Quit soda - when will the cravings stop??

I've quit before, but keep going back! I also drink a ton of water everyday, but I still need it. Good luck to you!

I gave up soda four years ago...well, I have one every once in awhile...maybe like six per year or something...at any rate, I started drinking bubbly water. I have a soda stream at home and I just make bubbly water...sometimes I put in a squeeze of lemon or lime and sometimes I make a "mocktail" with a little splash of fruit juice.

I gave up soda and coffee 2 months ago. I don't find that I crave soda itself just the carbonation. I usually keep some sparkling water on hand, so if I find myself craving it I have some in hand.

Carbonated water and fruit juice? Just for the fizz?

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Water water water and subbing green smoothies in the mornings when I need a boost have helped me. Soda and sweet tea seems to give me a stomach ache now.

I quit it cold turkey about two months ago.. After about four days the headaches went away I was a huge coke fan and had a min of 2/3 a day.. I craved them for about three weeks just because I felt like everyone around me was drinking them lol.. Now I don't even desire them at all I realized after beginning to count calories that I was drinking most of my calories each day plus some with food.
I feel so much more energized and I actually feel healthy.
Get past a couple weeks and it will get better! If your 7 days into it you might as well keep it up!! Good luck!!

I used to drink around a liter (or more) a day. I've been trying to cut back and something that's helped me is setting a goal that every Sunday I can have one glass of pop. I look forward every week to that one glass and on the rough days at work I'll stop and think "Only X number of days until my one glass." Over the past few weeks when Sunday rolls around I don't even drink my alloted one cup because I made it this far without it and I know I can continue to fight off the craving. Sometime having the security net of a moment when you can drink it has helped me mentally fight off the temptation to drink. GODD LUCK!

I used to drink loads of fizzy pop, a bottle or two a week plus a small bottle every day or two whilst at work.
I just stopped, didn't buy it when at home anymore and didn't buy it when at work, it wasn't even for health reasons, I just decided it was a waste of money.

I can't remember the last time that I had a fizzy (non alcoholic) drink, I'm guessing it would have been 4 or 5 weeks ago when I went round to my mom and dads.

I suppose I'm lucky that I just quit it that easily

I also believe in allowing all things in moderation...BUT I do believe that some people have that trigger food, and mine is Soda. I mostly stopped drinking Soda a few years ago due to pregnancy, but will get a craving every now and then. What I've learned for ME, is that Diet Coke is worse than regular, and what I mean by that is, that when I used to get a craving for soda, I would buy a 1.5 or 2 liter bottle of diet because it was a lot cheaper than the smaller ones, and I didn't want to consume all the calories, but I couldn't just stop at the one bottle. I would usually end up drinking 3 or 4 of them (in a week) because the craving was just triggered. After about a week, I would feel like total crap, headaches, body aches, and I would once again...have to quit cold turkey. Not a fun cycle. Most recently I decided to allow myself a 12oz can of Coke once a week on the day that I do a big workout. Well...that didn't really go over so well either, it triggered me to drink 4 cans that week, but 4 cans of regular coke is still better than 4 huge bottles of diet coke (in my opinion) and I didn't feel like crap. So I am still doing my best to figure out a way to enjoy my most favorite treat, while keeping it under control. It really is an individual process that only you will be able to do to figure out what works for you. My only advice, stick to the regular stuff...no calories sounds good, but from my experience, it messes with your system (my system) a whole lot more than sugar does. Good luck in figuring out what works for you!!

I'm trying to remember if I have cravings for Coke. Nope. When I was living with my parents back in the 1970's I asked and they provided sugar-free Dr Pepper and Tab. I switched to coffee, with fake sweetener, after I moved out and ditched the fake sweetener a few years later. I would sometimes share my wife's large Coke at the movies, but my preference is to avoid the slimy aftertaste of it.