How much caffeine do you drink and do you consider your consumption level healthy?

Caffeine-free now.

Benefits I've experienced:

• Fall asleep easier.
• Don't feel terrible when waking up in the morning until that first cup of caffeine.
• Generally feel more alert.
• Don't feel tired mid-day.
• Feel healthier for doing it.

Downsides:

• If you fall behind too much on sleep, no crutch to get you through the day: you're just going to have a bad day.
• Lots of drinks have caffeine, so you need to cut down on drinks or find new ones.
• If you eat out a lot at fast food, there are often very limited caffeine-free options for drinks.

Worth mentioning that the first time I abstained cold-turkey, had splitting headaches and felt like the room was spinning. This time, I weaned off very slowly, going from only 1/2 of a cup of black tea to nothing. Despite weaning off, THERE WAS STILL WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS! Nuts! STILL got a headache, although not close to as bad, and still felt very tired with a slight headache. It was a far less intense and much quicker withdrawal than going cold-turkey, but it wasn't very much fun for a day.

 

Another effect I've noticed from quitting caffeine: more dreams, remembering dreams more easily, or vivider dreams. Can't tell which