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I spoke with my doctor before trying to quit cold turkey, and she put me onto a solution for the headaches: Migraine medicine. Migraines apparently work very much like caffeine rebound headaches, in that you're getting waaaay too much blood flow to your head. The medicines work like caffeine, as they are also vasoconstrictiors, but they're more gentle, and don't tend to have the bungee-like rebound that caffeine has. My doctor gave me a week's supply of migraine medicine, and wanted to see me after I finished my detox. Well, when the headache came, I gave the migraine medicine a try, and sure enough: no more headache. And I don't mean it just went to the background, and still hurt. No, it was stopped cold. Now, I still drug my tail and snarled at the world, but my head did not feel like it would explode. The story ends with me quitting cold turkey, and no more headaches after about 6 days.

This is just my experience, and think of it what you will, but I hope it can help somebody out there...