Best Way To Beat A Caffeine Addiction?

ethanms writes "I'm pretty sure that I'm addicted to caffeine... I get nasty headaches if I skip coffee and soda for a day. If I go even longer, then the headaches get worse and I start to become (even more of) a pain in the ass to those around me. Within five or ten minutes of a cup of joe or can of Mountain Dew the headache is gone and I feel fine... There's plenty of advice out there for dealing with addiction, but I'm really interested in how other /. users have managed and controlled their own caffeine intake, especially considering how heavily it is pushed by many development / engineering communities. 'Just drink more' isn't really the answer I'm after either."

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Re:multiple withdrawals

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"I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." -George Bush

That's George HW Bush who said that, by the way. I don't have any real reason to belive that GWB feels differently, but I still wouldn't imply that he said it by leaving out the middle initials.

Cancer is not the only negative effect

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Lets see, where's my trusty "50 things you're not supposed to know" book?

Russ Kick refrences this book.

I can't find the book online, but this is pretty much what it covers. Let's just say the "Cancer Gambit" doesn't pay.

Smoking was responsible for 70 percent of all cancer deaths and nearly 19 percent of cardiovascular disease deaths in Missouri in 1995. Missouri Department of Health; Center for Health Information Management & Epidemiology. Smoking-Attributable Mortality in Missouri. Monthly Vital Statistics 1998 March;32(1).

Lung cancer has now surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of smoke-related deaths among white middle-class smokers. Thun MJ. Excess Mortality Among Cigarette Smokers: Changes in a 20-year Interval. American Journal of Public Health 1995; 85(9):1223-30.

Smokers have a 50 percent greater chance of contracting a deadly form of adult leukemia. Napier K. Cigarettes: what the warning label doesn't tell you: the first comprehensive guide to the health consequences of smoking. NY: American Council on Science and Health; 1996.

Smoking doubles the risk of developing pancreatic cancer. Silverman DT, Dunn JA, Hoover RN, Schiffman M, Lillemoe KD, Schoenberg JB, et al. Cigarette smoking and pancreas cancer: A case-control study based on direct interviews. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1994; 86(20):1510-16.

Smoking is a risk factor for developing rheumatoid arthritis. Symmons DPM, et al. Blood Transfusion, Smoking, and Obesity as Risk Factors for the Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results from a Primary Care-Based Incident Case-Control Study in Norfolk, England. Arthritis & Rheumatism 1997; 40:1955-1961.

According to a recent study, smokers have a 70 percent greater risk of suffering from hearing loss than nonsmokers. Cruickshanks K, Klein R, Klein BE, Wiley TL, Nondahl DM, Tweed TS. Journal of the American Medical Association 1998; 279(21):1715-1719.

Smoking increases the chance of developing cataracts and other eye diseases. Napier K. Cigarettes: what the warning label doesn't tell you: the first comprehensive guide to the health consequences of smoking. NY: American Council on Science and Health; 1996.

Smokers who develop skin cancer are more likely to die of their disease than nonsmokers. Napier K. Cigarettes: what the warning label doesn't tell you: the first comprehensive guide to the health consequences of smoking. NY: American Council on Science and Health; 1996.

Smoking increases the risk of duodenal ulcers, Crohn's Disease, and colon polyps. Napier K. Cigarettes: what the warning label doesn't tell you: the first comprehensive guide to the health consequences of smoking. NY: American Council on Science and Health; 1996.

Women who quit smoking may dramatically reduce their risk of cervical cancer. Szarewski A, Jarvis MJ, Sasieni P, Anderson M, Edwards R, Steele SJ, et al. Effect of smoking cessation on cervical lesion size. Lancet 1996; 347(9006):941-3.

Women who are exposed to tobacco smoke (smoking and secondhand smoke) every day are two to three times more likely to develop breast cancer. Morabia A, Bernstein M, Heritier S, Khatchatrian N. Relation of breast cancer with passive and active exposure to tobacco smoke. American Journal of Epidemiology 1996; 143(1):918-28.

Smoking increases the chance of developing colorectal, bladder, kidney, and pancreatic cancers. Napier K. Cigarettes: what the warning label doesn't tell you: the first comprehensive guide to the health consequences of smoking. NY: American Council on Science and Health; 1996.

Smoking increases the chance of impotence in males. Napier K. Cigarettes: what the warning label doesn't tell you: the first comprehensive guide to the health consequences of smoking. NY: American Council on Science and Health; 1996.

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