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4 Steps to Quit Coffee
1. Pay Attention to Your Sleeping Habits. You’re likely relying on coffee to supplement a lack of quality sleep. Make a deliberate effort to go to bed at a decent time to give your body the hours of sleep it needs. Start with giving yourself eight hours. If you have to wake up at 6 am, count eight hours back from 5:30 am and make that your bedtime. When you go to bed, make sure you have prepared a comfortable place to sleep with the right temperature, linen, lighting, and sound — whatever that may be for you. I know many of us like to sleep with the tv on, but try turning it off or turning the screen away from your face with the volume down so that it does not interfere with your sound sleep. After just a couple of days of this — maybe even after the first day — you should notice your body getting up with greater ease at your designated wake-up time. You may find you’re waking up sooner. As soon as you wake up, get up! You should also feel less tired throughout the day.
2. Start Incorporating Healthy Options. You don’t have to quit cold turkey; you can make it a gradual approach. Say you drink three cups of coffee a day — one at each meal. Try incorporating a cup of ginger tea or another healthy, non-coffee alternative at one of your meals. Try this for a week, then increase the drink to two meals. Then, by week three, you should have replaced all meals with your non-coffee drink. Combined with Step 1…
