Originally Posted by GerandTwine

If you can do 2 cups a day indefinitely, then I'd say enjoy it. But I wouldn't encourage you to think of it as a wake up or stay-awake tool. Just think of it as a brain high. It made me feel so optimistic and competent about everything for about 45 minutes.

I wanted that high to last longer than caffeine provided it.
I was getting a bunch of negative effects from 10+ cups per day, degraded sleep, digestion, thought stability.
When I cut way back, I had huge headaches and bone joint pain, which I never experienced otherwise.

So, I quit coffee a number of years after booze/drugs.

Then I fairly quickly quit chocolate when I realized how my caffeine Beast was driving a Hershey's semi truck load of extra large semi-sweet chocolate bars through that loophole.

I've been able to 1) get out of bed faster, and 2) stay awake longer and on a more even keel without any caffeine at all than when I used it.