User Forty2 made a great comment and I agree with so much of that.

Do not focus on stopping a behavior. Focus on slowly moving into a new behavior until the old one slowly disappears.

You can use transitional steps. What I did, was to change from regular soda to diet, and I did it by slowly mixing diet into the sugar until the proportions had reversed. And eventually you got to the point where it was mostly diet. There, I successfully changed to diet soda, I didn’t do it overnight, I took a month to do it and it was easy that way.

This applies in all areas of your sugar consumption.

For example, if you’re taking two measured tablespoons of sugar in each coffee… Start by reducing that amount by 7%. Yes, literally that small amount… But you layer one change on top of the next, on top of the next, once you have some success. It will take you literally 3 days to get used to the smaller amount of sugar, and you’ll barely notice it… And once that feels good, you reduce my another 7%

If you want something to replace soda and don’t want artificial sweeteners, flavored carbonated water can scratch that itch. There’s some that are low sugar and some that are no sugar. They have some really interesting flavors, too. La Croix is not a great brand, in my opinion.

It’s a bit of pop science to say that nutrisweet and other artificial sweeteners produce the same insulin response as sugar, but that’s not what the data indicates.

The response is consistently lower.

So my recommendation is to switch to diet soda, assuming the sugary drinks you’re drinking are sodas.

If they’re fruit juices, I would recommend relaxing them with smoothies. The fiber in a smoothie slows the absorption of the sugar, resulting in less of a blood glucose spike.

I like to mix soda water with good Apple cider 50/50 then add lemon and ginger to taste (about a teaspoon of each per pint works for me).

Black decaffeinated coffee for me. Sometimes real coffee.