Did you make a new year's resolution?
Did you make a new year's resolution?
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PositronicRay

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28,683 posts

207 months

Friday 3rd February 2023
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If you did, how's it going?

anonymous-user

78 months

Friday 3rd February 2023
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Nope and it's going well thanks, you?

P-Jay

11,291 posts

215 months

Friday 3rd February 2023
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Yes,

It sounds crazy, but for as long as I can remember, well over a decade, I've been addicted to Diet Cola, and when I say addicted I mean addicted. I've previously smoked, drank too much and had a bit of a habit for Cocaine and MDMA, but they were all far easier to 'kick'.

If I didn't drink about a litre of the stuff (Pepsi Max being my tipple, and the choice of the hardcore 'Pop heads') by 9am I'd get a blinding headache that no supermarket pain killer could touch and by lunchtime I'd have stomach cramps and unable to concentrate or sometimes hold a conversation. My average intake was about 4 litres a day but could be higher. I have tried it least a dozen times to quit.

This time it's going well, I've had to wean myself off, I'm down to 500ml a day now, midday, but from Monday I'm stopping all together. I'm not quitting caffeine per se, but switching to the more socially acceptable, far cheaper and less ruinous for your teeth Tea, from an addiction point of view it feels about a hard a hit as paracetamol does to a coke head, but it's what I've got.

Jasandjules

72,034 posts

253 months

Friday 3rd February 2023
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Never have, never will.

Punctilio

827 posts

47 months

Sunday 5th February 2023
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My annual resolution to remain celibate continues, womenkind and mankind
are equally resolute in doing absolutely nothing to dissuade me.

Sheets Tabuer

21,057 posts

239 months

Sunday 5th February 2023
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I said I wouldn't post on here, it's going well.