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"A 38-year-old man has revealed the full extent of his addiction to Diet Coke. Darren Jones drinks an average of 42 litres of the fizzy drink every week, the equivalent of 18 cans per day. The Stockport-based father-of-two, who weighs 35 stone, hopes a spell in rehab will end his habit for the sake of his health and relationship with wife Paula. Jones told The Mirror: &amp;quot;I believe what I have is an actual addiction and I start to worry if I&amp;#039;m getting near the end of the bottle. If I can&amp;#039;t get in touch with Paula to get me some more I start to panic - it&amp;#039;s like a drug or alcohol addiction. &amp;quot;I called up Diet Coke to ask them if it&amp;#039;s addictive and what I should do and she recommended putting water in it to dilute it, but it would taste horrid and I don&amp;#039;t think it would help. We joke that I should get one of those hats with bottles either side of my head and straws straight into my mouth so I can drink it all the time. It&amp;#039;s like gold, it&amp;#039;s my fuel. &amp;quot;I would love to go into a rehab centre or boot camp or somewhere remote where I couldn&amp;#039;t get my hands on Diet Coke. As soon as I had the money to do it, a spell in rehab would be the first thing I&amp;#039;d spend it on.&amp;quot; He went on: &amp;quot;What&amp;#039;s worrying is the addiction gets so bad I did admit I would find it difficult to choose between my Diet Cola and Paula if I was told I could only take one item to a desert island. &amp;quot;If I kicked the habit, I&amp;#039;d be very moody and even sick going cold turkey but it would be worth it for my Paula. At the moment I just feel like I&amp;#039;m a big bag of water I&amp;#039;m so full of fluid, so in 2012 things need to change, I need to go on a Diet Coke detox.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Man seeks help over sausage addiction &amp;gt; Pet snake addicted to smoking "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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