Will a chocolate bar ease caffeine withdrawl symptoms?
Today I am finally experiencing the much dreaded caffeine withdrawl- headache, irritability, fatigue.
Will eating some chocolate (dark) help?
Answer:
Chocolate contains very little caffeine, and if you're trying to use it to solve withdrawel from coming of of coffee (very caffinated) that's like trying to cure dehydration by having a single drop of water. I think it will either make you want more very badly or do nothing at all. Good job quitting caffeine, I think you should either stick to the cold turkey rout until you get to the five day hump (the point when caffeine withdrawel generally gets dramatically easier) or cut back more slowly and keep tea for a few weeks and slowly cut back until you don't need anymore.
Yes, it surely will. Just one square will do the trick for three to six hours.
yes- and dark choc--in moderation- is good for your heart.xx
It could, dark chocolate has caffeine in it.
Like you I went through the same thing. I finally had to slowly stop drinking coffee. From 8 cups a day to 7, the next week 7 to 6, and so forth. Finally after I got down to one cup a day I switched to decaf and the transition was no big thing. If your having a headache, drink a little coffee. It won't kill you and its better than suffering through that.
Well, assuming that having small doses of caffeine helps, then yes dark chocolate does help. There's about 30mg of caffeine in an average bar of dark chocolate, (although it can range from 5-35 mg).
Also, someone in this forum thread - http://www.home-barista.com/forums/ever-... - reported that having dark chocolate will ease the effects of caffeine withdrawal.
Hope that helped.
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