Caffeine

Lifehacker has an informative post about how to gradually wean yourself off of caffeine.

On one hand, it's a shame they didn't have this a month ago when I quit cold turkey. On the other, I've never been succesful at phasing something in. I have to do it whole hog. That's right, cold turkey whole hog. Elemenohpee, your premier source for mixed metaphors employing tasty domesticated animals.

Lifehacker shares this bit:

Cold turkey caffeine quitters will experience unpleasant withdrawal symptoms, like headaches, distraction, irritability and possibly nausea and dizziness.

I wonder why they didn't mention the flaming chimpanzees crawling around under the skin?