I'm not the person you replied to, but I can share my experience.
I used to drink at least 2 cups of coffee a day, and at least 3-4 of black tea.
over a year I slowly backed down to just a single coffee coffee in the morning.. then eventually switched to decafe coffee for that one. I had headaches for about a week, and I think I was irritable.
Recently I stopped even the decafe coffee, and now drink 1 or 2 decafe tea a day when it's cold.
I feel great, save money and don't miss the ups and downs of real coffee - I used to get the sweats, shakes, funny shallow breathing, etc. etc.
I also had no idea I was living life through a "fog", that I didn't even know about until a few months after I stopped. Life is much better now.