Addicted to Coca Cola, can't stop it

[Ieyke]

Here is a fun fact:
Coca Cola is so corrosive jewelers use it to clean oxidation on silver.

Fun-er factolice officers sometimes carry bottles of coke to clean blood off the pavement at accidents and such...

It's so corrosive Coca-Cola syrup has to be transported in trucks marked as hazardous materials.

 

[Vault101]

if cold turkey is too mcuh..try replacing ti with somthing...like juice or tea

not that I can give advice..since Im an energy drink addict

 

[Vault101]

Here is a fun fact:
Coca Cola is so corrosive jewelers use it to clean oxidation on silver.

Fun-er factolice officers sometimes carry bottles of coke to clean blood off the pavement at accidents and such...

It's so corrosive Coca-Cola syrup has to be transported in trucks marked as hazardous materials.

thats not true...mythbusters even did it

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Simple. Hire someone to replace the contents with Pepsi and all addictions will vanish.
TADAAAAA!

Seriously, though, brush your dang teeth as much as you can til you do quit. That stuff is ungodly corrosive.

 

[Blobpie]

The way i got off my coca-cola addiction was i drank milk, and only milk.

What you should d is find another favorite beverage and drink that instead. Every time you crave a coke, drink the other beverage, when you eat a meal drink the other beverage.

The trick here is to get you off the habit of drinking coke.


Note: Don't replace cola with coffee or alcohol.

 

[Tsunimo]

I suppose try to work your way off the stuff slowly, go a few days without it, and reward yourself with one, expanding the time between each reward, after awhile, you probably won't crave it at all, or at least not as much.
I tried to slow it by just drinking carbonated water, but after awhile I had to stop cold turkey 'cause of a stomach ulcer.
It sucked for a while, but once you've gone without it for a while its hard to start again, anything carbonated ruins my stomach, and soda doesn't even taste good anymore.
Can't say I'm sad about the money it says either.

 

[Rabid Gamer]

Switch to the lighter stuff like RC cola, if you can find it you get to drink it.

But in all truth just thank god you are drinking that much Coffee, it's much worse for you.

 

[CODE-D]

Let me just say that I flipping love soft drinks. It's got to the point where I can't even quench my thirst by drinking anything else anymore. I drink 3 710 m bottles a day and know its disgusting but I just can't stop it as if I go even a day without it my mouth just feels so dry.

I eat very healthy, with a good mix of fruits and vegetables and cook all my meals and I despise how much I look forward to the next time I drink another coke. I've tried alternatives, I love tomato juice / milk but I can't even drink them anymore because I'd rather have a soft drink. I want to stop so badly, does ANYONE have any advice on how to stop a soft drink addiction?

Drink Coke zero like me.

 

[JMeganSnow]

Your body may have become adapted to a higher salt intake, as well, so you may find you have increased desire for salt while you're quitting the coke. A sudden decrease in your carbohydrate intake (which also happens when you quit something as high-carb as coke) can also cause a sudden lack of electrolytes. I went on a low carb diet fairly recently and the first week or so I was *exhausted*, then I read about the salt problem and some recommendations to drink salty beef broth or similar. It made a big difference.

Also, you're going to need to replace those calories with something, otherwise you'll be craving. I'd suggest butter.

The amount of sodium in Coke is negligible.

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear, but high carb intake seriously screws up how your body stores and eliminates salt. It doesn't have to be present IN the beverage for it to be a serious problem. If you suddenly reduce your carb intake, you will very often have all sorts of goofy problems with low salt levels and dehydration and other issues.

 

[JMeganSnow]

Note: Don't replace cola with coffee or alcohol.

Coffee is actually better for you in terms of blood glucose than milk, especially (ugh) lowfat milk. Not only does milk contain high levels of lactose (i.e. milk sugar) which has a heavy carb load just like the HFCS in soda, milk proteins act to increase your body's insulin production.

Me, I quit caffeine (I've been quitting all sorts of things recently--wheat, starch, sugar, most dairy) so I switched to herbal tea. It's usually not too hard to find interesting flavors out there.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Replace it with cocaine. The resemblance in name is probably comforting.

 

[DanielBrown]

No advice other than just quitting all togeather. I'm also addicted as fuck to caffeine, but I chug Pepsi. Drink about two liters every day and if I don't I get mad headaches, which also makes me angry as hell.

 

[thylasos]

Not an addiction. Smoke for four years and try to give up, then talk to me about addiction, man.

What makes you think a smoking addiction is any different from a coca-cola addiction? Just because smoking is more common, doesn't mean it's harder to give up.

Through my lifetime, I have struggled with two major addictions: sex/porn and Doritos; from my experience, both were equally hard to quit.

Oh, probably because in neurological tests it's been shown to be comparable to heroin in terms of its addictiveness.

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

First I'd like to point out that it's not coke you're addicted to, it's the caffine. If you have a major problem with the damage coke does to your teeth, then switch to coffee. If you have a problem with the caffine addiction itself, then buy a twevle pack of caffine free coke. Drink 4 the first day, 3 the next, 2 the next, and 1 on the last. It worked for me and you fool your brain into thinking that it's getting the caffine it wants while in essence quiting cold turkey. Results not guarenteed of course.

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

Not an addiction. Smoke for four years and try to give up, then talk to me about addiction, man.

What makes you think a smoking addiction is any different from a coca-cola addiction? Just because smoking is more common, doesn't mean it's harder to give up.

Through my lifetime, I have struggled with two major addictions: sex/porn and Doritos; from my experience, both were equally hard to quit.

Oh, probably because in neurological tests it's been shown to be comparable to heroin in terms of its addictiveness.

So are fatty foods bro.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-03-29/entertainment/27060327_1_fatty-foods-heroin-addicts-unhealthy-foods

 

[Wintermoot]

cold turkey I switched from coke to seltzer water with some lemonade in it (you know the type that you need to dilate with water)