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But I’d say (at least that’s my experience) it’s not a very addictive substance. Or it depends heavily on the person.
I drink 0-5 cups a day. I like the taste and I like drinking it in some social settings. I don’t need it in the morning to get my body awake. I can just stop drinking coffee any time for longer periods of time without any issues.
Once I was working in Bavaria for about 6 weeks. We drank around 1l of beer every dinner. Returning home I wanted to drink a beer after the first dinner. This made me stop drinking alcohol for two months and since I made this experience I regularly stop consuming substances that may be addictive. I never experienced this with caffeine.
Caffeine is physically addictive. You get withdrawals if you're addicted and stop cold turkey. It does vary person to person. But most people get a splitting headache.
Maybe it's not very addictive for you. It is for most people.
The way you are with coffee is the way I am with nicotine. I've smoked. I've quit smoking. I've started again. The most craving I've gotten for a cigarette was incredibly mild. Once I read that nicotine could trigger certain diseases that run in my family, I quit tobacco completely and I've never looked back. I haven't had a cigarette in about 18 years, and quitting was trivially easy for me.
Based on this, I could say "Cigarettes aren't very addictive. They're easy to quit!" And of course, I'd be dead wrong.