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For anyone worried about negative side effects of quitting caffeine, you can quit without the side effects using cheap caffeine pills (No Doz brand awakeners or similar).

Quit coffee and replace with caffeine pills instead. Slowly decrease your dose over a few weeks (“titration”), using parts of pills, until you reach zero dosage.

I’ve done it multiple times to avoid the headaches and other side effects (that I got if I tried to quit cold turkey).

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Can't you also just drink less and less coffee?

[robocat]

You could, but it is harder to break your existing patterns of behaviour, and easier to slip up if you order a coffee at a cafe, for example.

I have also quit by starting with a teaspoon of instant coffee without mixing it in hot water, then slowly decreasing the amount of instant coffee until zero over a couple of weeks.

Now I know it is so easy to quit, therefore I restart a coffee habit without fear, which means I don’t stay off the coffee!