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This blog is billed as a venue\u00a0for discussion of\u00a0“politics, public policy and life experience.”<\/p>\n

Thus, I have a life experience to share.<\/p>\n

I am trying to wean myself — more or less — of caffeine. It’s much harder than I thought it might be.<\/p>\n

I went all day Sunday without caffeine. Truth be told, I was a bit out of sorts. I suffered from a dull headache for much of the day. I swallowed some pain pills twice before going to sleep last night.<\/p>\n

I’ve known all along about the addictive qualities of caffeine. I consume it mostly through coffee. I love the taste of coffee in the morning. I don’t drink the stuff usually past 10 or 11 a.m. After that, I’m good for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n

My wife and I keep hearing about how caffeine dehydrates you and how that, by itself, is bad for the body. At my age, at least, I need to do whatever I can to protect the only body I’ve ever had.<\/p>\n

So I’ve decided to cut myself off from caffeine.<\/p>\n

Now, understand this: It’s not a complete, cold-turkey break — such as what happened in February 1980 when I quit smoking cigarettes.<\/p>\n

The circumstance is different. I didn’t enjoy<\/em> smoking. I took no particular pleasure in inhaling smoke into my lungs. I just did too much of it and it sickened me to the point of declaring, “That’s it! I’m done!”<\/em> I crumpled the pack of weeds and tossed ’em into the trash.<\/p>\n

I’ve been smoke-free ever since. Thirty-six years. I’m proud of myself.<\/p>\n

Coffee is different.<\/p>\n

I enjoy a cup o’ joe in the morning. Even two, maybe three or four cups of it.<\/p>\n

I just have to curtail my consumption of it.<\/p>\n

My wife reminds me that there doesn’t appear to be anything wrong with having a cup or two of coffee each day. I get it.<\/p>\n

Thus, my life isn’t going to change so dramatically that I’m going to declare\u00a0my body a Caffeine Free Zone.<\/p>\n

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This blog is billed as a venue\u00a0for discussion of\u00a0“politics, public policy and life experience.” Thus, I have a life experience to share. I am trying to wean myself — more or less — of caffeine. It’s much harder than I thought it might be. I went all day Sunday without caffeine. Truth be told, I … Continue reading Caffeine addiction takes firm grip<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6490,6488,6489],"class_list":["post-16505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-addiction","tag-caffeine","tag-nicotine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16508,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16505\/revisions\/16508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}