I decided to quit caffeine cold turkey.
BAD IDEA!
There's this thing called caffeine withdraw headache and I've found out two things while looking around the web:
1. You can't quit cold turkey without considerable headaches. And...
2. There is no pain killer that can help the headache... unless of course the pain killer has caffeine in it.
I had a headache like no other I've ever had. It lasted all day and even double doses of Tylenol, Advil and aspirin didn't help it. I had to cave in and drink a Pepsi to make the pain go away.
But that's ok. That's still 1/8 the caffeine I normally have in a day. I read that the painless way to quit caffeine is to take one caffeinated drink out of your diet every week until there are no more. I think I'm going to deal with the headaches and just drink a Pepsi whenever the headaches become unbearable. As long as I'm still reducing my caffeine intake and it takes less time than taking one drink away every week for the next eight weeks, I should be in good shape. We'll see.