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| Over half the population of the U.S. drinks at least two cups of coffee a day. Coffee is not just a beverage, it's a drug. Source Caffeine is found in coffee, tea, chocolate and some soft drinks. One cup of coffee has 107mg of caffeine, one cup of tea has 34mg, and one glass of cola has 47mg, assuming all are caffeinated beverages. Function; Reasons For Use It is the caffeine in coffee which makes it addictive, and which accounts for most of the known adverse effects of coffee. However, there are hundreds of other chemicals in coffee. Caffeine is a carcinogen, but coffee contains numerous other ones, created by the high heat of roasting, such as creosote, pymdine, tars and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The darker the roast, the greater the potential hazard. Excessive coffee intake will exacerbate the withdrawal symptoms when quitting smoking and make it all the more likely to fail to stay off cigarettes. One method to avoid this is to gradually decrease the amount of coffee you drink by 50% each day. Expected Outcome Eventually you'll feel more awake and have a more even energy level throughout the day than when you were drinking coffee. A few weeks or months after quitting, most people come to realize that they feel much better without the coffee habit. Then most people can enjoy a cup of coffee on occasion when a boost is really needed, without triggering a recurrence of the craving that one feels when it is consumed regularly. |