Addicted to Coke

[faded glory]

Man I go through 2-3 cases of Pepsi a week

How do I stop? It tastes so damn good.

Breakfast this morning: Turkey Bacon, Eggs, Pepsi

4 Pepsi's in the interval between lunch.

Lunch: Popcorn, 2 Pepsi's

Dinner: Applebee's Rib Basket, Beer....but rounding it off with big Glasses of Pepsi

since Ive been home I have drank 4 pepsi's

[Asher]

I'm the same way with coke (not Pepsi, ugh), and Dr. Pepper.

[Dominikos]

No wonder Coke & Pepsi conquered the world!

With the likes of faded glory running around it must have been easy conquering the world.

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~Emperor Dominik~

[faded glory]

Do you think they do this on purpose?

[Dominikos]

Everybody knows that the Bavarian Illuminati own Coke and Pepsi and all the other softdrinks out there!

It's elementary!

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~Emperor Dominik~

[faded glory]

I dont know what will kill me first. Diabeties from too much sugar, or smoking Or a bit of both?

[Ted Striker]

7 UP YOUR'S FADED!!!

[Ted Striker]

So faded do you have the same problem with decaf soda like 7UP or Sprite?

[Eli]

Fill a cup with your Pepsi and put there a steak. Return a day later to see what happened to it.
Btw, it's also a great material for washing toilets.

[BeBMan]

Re: Addicted to Coke

Originally posted by faded glory
Man I go through 2-3 cases of Pepsi a week

Oh my god, how can you live in that way?

[Paul Hanson]

A friend of mine drinks between 5-10 2 litre bottles of Dr. Pepper a week, money permitting.

[Sprayber]

It's A Habit, Not An Addiction

Well, mostly anyway. Some people say they get headaches when they don't drink the pepsi, but i never did when I quit for a long time. It's mostly a habit.

I'm almost as bad as Faded is. Lately, I have been subtituting pepsi with milk or some kind of juice or even just water. But when I eat out I invariably drink a soda or beer.

At home I drink Pepsi

When I eat out I drink Dr. Pepper

When I'm driving long distance, I always have a pepsi or Mountain Dew in my hand or close by.

So It's hard to stop the habit. My advice is to just buy different type drinks. Juices, or milk or just anything besides pepsi. Don't try and quit it all at once or you will fail. Just cut back at first. Summer is approaching and the lure of a nice cold pepsi will tempt you but have some lemonaide instead. I find one of the worst times is during break at work. It's just a routine of mine to go into the lounge and get a pepsi and read the paper. Recently they took at one of the soda machines and replaced it with the different types of juices.

[Dauphin]

I drink a fair bit of the "Diet" stuff, so I don't get the sugar rush. I temper the caffeine intake by drinking the fizzy stuff sans caffeine. I do drink too much fizzy stuff out of habit though - but I don't drink tea/coffee or any other caffeine drinks, so hopefully that cancels out.

Unfortunately there is not much else to drink but water - so why not carbonated flavoured water. Is nutrasweet bad for you?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by faded glory
Do you think they do this on purpose?

Duh,

We are talking about companies (Coke and Pepsi) that fought a war in Thailand in the '80s (with guns and dynamite) shooting and blowing up each other's distributors. Coke has called in death squads in Colombia and Guatamala to kill union organizers. Pepsi works with a government that practices slavery (Myanmar). You think they have any qualms about addicting you?

[chequita guevara]

Not missing the caffene

It's a combination of the caffene and the sugar. My advice, ween yourself off one, then the other. I first switched from Coke to Sprite. After two weeks of Hell (caffene addiction withdrawls is not pretty--but then, neither is caffene addiction), I didn't need it any more. After about a year, I stopped driking so much Sprite, and now I hardly have sweet soda at all (I still will go in for ginger ale or any of the hand crafted sodas, but rarely).

BTW, my best friend's dentist told him that that he had to quit drinking soda. He was drinking so much (about 1 2-liter bottle a day) that he was dissolving the enamal on his teeth.

As for the caffene addiction, I decided to break the habit just in order to get some sleep, but I got two unexpected benefits. The daily headaches I'd had for well over ten years were gone within two weeks of going cold turkey and my constant heartburn went away. I could now sleep through the night without waking up multiple times a night. If I have more than one Coke or cup of coffee in a day and if I have it later than lunch, all of the symptoms return.

One of the smartest things I ever did.