Reduce or Eliminate Coffee and Caffiene Intake Without the Headaches

Caffeine is most commonly associated with coffee, but can be found in tea, chocolate, and even pain or other medications. If you want to reduce or even eliminate your caffeine intake, you can easily do it without the headaches. If you drink a lot of coffee, this can take a while, but at least the process is relatively easy to do.

Even if you drink just one or two cups of coffee a day, you are still most likely addicted. Caffeine is great in small doses, as long as you don't overdo it.

It keeps you awake and alert. It can help you concentrate and focus. But too much, and it can cause a ton of problems, both health wise and mental.

Too much caffeine, and you can have heart problems, such as irregular heartbeat, or palpitations. You can also suffer from nausea, stomach, and intestinal and digestion issues. Too much can cause irritability, jitteriness, insomnia, restlessness, tremors, and anxiety.

Cutting down or eliminating coffee, and caffeine, is a good idea if you think it is causing these problems for you. If you drink more than a few cups a day, it probably is.

But cutting caffeine out suddenly can cause other problems that can be very unpleasant. You can suffer from sometimes debilitating headaches, nausea, even vomiting if you try to cut it out of your system too quickly.

The way to reduce your caffeine intake then is to do it slowly. As slowly as you need to. First, take a few days to figure out how much caffeine you consume on a daily basis. When your ready, start to eliminate one cup every few days or so, until you are down to just a cup or two, or you've eliminated the coffee altogether. Two or three days is slow enough that your body will barely notice the missing caffeine, and you will reduce any headaches that might crop up if you tried stopping it altogether.