It's has nothing really to do with the taste of any kind of caffeine...it's the buzz..the crazed-out-mania I experience over & over. I can quit, but for me to stay off of it completely is my struggle...I know all the negatives...I'm off it, start to feel better and boom back at it. Accountability to my God or myself is not enough, sadly not even to my 2 kids, hubby or any other poor soul who crosses my path in my paranoid, crabbed-out mood!! Yea, it feels great for a fleeting moment or two. To sum it up...I'm nuts and the "slave to any caffeine" just makes me more nuts!! So I'll get back on the wagon today...be trashed for a week or so and we'll see how it goes. It's cold turkey & no "kicky drink substitutes" tried them... they just lead me back. Yes, there's a reason I'm writing this at 2am..and it's not cause I work the night shift!! Katie