Mtn Dew withdrawal

I definitely got cranky cutting out caffeine. Try hot tea for a small caffeine hit to help you wean off. I do find ice water can help give me that pep hit.

I kicked a hardcore Diet Dr. Pepper habit a few years ago. It was hard as hell, but I kept after it and kept trying thru several failures. Made my life a lot better in the long run.

Keep doing it gradually. Aspirin can help with the headaches for some people.

Mountain Dew was my favorite soda. Before I quit, I'd have 2-3 a day. I just quit cold turkey when I decided to start loosing weight. Luckily for me I didn't have any headaches to deal with. Do you drink other kinds of caffine? Do you like tea? That may help. Have you tried diet dew? Are you just trying to cut out the calories from it or soda all together? Since January I've only had one small can of dew on a cheat day. It was so good, but I only allowed myself the one. Good luck kicking the habit. As another poster suggested aspirin will help with any headaches from withdrawals you may get.

For me it was sweet tea. I've given it up and the first week was terrible. I cut that and sweets out for 30 days back in January. I had a headache, felt achy. Now I occasionally have sweets but rarely drink calories. It has definitely helped with my weight loss.

You can get down to one bottle same way that you got down to 2. Just keep backing it off. Slow is ok if you want to avoid the headaches. When you get down to one bottle, switch to warm, flat diet mt. dew. Or switch to warm, flat diet something else that you don't really like to drink. Take a swig when you need to (carry it around with you). Tylenol helps, too. drink tons of water. Morning workouts might make you feel better, too.

Different people react differently to caffeine, so you may have few or no withdrawal symptoms. For me, I'm down to one or two diet cokes or unsweet iced teas a day, but if I miss one? Massive migraine incoming. My husband drinks a ridiculous amount of Mt. Dew- probably a liter+ a day (he's very active in the military and not on a calorie restriction), but if we're somewhere where we can't get any for a few days? He's fine. No headaches or crankiness.

I find excedrin (which has a dose of caffeine in it) is helpful for those occasions I wind up with a withdrawal headache. If you are very sensitive to caffeine, veeeery gradual decrease is the way to go- when you get down to one bottle, try half of it in the morning and half at night, etc.

And agreed with the advice from mccraee about making it less appetizing if you want to break the psychological addiction as well as the physical dependence. A warm flat soda will prevent a headache, but will ruin the appeal.

Try Mello Yello Zero. Tastes very good for a diet drink and can help you avoid the caffeine withdrawal.

I used to be hooked on Mtn. Dews too! I did my withdrawal in steps. I cut down to two a day for a few weeks, then switched to the caffeinated diet Mtn. Dew for a few weeks (I had a hard time with the artificial sweetener in it). I now opt for Powerade original (sometimes I water it down), unsweetened tea, water, or coffee (with real sugar). One trick I use for caffeine headaches or just to give me a boost when I need it is Vivarin (caffeine pills). About the weight loss difference...maybe some but I'm sure I have made up for those calories in solid foods. .

The fantastic thing I found when giving up all soda was all the calories I freed up to eat real food. 150 cals a can, give or take, three cans a day was wasted calories. As soon as I realized that equated to a salmon fillet and a Greek salad, I was done with it. Caffeine and sugar headaches for me lasted four days. And there is some truth to cutting out all that sugar and feeling better because of it, I know I did.

I buy the tiny 8oz bottles and keep them in the pantry. I only put one in the fridge at a time and have managed the will power to only take a couple of drinks periodically to curb the craving. It can easily take me 2 or 3 days to drink 8 oz of my favorite carbonated soft drink.

I went cold turkey on sweet tea about 9 years ago. I switched to unsweetened, so I didn't have to give up the caffeine, but my addiction to sweet tea was serious. I struggled with cravings for NINE months straight, and then they got better. Once I got past it, I was really, really over it and now I don't want it at all. At all. But it was a long, hard, 9 months, and by about 6 months I was pretty sure I was never going to get over it. I decided I would give it a year and then re-evaluate. I'm so glad I did! I don't know if I had stopped ice tea all together if it would have taken more or less time to get past it. I think I had a lot of emotional stuff wrapped up in my tea drinking. I'm glad I did it, would absolutely do it again, and it was worth the discomfort to get past it. But it sure did take a lot longer than I ever imagined it would!

I gave up caffeine for both my pregnancies. The headaches only last for a few days. Ibuprofen helps.