Quitting coffee

[Phoenix]

I had a real, real problem with caffeine back in the day; and what you say is interesting about creating dependence at an early age because I used to get tea in my bottles.

After I became a diabetic I used to drink diet coke, and sometimes it would be a 2 litre bottle a day. I used to stay awake because of this sort of habit.

Eventually I got off caffeine with Reiki. I went to one session and didn't drink it again. Another thing I used to sort of repetitively myself against it was by reading about how bad it is. I read the book 'Caffeine blues' by Stephen Cherniske. Apparently, the reason caffeine give you headaches is that when you use it, it stops 30% of the blood going to your brain. Therefore, when you stop it, the blood starts rushing up there again.

I think alcohol can be a savage addiction precisely because of it's social acceptableness, people are simply not given feedback if alcohol is becoming a social problem. Although alcohol mostly becomes a problem when people start drinking alone, and when they start hiding it.

I'm quitting caffeine right now. I've been falling asleep almost any time I sit down. I feel like an old man.

Ha ha.