How To Quit Coffee And Replace It With These 10 Teas

Are you trying to quit coffee? Drink these teas instead.

Years before I fully understood why, too much caffeine would send my heart racing. I began to experience side effects—the jittery nerves, hurried sensation and ultimate crash. I felt terrible because I was consuming way too much caffeine.

So I gave up the coffee habit many years ago. I didn't quit cold turkey — simply transitioned to tea. I always drank tea but there was a time I had to have that mega-coffee-caffeine kick in the morning, especially in the chaos of full-time work and raising a family.

Many years later, I discovered I had a congenital heart condition, Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome, which explained why too much caffeine made my heart start racing or have extra beats. (A quick trick if this happens to you is called the Valsalva Maneuver—coughing or holding your breath and bearing down can help. This temporarily increases thoracic pressure, and when released, it stimulates the vagus nerve, the parasympathetic nerve that slows the heart rate.)

I mainly drink black, green, oolong, and herbal tea. Surprisingly, I also like a good espresso, which does not cause heart problems for me. It's a proportional misperception that espresso has more caffeine than a cup of coffee. A one-ounce espresso shot has about the same caffeine as an 8-ounce cup of tea.

Espresso typically has 63 mg of caffeine in 1 ounce (the amount in one shot), according to Department of Agriculture nutrition data. Regular coffee, by contrast, has 12 to 16 mg of caffeine in every ounce, on average...If you drink 8 ounces of your home brew, you're getting 96 to 128 mg of caffeine. ¹

I've noticed I'm not dependent on caffeine now. It's nice to pick me up in the morning, but I feel okay if I don't drink it. I can also drink tea all day and never get shaky. That's because of the natural calming effects of l-theanine in tea. An average cup of black tea has about 50 mg of caffeine.

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Tea for Coffee Drinkers

Just as it happened to me, many coffee drinkers become fatigued by the extreme caffeine highs followed by the inevitable crash. The ups and downs get tiresome, and eventually, quitting coffee becomes the only answer. Switching from coffee to tea is easy once you know where to start.

I finally quit my morning coffee routine after I had had enough of coffee's ups and downs and went back to drinking tea. This review will help you find the best tea to replace coffee. Here's how to do it.