[benihana]

I love coffee. I love drinking it and I love the effects it has. I love the feeling of a waking up with a nice hot cuppa every morning as I read the news. I love getting a cup in the afternoon after lunch. I love making coffee for my wife, and I love when she offers to make me a cup when she makes herself a cup. I love coffee even though since I started lifting weights and eating well, I don't really need it.

Every comment when I wrote this was about giving up coffee. I wanted to offer a different perspective.

[chestervonwinch]

I used to smoke cigarettes quite a bit for a number of years. If you replaced everything in your comment about coffee to the corresponding language about cigarettes, I would've resonated perfectly with your description assuming I still smoked.

I gave up smoking but continue to drink coffee, so your comment still does resonate :)

disclaimer: I'm not trying to compare the effects of coffee and nicotine, and I don't know the first thing about the physiological basis of addiction.

[sharkweek]

Love coffee - used to work at a coffee related startup as well where we had access to the nicest machines and best, freshest roasts. I got extremely geeky about it for a few years. I have since calmed down on my consumption but have no plans on ever giving it up.

The one negative is that I become quite a miserable person if I don't have my morning cup before 9am. At that point it almost feels too late to recover with onset headaches almost inevitable. Even with that in mind I have no plans on trying to quit. Went cold turkey for about 3 months once just to prove I could do it, sucked for about 2-3 days then felt fine.

[ane]

Same here. I drink it for just the taste and smell. I can go off it for days and I don't get any adverse effects, nor do I feel any different lest I consume it excessively (about a litre).