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Step 1
Quit gradually. Going cold turkey rarely works, especially if you're addicted to the caffeine in most pops. The trick to breaking the habit is to do it gradually. So, if you've been drinking five sodas a day, take it down to four a day for a week. Then go to three a day, and so forth until you've stopped drinking pop all together.
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Step 2
Water it down. If you want to stop drinking pop, make it lose some of its potency by diluting it. You can get the same effect by filling up your glass to capacity with ice. You get less soda that way, which can help you eliminate it altogether over time.
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Step 3
Supplement the caffeine. Most people have trouble eliminating pops from their diet because of a caffeine addiction. There are now multi-vitamins that have a bit of caffeine in them, which you can use in the meantime to break yourself of pop gradually.
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Step 4
Choose diet soda. Choosing diet soda will either help you eliminate some calories or break you of the pop habit entirely. If you don't like the aftertaste of diet sodas, you might just choose to drink water over the alternative.
Comments
deafgurl8403 said
on 10/18/2008 diet soda is gross.. but i'm slim person... and still almost never gaining any weights from soda..
chicoguardian said
on 3/24/2008 diet soda is an unfortunatly a bad drink! Your body thinks its getting the calories from it, but once your body finds out, it stores whatever it gets into fat, thus your high obesity rate in America. However I think most of your tips actually seem quite useful ^_^ ill rate this as a four