I’m addicted to coffee. I’ve tried quitting but couldn’t.
I was doing ok on ½ teaspoon a day of instant. But recently I’ve been having more and really notice that my functioning has taken a hit.
Back to ½ a teaspoon for me from tomorrow.
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I am having coffee now. I can not start my day without coffee. I am too addicted to coffee. I really drink a lot of coffee. My functioning is better after having coffee. We are so unique.
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Yeah I think I’m becoming habitually addicted
Haven’t noticed cognitive decline from it
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Coffee sometimes makes me tired. Sometimes it perks me up. There’s no logic.
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As the self proclaimed Coffee Monster of the forum:
I over many many years … stumbled backwards into the logic, that:
two cups are helpful, and everything after that is “marginal returns” at best (on the positive side), but increased jitters on the negative side.
Is it the jitters tho?
Or the tiredness of the comedown?
Both?
It never seems to interfere with you’re style here so you should know that and feel good as you try to tweak something that works for you.
I still have trouble believing that abstinence for you is the way if you like cafes, the taste, etc.
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I am fueled by two pots of coffee a day…one in the morning that I share with my wife and one at night I drink by myself…I think it could be a mind game…I can’t see how a full teaspoon of instant coffee would affect you but I’ll take your word for it.
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I believe you. Been struggling on coffee before myself. Even a little was enough to make my psyche bad. Then a couple of years ago I developed a serious ulcer so now I can’t drink coffee if I want to live. Coffee is very acidic. Green tea is my game now. It’s alkaline.
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Me too. I quit. Restarted. Quit. Restarted. Quit. Restarted. 
Now I went back to about 2 cups a day. But if I’m working in the coffee bar…it’s more. I do notice a lot of difference when I drink too much coffee.
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I need my coffee in the morning. It helps wake me up.
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Maybe try switching to tea?
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Sometimes I drink coffee and it knocks me out, you would think it would have the opposite effect.
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I drink far more coffee than that. It doesn’t help me. When I was at college I discovered that if I kept my caffeine consumption very low (for me) I was much better at math. One time I had a solid “A” going in algebra II, but I drank a bunch of coffee trying to stay awake while I was studying, and all that coffee ruined my ability to concentrate on algebra. I bombed the test the next day, but I got a solid “B” in the course.
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Your body builds up tolerance for stimulants pretty quickly. One time I told this girl how high I had gotten taking 10 “white crosses”. She said, “I can’t even remember when that many white crosses would get me high.”
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I don’t know if that little of instant coffee would have any detrimental effect. 2 teaspoons of it has approximately 63 mg of caffeine so 1 tsp is 31.5 mg? That’s a fairly low amount.
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Tea lover here!
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When I was seven I drank a cola in the evening about an hour or two before I went to bed, and I’ve had insomnia ever since. A lot depends on your biochemistry. Some people are more sensitive to a stimulant like caffeine than others. Do what you think is right for you.
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I drink a lot of coffee. Especially those Nescafe flavoured sachets. Also 2 x 1 litre cartons of iced coffee,and the occasional cafetière coffee a week. I’m a fast caffeine metaboliser. Although I don’t dislike tea, I much prefer coffee. Hence I’ve only had about 4-5 mugs of tea in the last 5.5 years.
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Yes, that’s the issue, I’m a slow metaboliser of caffeine.
If increasing adenosine improves symptoms then you’d think blocking it has the opposite effect
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