I can sleep much better as you already know and I can wake up in the morning without too much trouble as well

if I go to sleep late and wake up about 3 or 4 hours later, I feel very sleepy of course, but I don’t feel like the entire world is coming down on me anymore

I have noticed that some other things have changed in my personality as well, I don’t feel so nervous anymore when having presentations at school or any other places, I also don’t get so mad at little things that used to piss me off a lot before

about how to quit coffee, it is actually very hard if you don’t have an strategy… what you have to be conscious about is that caffeine is a drug, a very addictive one, and you should treat it as such

for my case I started by replacing cola, coffee, etc… for other stuff I liked to drink as well like orange juice and water… it’s actually a bit expensive though, because the price of cola and coffee is way much cheaper than mineral water or natural juices (at least here is that way)

the part that is probably a bit hard is when you start feeling that you need coffee, the withdrawal effects… you start feeling like you cannot think at all, that you are just too sleepy, sometimes with terrible headaches etc…

at those times, what I did was fill a huge bottle of water and put it next to me in my desk… and every time I felt like drinking cola or coffee I would instead drink a lot from the water bottle until I felt I didn’t want to drink anything anymore

I just didn’t write about it because that’s about the same kind of advice that you can get everywhere, and most likely all readers have already tried it, just like I did before trying all the steps listed in this article

before actually doing these experiments, I was also trying to sleep at the same time every night and for about 8-9 hours (sometimes even more than that) and still felt like dead in the morning

I hate to go to bed early…but it’s probably best for me. As the article suggests, I think there are many factors, and caffeine and # of hours of sleep are probably the biggest and more important factors.

Caffeine is, simply stated, a plague and a savior. I think that if you could divide my life into shades of light and dark (with light representing all that is good and dark representing all that is bad), you would find that I’m consuming or effected by caffeine in the light areas.

I entirely believe that caffeine effects us more profoundly than we think, and I think that chronic coffee drinking can be detrimental to your life, perhaps not even so much in terms of physical health, but in terms of behavior. It is amazing how terrible you can feel when un-caffeinated. Fernando said it – you feel like total shit, even when you KNOW that these feelings are false. Depression, excessive anxiety, low self-esteem, low sense of self-worth, low confidence, I have experienced all of these and more. Of course, I’m not suggesting that everyone who drinks caffeine-related drinks reacts the same way.

I’m a fairly heavy coffee drinker – I drink probably the equivalent of 3-4 cups a day. This is of course near the recommended limit, but I am actually very small, so it is probably almost twice the amount for me.

Regardless of this personal assessment, I think we really do need be more careful about our caffeine intake. Right now, I feel like I’m in a deadly cycle that is fairly out of control; one that I can’t really quit until at least the end of the term. And quitting, as I’ve tried it before, is very hard.

Caffeine Blues (http://www.amazon.ca/Caffeine-Blues-Hidden-Dangers-Americas/dp/0446673919) deals with this topic and one perspective on the book is here: http://www.relfe.com/caffeine.html. I suggest taking a look at the second link if you are at all concerned about our caffeine intake; it will probably turn you off caffeine. I have been there but I have been unable to quit, because I’m in university, and I continually (at least at certain times) need to rely on my ability to concentrate.

I sometimes wonder if life will be better without caffeine. I find that I usually don’t “wake up” even while using caffeine until later in the day. In other words, my days start out utterly horrible, and slowly begin to get better, until around the afternoon leading into the evening, where I feel elated and I feel like I can solve all the problems in the world, and I feel like I’m so happy where my life is going. But then, the next day, the whole morning is shot, because I feel like total shit, and I feel no motivation to do ANYTHING. I am utterly unproductive in the mornings, and it actually sets me back on my life journey.

I would ask Fernando: Is life really better without tea/caffeine? What is it like? How would you compare a typical day from your past (under the influence of caffeine) with a typical day today? How did you quit? I’d love to know, because I’m too young to feel this much like shit, and I hope to fix this problem in my life. My life is entirely not bad. I have made great accomplishments, I’m on a solid path, and I dream of so much more, but I feel that is somewhat in jeopardy; I feel like I’m running the risk of living a mediocre life as opposed to really putting 100% into something and loving it, living it, and growing. I want that life, but I feel like caffeine sabotages my efforts every day. (How can you give your all when you have brief moments of giving 150%, but most of the time you’re drifting down around 50%? )

I don’t even want to get into my relationships with other people. People, I’m sure, have wondered why I’m so pathetic (I would call myself pathetic in these times, they would probably just think I’m being plain). People know I have good qualities, but they must also wonder why sometimes I’m so flaky. I don’t blame them. If I were to pry even deeper into the psyche, I might find that my perception of what people think of ME may be tainted too: perhaps people don’t think negatively of me at all, perhaps it’s just a result of my shitty mood, due to (likely) caffeine.

I’ve always been one to believe people are 100% accountable for their actions, and I believe that still. I believe that my bad habits are killing me and are within my control, but the question is: Is life better without caffeine?

Any answers, anyone?

i.e. if you get 6hrs for 2 days you need to make up about 4 hours.

“The situation continued even after I quit working at that hellhole.”
Sleep debt.

In this entire article, you don’t mention your sleep habits, and you disregarding them? Or do you actually get a good amount of sleep?