Do you require a daily dose of caffiene to function?

[frankharem]

Not really. I only drink coffee when I feel like it and when I'm craving that coffee taste. I have gastritis so as much as possible I refrain from drinking caffeine. There are low acid coffee available but they still make my stomach ache when drank early in the morning.

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

Not anymore. I was drinking entirely too much soda and when I decided I wanted to improve my quality of life and get in shape, I quit cold turkey.

For a few days afterwards I would walk past it in the store like

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[krissy]

*hourly

[Iceglow]

Because chemically speaking, Tea has as much caffeine in it per cup as coffee (mostly because of equivalent strengths and measures and what-not) I'm going to have to say yes. However, a cup of coffee or a cup of tea in the morning is not nearly as important as the daily ritual I perform on waking up. You know, the hour or more of preening myself to ensure that when I walk out the door in the morning I look glorious.

Seriously, average morning for me looks like this:

- Wake up at 5:15am - straight in to the shower
- .5:30am (I like long showers) get dry, put underpants on
- Drink 125ml of Protein shake
- Get ironing board and iron begin ironing
- 5:45 - 6:00am (depends on how tough the suit was to iron today) get in bathroom, begin tidying up the facial hair with razors, tweezers, scissors whatever it takes
- Moisturize face and neck, also elbows (I get super dry skin on my elbows)
- Style hair
- 6:30am - Get dressed (if my housemates are moviing around I may have already put my trousers on)
- 6:35am - Grab a pack of porridge to take to work and if time have a cup of coffee/tea
- 6:45am - Brush Teeth
- 7:00am - Head to work

Note, this is if I'm starting at 7:45am, on weeks where I start at 7am I shave 10 minutes off the shower and skip coffee/tea. I also find a way of not spending quite as much time grooming as I normally do so that I can wake up around the same time but spend only an hour getting ready (leaving for work at 6:15am latest) not 105 mins!

I am fully aware how vain that above ritual of getting ready every morning makes me. I'm also very much aware that most girls are quicker.

[Bubba]

I have a cup of tea in the morning and occasionally a cup at night, but it's more for the enjoyment of drinking the tea than it is because I need a perk-up.

This pretty much sums me up.

It isn't a necessity but I do enjoy an early morning and early evening cuppa. My evening cup is usually accompanied by some rich tea biscuits.

[Mirage]

Because chemically speaking, Tea has as much caffeine in it per cup as coffee (mostly because of equivalent strengths and measures and what-not) I'm going to have to say yes. However, a cup of coffee or a cup of tea in the morning is not nearly as important as the daily ritual I perform on waking up. You know, the hour or more of preening myself to ensure that when I walk out the door in the morning I look glorious.

There's like 3 times as much caffeine in coffee when it's ready to be served as a liquid in a cup. Of course, it'll vary with the kind of coffee and tea you use(espresso has like twice as much as "standard" coffee), but it's nowhere near the same amount in each type of drink.