tea or coffee addiction

Coffee affects individuals differently.

I have never heard of tea withdrawals. Headaches are far too common when quitting coffee but I suppose even heavy tea or soda intake can do it.

I don't think there is a golden mean with coffee. It affects people differently. The golden mean of coffee for me is null.

 

Can you show a source where that numbers are published?
I see other numbers actually.

I've quit coffee for 5 days now. Because I know coffee can be a hold for me. So ... in a certain way: it's addictive.
Every 3 months i test myself how dependent I am to whatever I think I am. That's the only way to see.
After 5 days without coffee, I don't really miss it.
But when i allow myself, I normally drink 3 or 4 cups a day. Sometimes also in the evening. My sleep isn't affected by that.

For me tea is the same as water. I don't like it actually. Maybe if I'm finished with the coffee test, I will try to leave tea for a while.

 

I don't know where you got these numbers but I see that coffee has 4 times more caffeine than tea has. (BTW I drink brewed coffee)

But after all, I wasn't conscious about the amount of caffeine in tea. So thanks

 

Well this is another source (wikipedia). I'm lost

 

Technically tea leaves themselves have a lot more caffeine in it, but when it's brewed after 10 seconds in hot water it gets diluted and loses most of the caffeine unlike coffee beans.

I should know, we love tea.

 

Don't know the caffeine dosage of either but green tea has theanine and yerba mate has something called mateine or something (along with some caffeine) which does not have the edginess of caffeine alone.

 

Try chamomile tea, it isnt addictive at all, and actually helps for anxiety, depression and it calms you and if you have trouble sleeping take one cup with 2 bags 30 min before bed

 

Yeah, tea leaves have a high amount of caffeine before they get brewed, after sitting in hot water it gets diluted and you get a lot less caffeine. Which I why I can't have coffee because of the high caffeine compared to tea.

If you chewed on the leaves you'd probably get a caffeine rush.

 

I drink tea everyday. I'm not an addict.

 

I know alot of people feel withdrawal from coffee but it's not the caffeine alone ... It's the sugar in combination with the caffeine
Which is a problem.
Sugar crash in mixed creamer or the amped beverage from Frappuccino or some other mixed coffee beverages.
If you just drink straight black and quit, you feel less effects.

 

One thing you can always trust: Your own body language. It's never lies.
If you have the feeling: this isn't good for me, then lower the usage or stop using it at all.

@Kenzi You're right about the sugar. That's most addictive.
In the past I stopped using sugar in my coffee (and far in the past same with the tea). It's more easy to stop drinking coffee for a while now.

 

Interesting bit, 8 times is a lot but:

"Scientific studies performed using electroencephalography discovered that theanine decaffeinates tea naturally. If about 8 times more (theanine?) is given (ingested?) than caffeine, the effects of caffeine are completely blunted."

https://www.amazing-green-tea.com/decaffeinated-green-tea.html

 

I can definitely tell you tea has way less caffeine than coffee depending on how long you steep it, and the tea leaves were a joke mate as they still retain the caffeine themselves.