How to Quit Caffeine for Good - Part Two

You can quit caffeine for good using the simple, powerful techniques revealed in this article.

In our last piece we covered the first two steps in the formula for successfully quitting caffeine. They were:

 1. Accept the fact that you have a real addiction that's serious business.

2. Find as many people as possible to support your effort to quit

In this article we'll have a closer look at the final two steps for quitting caffeine. Take action on these simple steps and you'll be on your way to a caffeine-free life.

Change Your Routine

A routine change is critical when you want to quit caffeine or any other addictive substance. By breaking the predictability of your daily pattern you decrease the likelihood of compulsive actions.

In this case, by eating breakfast in a different part of your house, and even changing the order of mundane activities like showering and shaving, you create unfamiliar territory for yourself. Once you are out of your normal routine you decrease the odds of simply reaching for your cup of coffee where it normally rests on the counter, for instance.

Removing this sort of compulsive, automatic action from your day goes a long way toward relieving the stress of abstinence and helping you to quit caffeine for good.

If you don't currently exercise in the morning, you should seriously consider starting. This will elevate your heart rate and give you a healthy charge of energy to replace the standard caffeine fix you've become used to.

You might even want to try an herbal energy drink in the morning. This will take the place of your usual caffeine beverage and leave you with a healthy lift.

Always Take One Day At A Time

Avoid thinking in terms of "forever" and "never again". These attitudes have enormous implications that can exhaust your energy and make you feel very small and vulnerable.

Instead, simply take one day at a time. All you really need to do to quit caffeine for good is not drink any today!

This technique drastically reduces the scope of what you need to do in order to succeed. Who wouldn't be intimidated with the idea of keeping something up for the next 50 years? It's much easier, both practically and emotionally, to manage a 24-hour period of time.

Anyone can quit caffeine for just one day. All you need to do is start a new day every morning when you wake up and renew your motivation and enthusiasm.

By breaking your long-term goal down into a more manageable frame of time you increase your chances of success exponentially. And you take an enormous amount of pressure off yourself, making it possible to actually enjoy the process of quitting caffeine.

Armed with these simple but highly effective steps caffeine will be no match for you! These tactics are taken directly from many of the leading addiction treatment philosophies, which are used to help people who are hooked on drugs like alcohol and heroine.

If these simple steps work for people who are addicted to life-threatening chemicals and hard drugs, they will certainly help you quit caffeine and stay caffeine-free for as long as you want.