I’d spend the last 20 years zig-zagging between trying to quit caffeine and falling back into old patterns and feeling trapped in a caffeine addiction. But now, two years after finally kicking my caffeine addiction for good, I can honestly say that quitting caffeine changed my life for the better in every way.

Quitting Caffeine Changed My Life
Quitting Caffeine Made My Life Better In Every Way
Until two years ago I had spent nearly my entire adult life planning my day about around having enough time to get in line to “grab a cup of coffee”. I took over-the-counter sleep aides to fall asleep while at the same time I’d even perfected how to take a Power Nap after drinking a cup of coffee. I was anxious and moody but I blamed it all on my type-A personality that wanted to get things done and succeed.

This behavior started long before coffee become an obsession in our society. For me, it started in 1987. I was living in Seattle and working for an advertising agency making $12,000 a year and working 90-hour weeks. It was kind of my personal version of the movie “The Devil Wears Prada”. Expect we were working on national and regional advertising campaigns. From the outside it looked glamourous. I could point out ads on TV I worked on. I even had bit parts as an extra in some commercials.

But the reality was grueling. I would get to work at 7am for a staff meeting and work straight through until midnight, sometimes 2am, before sleeping a couple hours and doing it again. I also did this while being sexually harassed, but that is another story. The point is, I was overworked, extremely stressed, and relying heavily on caffeine to muscle through a horrible situation making less than half the going minimum wage for my efforts.

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