How To Kick Your Caffeine Addiction

Australia is a nation of coffee drinkers.

We know what we like, and we definitely know our way around the maze of beverages from flat white to double espresso and everything in between.

So what happens when you’re enjoyable coffee habit becomes a damaging coffee addiction?

Usually, a coffee addiction just builds up over time. You start on one cup a day, and it just slides up the scale. Sometimes it’s because you work near a great coffee shop, other times you work in a coffee shop. Maybe life is just too stressful (or coffee is just too good). Anyway, before you know it you’re chugging down eight cups on a good day and you can barely think about anything else but your next cup.

Sorry, but you’re addicted.

Luckily, all hope is not lost. There’s a caffeine free light at the end of the tunnel, and you can get there by following these tips!

1) Know Where It Comes From

We might think of coffee as the biggest source of caffeinated beverages, but there are actually a whole lot of suspects to blame for your addiction. Caffeine is present in coffee, but you’ll also find it in energy drinks, tea, soft drinks, chocolate, coffee and chocolate flavoured ice cream and some pain killers. So if you eat or drink any of these things on a regular basis, along with your regular coffee, the amount of caffeine in your diet might be much higher than you think. When planning to cut out caffeine, or at least lower your consumption, knowing where it’s coming from it paramount.

Clare Whitfield Chief Editor

Clare Whitfield is the Editor of Stay at Home Mum and a recognised voice in practical home management for Australian families. Based in the northern suburbs of Sydney, she balances editorial leadership with life as a stay at home mum to two school age children. Her background in home economics and more than a decade of experience in recipe development, family budgeting, and household systems inform her work.

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