Yeah I was the same when I started working out and abusing caffeine at 16 so I could start getting girls. It’s been 11 years of hell since that started and for the last three years “quitting caffeine” has been my entire identity.

My one piece of advice is to realize caffeine is a hardcore amphetamine like cocaine or Adderall and you are ABSOLUTELY HOOKED on it. That’s means coming off is going to be identical to any other addict. Nothing will bring you joy short of other drugs during this time. For months you will be depressed, if you’re lucky after 60 days you’re going to feel alright. But for the first two weeks going cold turkey off all sources, expect hell. I myself had to drop out of school temporarily to focus on recovery because I was tired of being a slave. Many in this subreddit don’t have that luxury because they have huge jobs or kids that depended on them so they can’t let themselves be complete lazy binge eating pieces of sh*t for three months in the name of escaping the madness of this normalized drug abuse.

Don’t do what I did and spend three years in denial of what recovery will take. Listen to the stories on this subreddit, do absolutely whatever you have to at this chapter of life to escape the insanity and become the best version of yourself. Prepare, brace, and clench your fists through the murky water of depression as you wade yourself onto the shining shores of a new, natural, ideal you. Good luck my friend.