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Coffee 'not a boost in the morning'

by Victoria Revay | March 5, 2007 at 10:12 am

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If you're a regular coffee drinker, that morning cup o'Joe might not be waking you up after all, just giving you a quick caffeine fix. Researchers in England say we feel better after drinking coffee because of our withdrawal of caffeine that happens over night. But it actually doesn't "wake" us up, it just adjusts our levels of caffeine for the morning. On that note, Starbucks is holding it's second annual Coffee Break, March 15th. The coffee giant will be giving away just that -- coffee -- between 10am-12pm, so log onto their website and enter this code "MYSBUX" (697289) to find out the nearest location serving up your fix nearest to you.

University of Bristol researchers say the caffeine eases withdrawal symptoms which build up overnight, but does not make people more alert than normal.

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goldcoaster

at 15:41 on March 6th, 2007

I don't care. I still need a coffee in the morning. :)

Cash

at 16:08 on March 6th, 2007

It may have nothing at all to do with the caffeine either way. Seth Roberts, Psych Professory at Berkeley wrote in an article New Way To Quit Smoking? that while no one gets addicted to water lots of people get addicted to Coke. It's the conditioning signal that makes the addictive quality, not so much the chemical.

Calories alone provide little pleasure. Tastes provide a small amount. But the conditioning stimulus provides a lot and becomes the addiction. So maybe the smell of coffee has more effect than the caffeine and that's why it wears off.

So if you want to cure coffee addiction, hold your nose while you drink it. :-)