Never mind the timetable, Dodi, its the direction of travel that is important. Mussolini had the trains run on time, but overall he didn't get Italy very far!

If its such a big deal maybe you could tippytoe into caffeine free? Mix your coffee half and half with decaf for a week, then get it down to 25%, etc etc. Eventually I bet you'd get bored!

I went cold turkey years ago, and it was very hard. I had the mother of all hangovers for a fortnight. I stayed caffeine free for years, and then started to drink the occasional cuppa. But even those have been screwing up my sleep recently, so I've decided to stop again.

Its true, it doesn't taste as good, but decaf is just fine.