How To Kick Your Caffeine Addiction

2) Choose To Control Or Cut

If you’re starting to think you need (or want) to drink less coffee and have less caffeine in your life, you’re probably wanting to get started straight away. But, if you drink several cups of coffee a day, or a number of caffeinated drinks, your body is going to hate you for going cold turkey. Instead of stressing your your body and feeling terrible, consider controlling your caffeine intake over the day and week, making an effort to progressively cut back on how much caffeine you’re having regularly. This might mean taking stock of all the caffeine you absorb on a normal day, and trying to reduce that by a single beverage a day or every few days until you’re back to a normal amount or you’ve cut it out.

3) Change Your Wakeup Routine

For many people coffee is very much about ritual and habit. When you wake up in the morning, your behaviour is leading you onto your first cup of coffee, and the cycle of the day is set. So, in order to change your reliance on coffee, or any caffeinated beverage, change the routine that gets you there. When you get up in the morning instead of reaching for your morning cuppa, occupy yourself with something else. That might be doing some morning yoga, or enjoying a walk. It might even be reading a book or having a smoothie. Just take caffeine out of the picture.

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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