Raise your hand if you've conquered your Diet Coke addiction

Having chemotherapy cured me of my Diet Coke habit, I now drink cold bottled sparkling water.

A bit drastic I know, but 3 years later and I still don’t crave Diet Coke or any other pop

Well done to all those that have quit and good luck to those who are trying to limit or quit

I drank Diet Pepsi then Diet Coke for many, many years, multiple cans per day. I stopped about five years ago, after I got a kidney stone, and then another. I made other changes at the same time, so I can't say for sure that it was only the diet soda that made the difference, but I haven't had another stone since I stopped.

I had a sip of DD's Diet Coke the other day and it tasted awful! I can't believe I used to drink that swill.

I wasn't an addict per se, but I drank it just about every day. There certainly were days where I had several. For me, it was just finally acknowledging that while they may or may not be bad for you, they definitely weren't good. My single biggest helpful hint was not keeping them in the house anymore. I'm a SAHM, and it was easy to grab them too often if they were in the fridge. I will have one if I'm out and it sounds really good, but that is naturally self-limiting. I keep iced tea in the fridge at all times, and Hint water, so if I just need something with flavor, I can have it.

you are a better woman than me.  i'm the same age.  same addiction.  lol.  try as i might, i can't kick it.  ok, i don't want to kick it because i hate iced tea and other flavored drinks out there.  if i found a suitable replacement, believe me, i would. 

I never considered myself a soda addict, but I did drink Diet Pepsi with dinner every night. I quit drinking anything carbonated over 10 years ago and never looked back! Just gave it up cold turkey one day after ordering a fast food meal that came with a ridiculously large soda. I didn't supersize or anything, just the drink that came with the meal. I drank like 2 inches of it and decided I wanted to give up soda and threw it away. In the beginning I just substituted water or iced tea whenever I'd normally drink soda and days turned into weeks which turned into months. I will say your taste buds do change, after like 6 months I had a sip of soda and it tasted like poison! I have no desire to ever drink soda again. It's gross.

Diet Mountain Dew is my drink of choice and I have had a really hard time giving it up. I have other drinks that I like but I still end up going back. This summer I stopped drinking it for about 6 weeks but one at a wedding led to drinking it all of the time again. I need to stop for good. It doesn't ever get to where I think it tastes gross (even when I gave it up during pregnancies). I wish it would.

I quit soda about 5 years ago, and my drug of choice was a Route 44 diet coke from sonic, daily. I did not have any withdrawls from the diet coke itself, because I promptly substituted that w/ tea. Shortly after that I gave up all processed food, which was hard (not withdrawl wise, but because that means you have to cook everything lol) I recently fave up sugar and that had the biggest impact on my health. I am your age and have RA.

I’ stopped drinking DC about 2 years ago. I was still craving it for about a year. I didn’t have one though. I do now have one every now and then (maybe 3-5/yr) and still love every sip of it. It hasn’t become gross tasting to me. And I didn’t lose any weight or feel any different after I quit. Oh well.

I only had one a day and yes it was hard not to cave in but I did it. You can too! Just make up your mind and go for it. I’m sure you’ll feel so much better!

When I hit my 50th birthday I decided to get healthy. I was 186 pounds and sick of being fat and feeling terrible. The first thing I did was quit my addiction to Diet Coke. I quit cold turkey and switched to water. In my house we have well water so when we moved in 22 years ago we noticed the previous owner had a water cooler and got water delivery with 5 gallon water jugs of spring water. We've continued this. It is amazing tasting water. Quitting cold turkey in my opinion is the best way to quit because while it may be difficult for the first couple of weeks, after that your cravings do taper off and after the first month those cravings are gone. If you never touch soda again you will start to crave water instead. This is what your body needs and wants. I think water tastes amazing now-so much better than Diet Coke ever did. 

Another thing you might try is to put lemon slices or orange slice in your water if you really miss some flavor. This all natural idea is healthy and a lot of people love to do this. I would suggest doing it this way rather that buying the overpriced "flavored or essence" water that is being sold. It's much healthier to take a real lemon or orange and slice it than to buy a flavored water product-if in doubt read the label and see what's really in it-probably a lot cheaper too. 

There is a page on the web about "25 practical uses for Coca-Cola, Proof it should not be in human body"  and one of them is clean your toilet. If it is that caustic can you imagine what it is doing to inside our bodies? I'm so sorry I can't do links on this computer, maybe someone else can link it for me? 

I wish you great success OP as you go forward in your quest. I know you can do this!  Read that webpage and it will inspire you. 
 

Anxiety attacks caused me to switch to caffeine free Diet Coke, because I couldn’t get it everywhere I switched to seltzer and haven’t looked back. I had one Diet Coke this summer and had heart palpitations for two days after.

I gave it up years ago, but then got addicted to Arizona Stress tea and added lemonade. Sooo much sugar- gave that up 2 years ago. Now it's just water and butter coffee and occasionally alcohol.

I don't really know what a 'butt load of water is ' ( Ihave heard the term boat load before) -  but a butt load of water just sounds really gross.....  Just struck me

Ha!  At least 8 glasses a day.  I think anything that doesn't make me truly happy gets the adjective butt.  And the filters though my body quickly, so maybe butt load IS a good descriptive word.