes to them. No one has responded. So I gave up.

HOWEVER, I didn't give up on getting off coffee and I think I've solved the problem. There's an amino acid, tyrosine, that gives your body what it needs to make the neurotransmitters you really are craving when you crave coffee. It has had a dramatic effect on me and my life. I feel much more energetic, better able to focus, and more outgoing, too. If you want to try it, get a copy of "The Mood Cure" by Julia Ross. She tells how to use it, which is important. (For instance, you need to take it on an empty stomach, and taking it under the tongue--sublingually--can make it get to your brain where its needed much quicker.) You need to make sure you don't take too much of it, because taking too much can actuallly cause decreases in the neurotransmitters you're trying to increase. Get the book. It'll change your life. You can get in on Amazon or possibly in your local bookstore.

Good luck!

well you're lucky then because I'm not just in a position where I drink multiple cups every day, I'm in a place where if I don't consume any caffeine in the morning, I'm cranky and zoning out and dozing off all day regardless of the amount of sleep I've had, not to the mention the headaches! :)

I totally understand each of you. I am addicted to caffeine too. All of my caffeine intake comes pop/soda. It has affected my weight so much. I use to weigh 125 and now I am close to 200. I am so upset about it and I have tried to cut caffeine out of my diet, but each time I horrible headaches. I just think about it and gotta get me a soda......its sooo aggrevatin

So glad to have found this group. I have been researching about amino acids and addiction as well. Thanks for the recommendation on the book. I have stopped and started caffeine in the past, I am trying to get off it again. It is terrible. It is like crack for me. Tomorrow will be day one wish me luck. I am goin to get that book. Thank you.

It's a serious problem for me.

With my particular psychological makeup, it fuels the other addiction that I am fighting, that is, pornography addiction. Sounds like I'm making excuses, but in that other addiction I can have even a month or more of freedom from it, then I'm right back down in the mud again.

Apparently, my total dependence on caffeine eventually puts me in a hyper-stimulated, nervous state that lets me lose control, and do exactly what I said I would stop doing.

For me, it might as well be alcohol or crack. Yes, I tried tapering, etc, to no avail