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[KarishBHR]

Now I have chronic headaches, I almost feel sick. Apparently this is caffeine withdrawl, how long should it last for?

 

[ConfusingJazz]

A day or two, just drink lots of water and take some advil or something.

 

[Mr Gump]

You shouldnt of been drinking your grandfather in the first place.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

Yeah I experienced this today, must resist caffeiny goodness.

 

[maharg]

You know, it may not entirely be caffeine withdrawal. When you stop drinking pop, you're also taking in a lot less sugar.

It's best to quit one at a time. Either drink diet pop to cut down on sugar, or drink lots of juices and non-caffeinated pop (root beer, cream soda, orange, sprite/7up) to cut down on caffeine, then cut down altogether.

 

[explodet]

Yeah, I'm not caffeine addicted, but I do get the sugar cravings. If I'm trying to cut down on soft drinks, a glass or two of juice will help a lot.

 

[sefskillz]

yea, i had the headaches when i stopped drinking. i guess it lasted 4 days, but after that i was ace.

 

[KarishBHR]

You know, it may not entirely be caffeine withdrawal. When you stop drinking pop, you're also taking in a lot less sugar.

It's best to quit one at a time. Either drink diet pop to cut down on sugar, or drink lots of juices and non-caffeinated pop (root beer, cream soda, orange, sprite/7up) to cut down on caffeine, then cut down altogether.

I only drank diet pop, so its not sugar

 

[maharg]

strange, headaches should go away after you stop taking in nutrisweet

 

[rs7k]

Just headaches? Or do you also notice a change in mood (irritability, anxiety, etc)?

 

[SlickWilly223]

I'm down to one can of Mountain Dew every other day.

That's good.





It's too bad that I finish off a bottle of Jack every Friday or Saturday.

That's not good.

 

[xsarien]

strange, headaches should go away after you stop taking in nutrisweet

Well, caffeine has the added bonus of also calming (to varying degrees) headaches.

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

...

 

[Firest0rm]

What? i never experienced any headaches when i quit pop for 3 weeks. Why would you get headaches?

 

[JackFrost2012]

IT IS NO LONGER 1933
STOP SAYING POP

 

[sureshooting]

I get a headache if I stop drinking Pepsi for one hour.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

Pop? POP?!?

*leaves in disgust*

IA...er, that is...ditto?

 

[Mega Man's Electric Sheep]

What is with all the hate for "POP"? That's what it's called. That's what everyone I've ever met in my life calls it. What else, pray tell, would you call it? Soda? That's soda pathetic.

Oh, and by the way....

http://www.popvssoda.com/

 

[demon]

Who the fuck calls it "soda"? What are you, some kid from the 1950s?

 

[FortNinety]

I stopped drinking soda five years ago. Haven't had a drop ever since (wasn't easy since I was a diehard 3 liter a day drinker). But it was well worth it. I lost like 10 pounds in two weeks just because.

 

[xsarien]

I stopped drinking soda five years ago. Haven't had a drop ever since (wasn't easy since I was a diehard 3 liter a day drinker). But it was well worth it. I lost like 10 pounds in two weeks just because.

I'm not that die hard. During the day, I'll drink water (or alternatively, some form of juice - real stuff, not Snapple), but at night I'll have a glass or two of soda with dinner. But that's a step up from where I was, so I just look at it as a few baby steps.

 

[Drensch]

I quit pop for a month or so every once in awhile. Once I had a small headache for a day or so, but I haven't since. I didn't have any discernable change in weight thought.

 

[olimario]

I've cut back, but the headaches were there when I started.
And I call almost all soda by name.

Get me a sprite.
Get me a coke.
Get me a dr. pepper.

As a whole, we call all soda "coke".

 

[Drexon]

I stopped drinking pop and I lost weight.

 

[Dyne]

I can imagine people calling Pop "Soda", but I still can't wrap my mind around the idea of calling it "Coke."

I don't have a caffeine or sugar addiction. However, exercise addiction.. Now those are some good chemicals.

 

[olimario]

I can imagine people calling Pop "Soda", but I still can't wrap my mind around the idea of calling it "Coke."

I don't have a caffeine or sugar addiction. However, exercise addiction.. Now those are some good chemicals.

I dont understand 'pop' for the life of me. I know the roots, but it just sounds so bad.
I think soda is the common ground.

 

[Joe]

i think ive heard one person MAYBE two people in my entire existance call it "pop".

 

[jiggle]

I've been able to cut down from a daily double gulp(64oz) to 3 cans a day(36oz), to the current 2 cans a day(24oz) over the past year. Lately I'm even having trouble finishing up that second can. Who'd knew it's possible after all these years.


I had the headache too. And the constant feeling of thirst that water can't quench, and the nonstop craving for sweets.

 

[Joe]

what the hell? there's like a sever caffeine addiction problem on these boards. i have two cans max, usually 1 can a day and its all caffeine free stuff.

BUY CAFFEINE FREE SODA PEOPLE

 

[Kon Tiki]

I was never a heavy pop drinker. I always drank water, even if it meant to drinking tap water. This last year I have been drinking a lot of pop. When I tried to stop I found it took longer to fall asleep and harder to get out of bed.

 

[Pachinko]

I always thought it was canadians who say pop and americans say soda. I always call them pop myself.

 

[Naked Snake]

?

 

[Drozmight]

OMG. That'd scare the shit out of me.

 

[Belfast]

S-O-D-A

SO-DA

SODA!!!!

 

[JackFrost2012]

I call it "coke," but I can accept "soda" as a viable alternative word.

"pop" is just wrong.

 

[El Papa]

Soda, unless it's Coke, then I call it Coke.

 

[dem]

Pop you fools...


I cant understand people who drink like 5 cokes a day. Ugh. Its so heavy and sugary and sticky. I really only drink pop when I have no other options.

 

[Kon Tiki]

I call it "coke," but I can accept "soda" as a viable alternative word.

"pop" is just wrong.

How so? Soda is short for Soda Pop.

Around here, I only hear it called pop or soft drinks.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

What is with all the hate for "POP"? That's what it's called. That's what everyone I've ever met in my life calls it. What else, pray tell, would you call it? Soda? That's soda pathetic.

Oh, and by the way....

http://www.popvssoda.com/

pop: 66866
soda: 63930
coke: 31094

Pop wins!

 

[Claus]

pop: 66866
soda: 63930
coke: 31094

Pop wins!

Do US only. Canada doesn't count.

 

[Cool]

I could never stop drinking soda.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

It's a regional thing. Pop is Midwestern, Soda is East Coast. I don't know where California falls.

After 5 years in Michigan and 10 years in Chicago, my wife is firmy converted to "pop."

But both of us gave up drinking it.

Good luck, and one way to help give it up is to look for why you frink it (probably the rush) and find a better way to deal with that need.

 

[EdLuva]

It's a regional thing. Pop is Midwestern, Soda is East Coast. I don't know where California falls.

After 5 years in Michigan and 10 years in Chicago, my wife is firmy converted to "pop."

But both of us gave up drinking it.

Good luck, and one way to help give it up is to look for why you frink it (probably the rush) and find a better way to deal with that need.

It is regional, but I'm from Pennsylvania and I grew up saying pop until I moved to Alabama. Everyone here calls it soda. I think "pop" is also a northeastern thing, too.

 

[Drey1082]

Chicago is definitely pop country. That's what I've called it basically all my life.

 

[luxsol]

It's "soda" in California. If you say "pop" you're looked upon as being a redneck/backwards country hick. It's like people who say "y'all". It maybe correct, but it's still old fashioned.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Parts of Pennsylvania are more like the midwest than the east, speech-wise. Ditto upsate NY. People from Buffalo sound just like people from Michigan, in my experience.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

It's "soda" in California. If you say "pop" you're looked upon as being a redneck/backwards country hick. It's like people who say "y'all". It maybe correct, but it's still old fashioned.

I don't see how 'soda' is any less old-fashioned than 'pop' seeing as they are both derived from 'soda pop'.

 

[Diomedeskun]

As a whole, we call all soda "coke".

Do you live in Georgia as well? Land where the Coke flows like water, where the great red can rules from its seat of power in Cokelanta.

 

[olimario]

I don't see why 'Coke' is so wrong.
We call tissue paper 'Kleenex'.
We call adhesive medical strips 'band-aids'.

 

[xsarien]

I don't see why 'Coke' is so wrong.
We call tissue paper 'Kleenex'.
We call adhesive medical strips 'band-aids'.

Calling it "Coke" at a restauarant causes a lot more confusion than mixing up, say, Kleenex and Puffs.

"Gimme a Coke."
"What kind?"
"...Coke."
"We only have Pepsi, is that OK?"