Tea. Is it that mentally addictive ?

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Hi, 

Seems to me that many peoples attitude to drinking tea is identical to a atrong addiction.

How often do you hear "gasping for a cuppa" and the resulting long "ahhhhh" on the first sip ?

This is not normal behaviour

I can take or leave it, and fair play to those that have a bit of what they fancy, but what is it with non-physically addictive leaves in water ?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Yes it is mentally addictive for some.

Amanda · Answer

The caffeine, the taste, the caffeine, the ritual, the warmth, the caffeine...

All I know is that when I had to cut out almost all tea because it had a bad interaction with a medicine I was taking (that I have since stopped due to other intolerable side effects), I had a craving for a week that turned into reading piles of tea books.

Anonymous · Answer

I drink caffeine free tea and still have to have a cup before I go to bed. Like any routine you become used too its hard to just stop - I guess this could be classed as an addiction.

Stacey-Marie J · Answer

It is a habit more than an addiction. Some people are the same with decaffeinated so it can't always be about the caffeine.
Gone off tea myself.

Saz · Answer

It is caffeinated.  Caffeine IS addictive.  People act the same about a cup of coffee, same same.

? · Answer

It has caffeine in it which increases the heart rate making addictive.

i &lt;3 gymnastics · Answer

it has to be the caffeine, people get addicted to it. they can't stop because it makes something in their body like it a lot and your body relies on it.

an on · Answer

anything that makes you feel better has the potential for addictiveness.

Pffffft! · Answer

i crave tea, im craving it rite now and if i wasnt in work id be drinking some right now!

cutie pie · Answer

its true actually...i know people who drink about 8 cups a day...prooves my point

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Tea. Is it that mentally addictive ?

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