How to Stop Drinking Soda

Nutritional experts agree that soda pop is just empty calories. They suggest that you stop drinking pop and choose water instead, but that's often easier said than done. If you're struggling to break the habit, you may need some tips to help you through the difficult process. With a few cheats, you can stop drinking pop for good.

Instructions

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  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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.