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The aroma of freshly roasted and delivered overnight pure kona coffee invigorates and tantalizes your senses. The first sips of your morning coffee hang in your breath and lingers until the caffeine rush overwhelms you. This is the everyday ritual of ultimate sensory enjoyment that only a gourmet coffee connoisseur appreciates.

So if your relationship with your beloved coffee spring more from a need to keep you awake and feel alive, and that you have no special preferences on any specific coffee brands, you are obviously not a coffee connoisseur and do not need to order your coffee beans direct from the roasters.

When the Gourmet coffee connoisseur orders his coffee bean direct for the roasters, great benefits abound. You are guaranteed freshness for overnight delivery and never miss a beat on promptness. As a regular client to coffee bean direct roasters, they are more willing to give better prices, especially when he buys by bulk, that is, at whole sale pricing thus giving him better value for money.

Some people simply enjoy the overwhelming coffee bean aroma which appeals to the senses and prefer to buy their coffee beans direct personally. The true blue coffee connoisseur will never buy their coffee off the shelf at any supermarket since the coffee could have been ground for months and lost its freshness.

For the less picky coffee drinkers like myself, I would give one week as my personal stamp on freshness. As coffee drinking is a very personal affair to say the least, the degree of freshness depends on how your sense of taste gauges it.

Amongst the many benefits the Coffee Connoisseur gets are quality and freshness by the fact that you get your coffee beans direct, prompt service, great value for money pricing, and wide selection. But if you simply hope to smell the coffee in the morning as a wake up clock, I am sorry to say that you probably are not a coffee connoisseur just yet.

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If I can give up coffee, anyone can, including you! I was totally addicted. I LOVED coffee and the caffeine rush! I drank coffee all day, everyday. I depended on it for motivation, creativity, and problem solving.

Without coffee, I became depressed, lethargic, and anxious. I would go into a panic if I couldn’t get some coffee before an important event like giving a speech, taking an exam, or leading a meeting.

It took countless attempts before I figured out how to give up coffee. Between each try, I learned a little bit more about how to quit coffee. Eventually the information and experience accumulated into a formula that proved successful. Armed with this formula I found it rather easy to give up coffee. Here’s how I did it.

Caffeine Addiction Knowledge

The first step is to learn about what you are dealing with in terms of caffeine’s addictive properties and the likely withdrawal symptoms.

Caffeine is a drug. The human body actually becomes physically addicted to it. That’s why you feel good when you get your first cup of coffee in the morning and it’s why you feel bad when you try to give it up. The pleasure that you feel when you drink your first cup comes from satisfying the caffeine cravings produced by your body’s initial withdrawal symptoms. This happens because your body wasn’t getting its periodic fix of caffeine for 6-8 hours while you slept.

The pleasures you feel are not the fulfillment of those comforting storylines that you see in coffee commercials and print ads. The pleasure is your body’s relief response to getting the caffeine that it needs to function normally!

Withdrawal symptoms from caffeine include anxiety, nausea, lethargy, muscle tension, headache, constipation, and inability to think clearly. The inability to think clearly is also one of the disadvantages to drinking too much coffee.

There is a host of emotional addictions to the caffeine high as well. Some of them include the belief that with the caffeine stimulation you will perform better and have more confidence. The rush certainly provides that illusion, but the rush is brief and when it’s gone you get the opposite effect.

In order to give up coffee successfully, it’s important to understand what your body and emotions will go through for a few days during withdrawal. The intensity of the withdrawal depends on many factors including your daily intake amount, how long you’ve been drinking coffee, and your age.

As with most drugs, physical withdrawal lasts about 3-7 days. Symptoms are the most intense at the beginning and then they taper off significantly. Psychological withdrawal lasts about 30-90 days. Symptoms are the most intense during the first 21 days and then they are sporadic and progressively easier to handle in the weeks and months that follow. These durations vary depending on the individual.

If you understand ahead of time how you’re going to feel for a few days after you give up coffee, you can prepare yourself emotionally and arrange your schedule if need be. This does not mean that you should focus on the withdrawal symptoms, however. In fact, you should focus on anything else but the subject of coffee. Selecting issues and activities to concentrate on during this period is a crucial part of preparation.

Disadvantages and Advantages to Giving Up Coffee

If you consider just the withdrawal symptoms, it would be hard to see any advantages to drinking coffee. I know that there are proponents who talk about the so-called benefits of coffee. I wonder who’s distributing this information… the coffee companies?

Although coffee is not anywhere near as bad for you as cigarettes, I find it interesting how the brainwashing methods are similar. After you’ve seen or listened to thousands of coffee commercials over dozens of years you can understand how you associate the good life and pleasure with drinking coffee. These are that same tactics cigarette companies used during the early to mid 20th century to get millions of people to use their product.

Coffee and cigarettes are two of the greatest products ever conceived. Why? Because they are both highly additive! Your eventual physical need (withdrawal symptoms) forces you to buy their product on a continual basis. How much different is that from a person on the street corner who sells crack cocaine or methamphetamine? Is this discussion making you angry? I hope so. Use it as one of your motivations to give up coffee, and cigarettes too!

I was motivated to give up coffee because of the physical and emotional seesaw I experienced throughout the day and the difficulty I had sleeping at night. The reason that it’s difficult to sleep at night — assuming the you don’t drink coffee too late in the evening — is that your body is in the beginning stages of withdrawal.

I grew tired of relying on a drug for my motivation, enthusiasm, and energy. Coffee’s promise of providing energy is a crock! You’ll find out when you quit that it actually takes it away!

I also wanted to give up coffee in order to improve my appearance. Coffee stained my teeth and made my face look drawn and tired.

My number one reason for giving up coffee was my determination not to be controlled through addiction or brainwashing to use a drug that did me no good.

Come up with you own list of reasons for giving up coffee. This doesn’t have to be a complicated task. Just jot down the most powerful reasons for you to give up coffee. Keep this list handy, as you may need to refer to it during the first few days after quitting.

Gradual Reduction, Then Replace with Green or Herbal Tea

You can give up coffee cold turkey, but why put yourself through that unless you need an unpleasant experience to refer to later to bolster your resolve.

To ease yourself off caffeine, I would recommend that you do it in these two steps.

1. Gradually reduce the amount of coffee you drink based on a predetermined schedule. Let’s say you normally drink 5 cups of coffee a day. Over a one week period, cut out one cup per day so that by the sixth day you’re at zero.
2. On your first day without coffee, which would be the sixth if you follow step 1, replace the habit and preparation ritual with green or non-caffeinated herbal tea. Green tea has the lowest amount of caffeine of most teas, but don’t expect any similar coffee rush – it will be very mild.

Your best choice is non-caffeinated herbal tea. But if you need a little transitional assistance, as I did, drink green tea for few days and then non-caffeinated herbal tea for a few days after that.

Sneak Away From the Addiction and Habit

During the first couple of weeks, and especially during the first few days, you may get messages from your physical and psychological body that screams, “I want some caffeine!” What it wants is the rush! It wants the pleasure of satisfying the cravings! Your mind may come up with some amazing excuses, justifications, and reasons for giving in. The key is to recognize them for what they are — caffeine cravings – and ignore them.

The way I dealt with this was to postpone consideration of whether I was going to give in or even give up coffee forever. The idea of forever was a difficult concept to get my head around at that point. I would tell myself, “I’ll think about that later on or tomorrow. I have other issues to deal with right now.”

Looking back on how I played this game with myself several months later, I defined it as sneaking away from the addiction and habit. Trying to deal with it intellectually when you are in the middle of physical and psychological withdrawal is a game that you can easily lose. If you consider how your brain is in an upheaval and misfiring during withdrawal, you can understand why you cannot trust it for a few days. All it knows is that it needs and wants caffeine to function normally and it will tell you anything to get it. When a person quits smoking cigarettes, they go through the same thing but it is much more intense. I know what it’s like, I quit smoking as well.

The stronger the reasons you identify for giving up coffee, the lesser the impact that the physical and psychological withdrawal will have on you, if any. My reasons as discussed above, were a diverse mix fuel by some strong feelings of being fed up and angry.

I was tired of being controlled by caffeine. I was tired of the negative impact caffeine was having on my body and emotions. I was tired of the stains coffee was putting on my teeth. And I was tired of being a victim of the brainwashing by the coffee companies.

I do not believe that coffee companies are evil enterprises selling a product that maims and kills like the cigarette companies do. But I can not see any benefits to putting their product into my body. Knowing how much better I feel physically and emotionally without it is certainly solid evidence to me. When you give up coffee, I think you’ll feel the same.

Brad Paul
http://www.guruhabits.com/

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To see the original article with graphics and links, click: http://www.guruhabits.com/give-up-coffee.html. Brad Paul is the founder of Guru Habits.com, which provides FREE self improvement and lifestyle enhancement resources. Brad left home at 15, lived in a boy’s home, graduated college with honors, headed a marketing group responsible for $400 million in annual sales, wrote 3 books, and now works on projects that improve people’s lives.

Author: Brad Paul
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