"They may be better than cold turkey, but of course cold turkey is not an effective way to quit," Soneji says.
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If you have a Mac, SelfControl and Cold Turkey and are two free (or inexpensive) apps for shutting out online distractions; Cold Turkey has Windows and Android versions as well.
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He quit cold turkey, then stuffed his nose with cocaine.
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That's the thing about me: I can go cold turkey.
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I don't think I could have done this cold turkey.
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When he turned sixteen, he quit them all cold turkey.
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He had to quit, and quit he did — cold turkey.
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" Then he added, "but don't try to go cold turkey.
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Once he's locked up, he's forced off the drugs cold turkey.
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They got high one last time and then quit cold turkey.
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HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - China's real estate cold turkey risks withdrawal.
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Willett doesn't suggest that meat eaters must quit eating animals cold turkey.
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It's a cold turkey detox from the tech that runs the world.
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"You never, ever recommend that someone stop cold turkey," Dr. Maust said.
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Cold turkey is the withered flesh of a beast raised for slaughter.
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Gibson tried to quit cold turkey, but the withdrawal symptoms overwhelmed him.
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We will not go 'cold turkey' or forbid cell phones to our children.
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For other stars, the break is really a chance to go cold turkey.
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But, like Pfingsten, they can't seem to quit their news consumption cold turkey.
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You got off painkillers going cold turkey, by yourself, in a motor home?
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He says he wanted to get back on track -- by quitting ... cold turkey.
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For others, it means going cold turkey on spending for an entire year.
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Last year, I came to this realization and I quit drinking cold turkey.
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Clozapine, an antipsychotic, can be particularly dangerous to go off of cold-turkey.
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If you're getting sucked into social media, you'd need to stop cold turkey.
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But going cold turkey is what works best, at least in the beginning.
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I knew if I didn't stop cold turkey I would never stop using it.
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I cut it cold turkey, and it's been three and a half months clean.
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He needs to go on a slight twitter diet, but not go cold turkey.
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Take it step by step You don't have to go into this cold turkey.
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"Tried to go cold turkey, and that wouldn't work," Petty said in the book.
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A cold turkey Christiane F. writhing on a bed, fighting her boyfriend for heroin.
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So my wife and I went cold turkey for one month: no added sweeteners.
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"I don't believe you can do this cold turkey," Smith said earlier this year.
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He quit cold turkey, around 1987, but spent several more years addicted to cocaine.
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But a new study suggests it wouldn't that easy to shun Twitter cold-turkey.
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Once I unearthed my alarm clock, though, I quit my phone-based alarm cold turkey.
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So I decided that the best thing for me is to simply quit cold turkey.
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You might need to alter your behavior, but you don't want to quit cold turkey.
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To do otherwise would essentially subject markets and banks to a cold turkey cut-off.
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Speaking of Toby, he's having withdrawal symptoms because of going off his antidepressants cold turkey.
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I went cold turkey on the first day of police academy from using painkillers again.
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And yet, even after everything I've detailed above, I still can't quit Morrissey cold turkey.
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Quitting cold turkey is especially hard if you exercise a lot or are just sweaty.
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Plum decides to do this cold turkey, and as a result, she begins to hallucinate.
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A lot of the inmates, including myself, had to kick the smoking habit cold-turkey.
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Even the terrifying hallucinations of cold-turkey heroin withdrawal are set over a raucous soundtrack.
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Was it painful to go cold turkey on all the junk food and delicious grease?
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He'd tried methadone, detox and rehab programs, buprenorphine, and cold-turkey in empty motel rooms.
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When I realized how problematic this was, I decided to quit calorie counting cold turkey.
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Cut back correctly Going cold turkey is tough and may set you up for failure.
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Cold turkey only lasted so long before lingering, months-long withdrawal symptoms sent him running back.
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"This gives you the ability to test-drive retirement, as opposed to cold turkey," Hopkins said.
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Here's how to get strategic, rather than going cold turkey, when it comes to spending habits.
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For others, it means going cold turkey and liberating yourself from the rubbery shackle for good.
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They can't quit him cold turkey and, frankly, I bet I won't be able to either.
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He cut off all contact with me, cold turkey, and wouldn't discuss our relationship at all.
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After about two years on Subsys, Cantone says, she took herself off the drug cold turkey.
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And yet, perhaps there's never been an easier time to go cold turkey on other people.
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Go cold turkey every once in awhile, if only to prove to yourself you are capable.
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But the end of it doesn't mean you have to quit its compelling noir vibe cold-turkey.
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This month, I quit coffee cold turkey during the work week and have been drinking tea instead.
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When you quit cold turkey, without the support of a program, guidance, or help from sober people.
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But, Thomas says, quitting your inbox cold turkey could make life more stressful when you come back.
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But if you are a heavy drinker, you should talk to your doctor before going cold turkey.
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Most smokers take the cold-turkey approach, trying to throw away their cigs and never look back.
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She's not a fussy girl; I know she'd be fine if I switched her back cold turkey.
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Now she's trying to quit drugs cold turkey, but Litchfield isn't exactly a stress-free rehab clinic.
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Dr. Rosen says that he's seen people try to quit checking their social media notifications cold-turkey.
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If you can't quit cold-turkey, slowly decrease the amount of caffeinated beverages you consume each day.
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But quitting alcohol cold-turkey is not necessarily the most realistic plan of action for some people.
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The effects of going off benzos cold turkey (as opposed to tapering) are legendary in their awfulness.
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When Coltrane quit heroin cold turkey in 196186, the years of obsessive practicing erupted in his playing.
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In practice this meant going cold turkey on all social networks and most news and media sites.
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"I've always found that going cold turkey is the best way to cut out sugar," says Alpert.
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However, Sindwani says there are alternatives to going either cold turkey or gradually weaning yourself off oxymetazoline.
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You don't have to sign up for a digital detox or go cold turkey like I did.
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But a new study suggests that you might have more success going cold turkey than you think.
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So well that I took myself off the medication and therapy cold turkey before my senior year.
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I'm not suggesting anything radical like quitting social media; I'm suggesting going cold turkey on the Like button.
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After trying to go cold turkey last week, I found myself running to a store at 2 a.m.
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But instead of quitting cold turkey, we decided to try an alternative method: making copycat versions at home.
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But I have also heard from readers who want to consume less sugar without first going cold turkey.
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But Dr. Goodman cautioned against going off the drug cold turkey because there can be unpleasant withdrawal symptoms.
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Sixteen days before "American Buffalo" rehearsals started, worried about being able to breathe, he quit cigarettes cold turkey.
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Cold turkey might not work for everyone, so find a way that feels right and stick with it.
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And never stop your medication cold turkey — you should taper your medication under the care of a psychiatrist.
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The one big difference is that all those other things, it's possible to quit those things cold turkey.
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I've found gum, lozenges, or cold turkey to be more more reliable methods, but everyone has their own preference.
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Obagi says you should stop using it cold turkey —even in the winter — and wait three to six weeks.
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Riddhi explained that their jobs made it impossible to just give up screens cold turkey once a baby arrived.
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Because he was out on bail, he was sent to jail immediately, where he had to go cold turkey.
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When cutting back on sodium, it's important to start slowly, as going cold turkey can shock your taste buds.
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If someone quits heroin cold turkey, they're going to quickly lose the tolerance they developed over years of use.
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It was not easy, but he quit alcohol cold turkey that day and has not had a drop since.
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Although older smokers don't seem to have a harder time than others, stopping cigarettes cold-turkey only rarely works.
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Even if I had managed to make it through cold-turkey withdrawals, she could have died in the process.
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This means that many inmates are left to kick opioids cold turkey, which can be deadly without appropriate care.
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For frequent drinkers, she added, cutting out alcohol cold turkey can also increase feelings of vulnerability in social situations.
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The German native quit coffee and alcohol cold turkey and then he wanted to push himself to hit one year.
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Quitting opioids cold turkey is dangerous for the infant and could increase the risk of preterm labor or fetal death.
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I can't promise that I'll go cold turkey today or tomorrow or even next year, but I could pick less.
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Ali had quit smoking cigarettes cold turkey before he picked up Juul, so he figured he could quit vaping too.
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Going cold turkey is also dangerous because it creates a high risk that the mom will relapse and accidentally overdose.
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There is huge variability in how people respond to food, and for some — myself included — going cold turkey is counterproductive.
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I spoke to a former benzo user who'd quit cold turkey, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity.
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Opioid withdrawal is an excruciating process, so when the doctor stops prescribing, going cold turkey doesn't seem like an option.
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If you're trying to drink less coffee, you might go cold turkey instead of downsizing to one cup a day.
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Back in October, I somewhat impulsively decided to go cold turkey on takeout for two weeks and write about it.
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I ended up going cold turkey and, after a few uncomfortable days and nights of mouth-breathing, the situation improved.
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The freelancers we surveyed agreed that it's not smart to go cold turkey when making the transition to independent work.
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It's brain sugar and I think if people tried to quit cold turkey they would see that it's an addiction.
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What started as a tiny doubt has become a big question: Is quitting opioids cold turkey really the only way?
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Other doctors and researchers don't necessarily recommend cannabis, but no expert that I spoke with recommends quitting opioids cold turkey.
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Patients who tried to quit cold turkey faced extreme restlessness, irritability, insomnia, muscle tension, racing heartbeats and other debilitating symptoms.
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Once you take sugar away from your diet cold turkey, your palate recalibrates, and you start tasting natural sugars again.
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" And on the topic of ending the dad jokes once he leaves office: "No way I'm cutting this habit cold turkey.
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For the most hardcore anti-smoking advocates of the 2000s, it was often a puritanical adherence to cold turkey or nothing.
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Storey, who lives in Louisville, Kentucky, and is now an auto technician, said he tried quitting cold turkey a few times.
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Patients at the clinic are not supposed to go cold turkey, but they have no drugs to help ease withdrawal symptoms.
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But he had already tried everything—chewing nicotine gum, slapping on the patch, going cold turkey—and none of it worked.
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"No way I'm cutting this habit cold turkey," Obama said to laughs and groans during a ceremony at the Rose Garden.
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Although some studies have seen no difference between the methods, others suggest that going cold turkey could yield higher success rates.
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" When Evans started her No Spend Year, she says she cut out virtually all superfluous spending all at once, "cold turkey.
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Faced with a choice of going cold turkey or continuing to smoke many smokers will and do opt for the latter.
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Some percentage of people who've taken benzos for more than a few weeks can stop cold turkey and have no problems.
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You can advise a person to quit heroin cold turkey, but what do you tell them if they're addicted to food?
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The former CFO is not returning to day-to-day work cold turkey — he joined Twitter's board of directors last year.
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But many doctors give smokers conflicting advice on the ideal length of time they should go cold turkey before their operations.
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Go ahead and shake your fist at the person who cut Chris Messina's hours (no doubt Messina himself), then go cold turkey.
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So, while taking a few days off from work at the beginning of the year, I decided to go cold turkey ... ish.
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If you stop alcohol cold turkey after developing a dependence to it, you'll end up in the hospital, sometimes in the ICU.
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One of the main things with addicts is that we have to understand that cutting them off cold turkey is not helpful.
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But there aren't enough solid studies to show that it's better than nicotine gum or going cold turkey to kick the habit.
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"I was drinking three to four Code Reds a day, and I just went cold turkey that day," Shannon tells People Now.
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Life improved for a short while, but going cold turkey alone with no salutary guidance was a lonely road full of obstacles.
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"I used to smoke and stopped cold turkey and never touched a cigarette since and it's been over 40 years," Eriksen said.
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If going cold turkey is too politically scary for the Republicans, phasing the subsidies out over time is an acceptable second option.
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"If chocolate is a common binge food, instead of going cold-turkey, enjoy this food daily to reduce its desirability," Soutter recommended.
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While going cold turkey is hard, it is rewarding to walk without texting and to talk to the person across the table.
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WATCH: Cold Turkey – New Hampshire's Prison Detox The art class I signed up for was, by contrast, a daily oasis of calm.
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I'm over it now, but that's more because of the Xbox's crappy dashboard layout, I suspect, than any determined cold-turkey campaign.
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The reality is that it is costing the health care system $200-$300 to provide a patient with a cold turkey sandwich.
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"I don't want to go cold turkey and leave these people without anything," she said, noting some edibles markets are shutting down.
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When I quit drinking, I did it cold turkey because I feared I would imminently die if I didn't change my behavior.
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That's why quitting opioids cold turkey rarely works, and why more and more people are looking to medication-assisted treatment for help.
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In 1969 in Greenfield, Iowa, he filmed "Cold Turkey," a satire about the influence of tobacco he considers among his best work.
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To be fair, there are certain circumstances where it's totally warranted for you to end things cold turkey, without communicating how you feel.
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I tried to stop cold turkey (this is not doctor recommended), but the withdrawal pains were unbelievable and almost too much to handle.
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Heroin addicts— "anti-social elements," as they're called—are expected to quit cold-turkey, perhaps in one of the jail-like "treatment" centers.
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Cho says the trouble with smartphone addiction is there's no easy fix, because it's not realistic to ask someone to go cold turkey.
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It can ease our addiction, interrupting our habit of compulsive notification-checking and anxious screen-glancing without the pain of going cold turkey.
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I went cold turkey to eat hot turkey: no therapy dog, no weaving therapy, no yoga, no acupuncture, no meditation, no cry-in.
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While there's no doubt that some patients need to be completely sober, quitting cold turkey isn't a bender be all and end all.
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Watch this from Tonic: But once any immediate consequences of stopping cold-turkey have passed, things will still vary from person to person.
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Flake worried that Congress would be unable to eliminate the benefit cold turkey, allowing it to bleed red ink for years to come.
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Watch "Cold Turkey: New Hampshire's Prison Detox" Read "The Golden Age of Drug Trafficking: How Meth, Cocaine, and Heroin Move Around the World"
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Dr. Aguh doesn't ask her patients to go cold turkey on a hairstyle because such a regimen is too difficult to stick to.
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During each of her three subsequent pregnancies, Cynthia quit the pills cold turkey; after the babies were born, she drifted back into using.
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Opting out the rat race is complicated But just because a system feels broken, doesn't mean it's possible to quit it cold turkey.
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I've been to rehabs that insist patients detox cold-turkey and to others that tapered me off of opiates with Suboxone and Valium.
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I was drinking less than when I had started the treatment and going cold turkey on the electricity had diminished my zap cravings.
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"We're not saying you should go cold turkey — although eating turkey alone might be a good option, better than eating red meat," said Houlton.
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If you're Justin Bieber, who famously quit the app cold-turkey earlier this year, you show some skin to a stadium of screaming fans.
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To help with this transition we have picked seven especially precious live views, so you don't have to quit your animal voyeurism cold turkey.
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It's healthy to break the cycle and spend some time away from the socials, but going cold turkey too fast may cause digital whiplash.
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I needed A LOT of stuff to replace my usual tech giant devicesPhoto: Myra IqbalI don't think I could have done this cold turkey.
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The downside of trying to avoid using the first-person singular pronoun is that you can't go cold turkey without sounding like a maniac.
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So when I was asked whether or not I could quit my snooze button cold turkey for at least a week, I was nervous.
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I had even gone off of my antidepressants cold turkey, wanting my body to be free of those chemicals should I find myself pregnant.
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Wißfeld, for his part, pointed out that users don't have to go fully cold turkey when it comes to free and open source software.
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But then a doctor from the Russian Federation popped up and disagreed with everyone, arguing that cold turkey was the best way to go.
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There are two kinds of people in the world—those who can change cold turkey and those who need to gradually move the barometer over.
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Like any obsession (yes, those too-cheap prices and fast-moving trends can be addicting), it's not going to be easy to stop cold turkey.
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If you go cold-turkey, there's a chance you might feel a bit of alcohol withdrawal because you went so damn hard the entire time.
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I already wanted to cut down on the amount of time I spent mindlessly staring at my phone — I might as well go cold turkey.
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Love activates the same neurological reward centers as cocaine, and losing love can feel like going through withdrawal after quitting drugs or alcohol cold turkey.
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My experiences trying to ditch cigs—with Nicabate, Champix, and a few cold turkey attempts—have always ended with me feeling sick and giving up.
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While trying to go cold turkey is probably an overambitious goal, "mindfulness has been shown to be very effective in decreasing rumination," Dr. Bastin said.
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I'm a tech columnist, and while I don't begrudge anyone for trying more extreme forms of disconnection, my job prevents me from going cold turkey.
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It has been referred to as "the cigarettes of our generation," so I wanted to see what would happen if I cut it out, cold turkey.
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Even if you have the oiliest of skin — especially during the summer months — Dr. Idriss warns not to just cut out hydrating your skin cold turkey.
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In the gradual quit group, success rates at four weeks were 45.8% and 34.6% among those who had wanted to quit cold turkey or gradually, respectively.
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"It's not like you have to give up and go cold turkey—I just don't think that will work," Roberts says (and bless him for that).
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But based on its beta, Overwatch has been scratching the MOBA itch I've had ever since I made the call to quit Dota 2 cold turkey.
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Rather than cold-turkey a lifelong dependence on sides of fries, unhealthy food connoisseurs should focus on optimizing the health value of the foods we consume.
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I took them for several weeks postoperatively, in tapering doses, and then stopped "cold turkey," in order to return to my operating and on-call duties.
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While he hasn't been able to go smartphone-free, he has found that you don't need to go completely cold turkey to curb a tech addiction.
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But participants in one group were told to quit abruptly (cold turkey) while those in the other were told to quit gradually over those two weeks.
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He's the man behind One Day at a Time, Maude, Good Times, the underrated movie comedy Cold Turkey, and so many other films and TV shows.
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That can include taking public transportation rather than an Uber or other ride-sharing service or cooking at home and going cold turkey on eating out.
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"When I was done with college and stopped playing football I kept eating like a football player and pretty much cold turkey stopped working out," he says.
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" The two were frequent commercial pitchmen, regular guests on talk shows and played dueling TV anchormen, David Chetley and Walter Chronic, in the 1971 film "Cold Turkey.
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After that, I tried cold turkey several times and it was always a spectacular failure, with my cigarette-less time ranging from 30 minutes to six hours.
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YouTube, Netflix and other video players: You probably already know watching videos can blow through your data, but you don't have to cut yourself off cold turkey.
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So I quit cold turkey (okay, fine, cold turkeyish) for a week and replaced it with Mastodon, a decentralized, free and open source software version of Twitter.
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Devotees had to follow four calibrated stages, starting with quitting carbs cold-turkey, before methodically adding back the apples and brown rice (later variations are less structured).
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When coming off of Xanax, it's important to taper the dosage down gradually, as going cold turkey suddenly can cause side effects such as psychosis and seizures.
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Going cold turkey may seem initially daunting however, so Goodin suggests testing this out for a weekend or certain weekdays, which could cut hours of time spent online.
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When it's a choice between chowing down cold turkey balls or getting real about your co-stars' acting talent, there's really only one logical choice to be made.
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A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in March suggests that quitting cold turkey may be more effective than when smokers gradually wean themselves off cigarettes.
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Editor's note: This commentary was updated to clarify a passage on the danger of resuming the use of opioids, even at the same dosage, after "cold turkey" abstinence.
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"If I quit all the things I loved cold turkey, I knew it would only be so long before I went back to my old ways," he says.
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Here's this week's briefing: Going cold Turkey We've come a long way since your fist-bumping with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the NATO summit last month.
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Over the years the group has been accused of kidnapping addicts, chaining them up to make them go cold turkey, mob ties, and racism and xenophobia towards immigrants.
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Tillman went cold turkey—he even quit the Internet—and, at dawn on New Year's Day, 2014, they left Los Angeles in a U-Haul and drove east.
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Because few of us want to -- or can -- totally disconnect from the digital realm while parenting, I am not going to contemplate the idea of going cold turkey.
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Leaving a satisfying job cold-turkey for a life of leisure can be an abrupt jolt to people accustomed to feeling purposeful, earning money and enjoying their colleagues.
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She knows it's hard to go cold turkey from checking our phones constantly, so she offers some tips and advice to work up to a full day gadget-free.
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Perhaps Mr. Trump will, therefore, force our Arab friends to go cold turkey when they want us to act as their regional proxies in their blood feud with Iran.
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If we can acknowledge that no timer, no dashboard, no reminder to breathe or stand, could make the use of a smartphone "healthy," going cold turkey doesn't sound unreasonable.
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So finally I went cold turkey, and I called a friend to chaperone me, to be with me, to stop me if I tried to get past the door.
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They aren't going to vote for a repeal or a replacement bill that ends the Medicaid expansion cold turkey or even one that sunsets it over a few years.
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He gets an assist from Vivian, a would-be screen siren who gets Thaddeus addicted to sex and cocaine, then drops him cold turkey when the money runs out.
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George W. Bush quit alcohol cold turkey after his 40th birthday George W. Bush has been sober for several decades, but his reputation for drinking and partying is legendary.
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The holidays can push people to the brink of indulgence, and come January they need a clean-cut, cold-turkey break — a month to regain control of their food lives.
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Unlikely. Much like drinking and drug use, Brown says there are people for whom giving up the stuff cold-turkey just isn't effective and may actually be a bad idea.
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Because it's cute, and because it lets you have your phone number on a different phone, and because it might help you curb your smartphone habit without going cold turkey.
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When it came to kicking the smoking habit, there weren't enough randomized controlled trials to say how e-cigarettes stacked up against, say, nicotine gum or just going cold turkey.
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Even though we may be tired and losing our seasonal steam, that doesn't mean that we're ready to give in and cut out all those festively flavored goods cold turkey.
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Moreover, if they quit cold turkey and their tolerance plummets, they're more vulnerable to overdose if they relapse and try to shoot up what used to be their regular dose.
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I was a fan of Green Bay's team growing up, but when they finally came to play Carolina, they ignored me and I gave them up for Carolina, cold turkey!
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Lil Xan said he relapsed but what really scared him straight were the seizures he suffered ... the effects of quitting cold turkey in his attempt to beat his drug habit.
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Before embarking on this journey, I spoke with two registered dietitians to see if there was any risk of somehow harming myself by going cold turkey on everything at once.
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You may have overdone it by going cold turkey on your late wife: removing all pictures of her from your home and never talking about your marriage with your girlfriend.
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Ultimately, I knew it wasn't good for me, so decided to set myself a challenge to go cold turkey for a month to see if I actually noticed any difference.
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"Back when everybody was like, 'Diego's M.I.A., where's Diego at' and stuff, I was in the hospital cause I had stopped taking drugs cold turkey," he explained to the outlet.
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Rather than going cold turkey and deactivating everything permanently, Evans says you can put yourself on a one-month trial and see if any positive results are produced from that.
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But I found that I tend to replace old vices with new ones, and a fixation on sex quickly followed in the wake of my cold turkey change of lifestyle.
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"We have not found that it's effective with kids to drop them cold turkey into a sea of modules or components or technical details," says Pavlyukovskyy, a doctoral candidate at Oxford.
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Although the occasion marked his final Thanksgiving as President, Obama claimed he won't stop the tradition when he leaves office: "No way I am cutting this habit cold turkey," he joked.
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He has a serious girlfriend in Dorothy (Collette Wolfe), a job, and a fervent hope that going off his many, many prescriptions cold turkey will be the key to moving on.
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And if you're not willing to give up your go-to platform (or go cold-turkey and social-media-free), clearing your history and starting fresh seems like a reasonable compromise.
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While attempting to abruptly end his heavy use of Halcion, he "went cold turkey" but his body lapsed into a coma for "eight or nine hours" in a Los Angeles hospital.
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For those of you out there who have been able to go cold turkey with your microwave use post college life, when it and Easy Mac were necessary, I applaud you.
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Today, it's more likely that meat eaters, rather than quit cold turkey and become full-time vegetarians and vegans, employ a balanced approach by choosing more plant-based options when possible.
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HNB products could prove highly effective among smokers who still desire the taste and ritual of smoking but have failed to quit using traditional nicotine replacement therapy or going cold turkey.
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He knows vaping isn't ideal but he can't quite quit it; he tried to do so cold turkey last year, but the nicotine withdrawal gave him headaches and made him irritable.
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She ended up weaning herself off the drug, spreading her last three pills over six days to avoid having to go "cold turkey" before starting a difficult transition to an antidepressant.
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Eventually, the Everest doctors were able to ascertain the cause of Easterling's disorientation: after a month on dexamethasone, a powerful anti-inflammatory steroid, he had stopped taking the drug cold turkey.
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While the support and community they offer is undoubtedly helpful, several studies have found that the programs are no more effective at helping people get and stay sober than going cold turkey.
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We both average two to three cups a day, and going cold turkey sounded like torture, especially when we thought about the scientifically proven health benefits of coffee we'd be giving up.
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After years of substance abuse and attempts to quit cold-turkey, Luft claims that one day he searched Garland's bedroom, where she often spent evenings alone, to find evidence of drug use.
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Idea: Try drunkenly forgetting to take your socks off cold-turkey style and let me know how it feels in the morning when your alarm clock won't stop tugging at your toes.
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The center doesn't do soft landings, there's no methadone here -- the drug most often used in the West to ease withdrawal symptoms -- just the occasional anti-depressant, and lots of cold turkey.
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These devices are explicitly designed to be addictive, but because we rely on them for so many quotidian activities and tasks, quitting cold turkey would mean forfeiting a place in modern society.
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When a user relapses after "going cold turkey" (the protocol in an abstinence-based program), and then takes the same dose that he or she previously tolerated, that dose may prove fatal.
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"If I quit all the things I loved cold turkey, I knew it would only be so long before I went back to my old ways," he told Men's Health last August.
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"In 2003 I got pregnant and I quit cold turkey, but after having my daughter, I never lost all the weight I'd gained," the homemaker and part-time actress, 42, tells PEOPLE.
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In the abrupt quit group, rates of abstinence at four weeks were 58% among participants who had wanted to quit cold turkey, but only 42% among those who had preferred quitting gradually.
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"One of the implications [of this study] is we need to really get people to understand that quitting cold turkey is more effective, it kind of gets it over with," Eriksen said.
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And while I genuinely do need the occasional solo evening, away from social obligations and chores, giving up Seamless cold-turkey was one of the best decisions I've made in recent memory.
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Six in 10 smokers want to give up but most who try rely only on willpower -- or going "cold turkey" -- which is the least effective way to quit, the health body said.
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I wasn't exactly a fan of heroin withdrawal—I'd gone cold turkey about four times at this point—but dope sickness did not keep me from quitting during my rare attempts at it.
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"It's not something that I personally recommend in my practice because I think there are lots of ways to get a jumpstart on weight loss without going cold turkey with food," she explains.
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She'll give you the lowdown on all the different ways to go about quitting — are you going cold turkey, taking advantage of nicotine replacement options, or enlisting the help of a coaching app?
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But there's no need to go cold turkey, of course — here's a suite of stats and reminders to have a "healthy relationship" with your time-sucking pocket robot, because we're here to help.
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He'd been a chain-smoker all his life, going through as many as 80 cigarettes a day as a player, until he had a heart bypass surgery in 1991 and quit cold turkey.
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"Some are able to quit cold turkey but for other patients, it's such a stressful moment in their life that many feel hopeless, go in the other direction and keep smoking," she said.
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All of these elements are removed when a smoker tries to go cold turkey or uses something like the patch, but with vaping, they still get it, just with fewer chemicals and no combustion.
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Watch the VICE News documentary Cold Turkey: New Hampshire's Prison Detox: Among European officials, Russia's hard-line approach and the exploding number of drug users overlap with darker theories about the Kremlin's top leadership.
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KERN: But Dr. Drew, here is the thing about addiction, if you go cold turkey without giving your life over to a higher power, you are just going to be angry, frustrated and resentful.
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As for helping people quit, there just wasn't enough evidence for the National Academies to say whether vaping works better than FDA approved quitting aids like gum, lozenges, patches, or just going cold turkey.
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Going cold turkey is never pleasant, but if you're going to do it anywhere, there are worse places than modern-day Chiang Mai—which explains why new facilities, like the Dawn, are opening up.
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It found acute physical withdrawal symptoms including chest pains, chest pressure, tachycardia and palpitations, lower extremity pain and spasms, nausea, sweating, and vomiting—all similar to what heroin users experience when going cold turkey.
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After Miles quit heroin cold turkey, he and Evans reunited on Miles Ahead in 1957, a sophisticated take on big band jazz, and Porgy and Bess in 1959, an adaptation of George Gershwin's opera.
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With Tom's help and a handful of freshly picked magic mushrooms, I achieved in an afternoon what years of painful attempts to go cold turkey and abortive nicotine replacement courses had failed to do.
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Though they understand that smoking is an extreme hazard to their health, and despite efforts to quit cold turkey or using the variety of smoking cessation products on the market, many continue to struggle.
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Lil Xan says he ain't about to quit Hot Cheetos cold turkey ... even if they did burn a hole in his stomach -- as he claims -- and he proved it right in front of us.
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He had gone back to smoking by 2012 and tried to quit again in November 2015, telling Ellen DeGeneres he had gone "cold turkey" and made it a week and a half without the substance.
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The Democratic opposition continued to buy into Republican policy ideas, with House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt proposing a four-year cold turkey time limit for aid and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle proposing five years.
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I spent a thousand hours in Dota 2, but forced myself to quit cold turkey last year, realizing that although I was stuck in the feedback loop, I wasn't enjoying any part of the experience.
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Instead of going cold turkey, you can also try to reduce the amount of coffee you drink by one cup every few days or swap out your go-to caffeinated beverage for decaf or tea.
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RYAN: YEAH, IT'S A REVENUE HOLE THAT PROVIDES– IF YOU JUST GO COLD TURKEY AND HAVE NONE, IF YOU GO NONE, THEN YOU HAVE TO – THAT MEANS YOU ARE NOT HAVING A DESTINATION BASED TAX.
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He found it enormously frustrating that addicts were often urged to quit heroin cold turkey or to stop taking Suboxone (or methadone or naltrexone, the other drugs used to treat addiction and counteract withdrawal symptoms).
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Or deciding you're over your meds and trying to drop them, cold turkey, something I do every few months to disastrous results, despite being at the point that I know that I should know better.
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Her six steps to smooth, polished, spring sandal-prepped feet are so cheap and easy, they'll make even the biggest pedi devotee feel more comfortable quitting their salon habit cold-turkey for the time being.
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By the time he quit collecting, cold turkey, in 2005, he had accumulated 388 pieces — videos, oil paintings, sculptures, drawings and installations — all of which had gone straight into a warehouse in a Lisbon suburb.
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Whether you're just looking to extend the life of your at-home mani by a few days, or trying to quit your $45/month salon habit cold-turkey, a top-coat polish will help you out.
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And to keep your attention focused, inexpensive productivity aids like Cold Turkey, Freedom and RescueTime block the internet and time-wasting apps if you don't have the willpower to go offline or get away from Facebook.
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Launching today, Moment's latest release offers a "Phone Bootcamp" course that includes daily exercises meant to help you modify your behavior, culminating in a final "cold turkey" day where you barely use your phone at all.
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But while there's not much evidence for the existence of a weed hangover, withdrawal symptoms—which are sometimes conflated with hangovers, but aren't quite the same thing—can still affect longtime users who quit cold turkey.
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Rather than cut Robbie off cold turkey, Laura was more than willing to offer him one last token of gratitude for being "sweet" to her during Shadow's incarceration: a blow job while Robbie's behind the wheel.
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Whether by design or by accident, millions of vapers are faced with the prospect of losing products that are helping them quit smoking where other methods, like going cold turkey and nicotine replacement therapy, have failed.
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When a patient comes into the St. Gabriel's emergency room with a 10-year-old prescription for painkillers, they aren't just cut off cold turkey; a plan is created to taper them down to a safe dose.
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He also shared two previously unpublished hoaxes on Shark Tank star and cybersecurity executive Robert Herjavec and conservative personality Ann Coulter, and explained why he stopped cold turkey from an obsession that consumed him for five months.
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In 2013, for family reasons, tough ones, I was forced to go back for a consistent amount of time and getting out of NYC from one day to the other was almost like going to rehab cold-turkey.
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Verhoeven versus Hari, it's good guy versus bad guy, white hat standing off against black hat—an old western from Tombstone, mashed up with an English style pantomime, right on cue for Xmas and the cold turkey season.
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Watch "Cold Turkey: New Hampshire's Prison Detox" The clinic is separated from the rest of the GMHC space by its own waiting room, which features pamphlets about PrEP, syringe exchange programs, crystal meth use and other vital information.
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She'd almost lost her kids because of her drug use, but now that she was expecting another, she had a choice: Go cold turkey and risk a relapse, or continue taking the medication that helped turn her life around.
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Professor Bartlett says using good old willpower on sugar is tough: "Like other drugs of abuse, withdrawal from chronic sucrose exposure can result in an imbalance in dopamine levels and be as difficult as going cold turkey," she said.
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Nail professionals tell us that the easiest, most effective way to quit nail-biting cold turkey is with routine manicures, but when you're spending much of the day fretting at home, a five-free polish might not do it.
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These are gamblers so bankrupt and so desperate that some turn to a program termed self-exclusion — volunteering to be banned from the casino in an attempt to go cold turkey and repair their deranged family and business lives.
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Yet Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey subtweeted his larger Silicon Valley counterpart's decision to allow politicians to lie in ads when he shared the decision to go cold turkey on both political ads and the more ambiguous category of issue ads.
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If Bolu walked in, the building's peeling yellow walls would be his home — and jail — for the next four months while he embarked on a cold-turkey detox program to treat his addiction to tramadol, a legal but highly addictive painkiller.
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Watch the VICE News documentary Cold Turkey: New Hampshire's Prison Detox: Drug abuse ranked as the single most important issue to New Hampshire voters in the 103 presidential election, according to an October 2015 survey by the University of New Hampshire.
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Cigarette smokers who want to break the habit have a number of options to choose from, with behavioral therapy, nicotine gum and patches, hypnosis, and good old-fashioned going cold turkey among the most popular, all to varying degrees of success.
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This stigma is unfounded, though, because neither should cause an unhealthy dependence if used properly under medical supervision, and people on these drugs still experience overall less relapses or fatal opioid overdoses than those who try to quit opioids cold turkey.
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For those who missed it, misdiagnosed me, and the so called Federal "Doctor" who took me off medication cold turkey and the other ER "Doctor Hollywood" who told me to go home and take it easy for 10 days – STOP practicing!
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For those who missed it, misdiagnosed me, and the so called federal 'doctor' who took me off medication cold turkey and the other ER 'doctor Hollywood' who told me to go home and take it easy for 10 days — STOP practicing!
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But after experiencing kidney problems related to prescription painkillers, she'd subsequently gone cold turkey and was off all pharmaceuticals the first time she visited with Dr. Vivienne Matalon (whose license was subsequently suspended) in her office in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
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The film glosses over his early years in Hollywood: a collaboration with a cousin-in-law that led to writing gigs at the dawn of variety TV and eventually to screenwriting ("The Night They Raided Minsky's") and directing ("Cold Turkey").
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In the film, Renton, in his late twenties, ends up "choosing life" over heroin, going cold turkey after the death of his friend Tommy from HIV, escaping to London, and legging it from his downbeat mates with a load of cash.
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That was really difficult for him to process, and it was one of the big factors in Robin basically deciding to get clean, that he basically just goes cold turkey and for many years did successfully stay away from drugs and alcohol.
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Though not as healthy as going cold turkey, the current evidence shows vaping to be as much as 95 percent less harmful than cigarettes, which is why many in the industry think e-cigarettes ought to be treated differently than other tobacco products.
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"If I quit all the things I loved cold turkey, I knew it would only be so long before I went back to my old ways," Ross said, explaining that he focused on a diet and exercise program that worked best for him.
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After ten years of smoking a pack a day, plus two years without nicotine after quitting cold turkey—at which point, under major stress, I had myself committed to a mental institution—I picked up an electronic vaping device and haven't looked back.
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How to sugar detox: Going cold turkey for three days The good news is that even if you're not a true sugar "addict," by eliminating sugar from your diet, you can quickly lose unwanted pounds, feel better and have a more radiant appearance.
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Last July, Gottlieb announced the FDA would clamp down on the most dangerous forms of nicotine use while encouraging innovation so that smokers unable to quit cold turkey can switch to safer nicotine alternatives and reduce their risk of an early death.
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In fact, the entire look is tempting us to make like Hough and abandon our current grow-out cold turkey and opt instead for the breakout bob of summer, the new-era Julianne cut, if you will: bright-blonde, blunt, and fresh as hell.
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Even though the more cold turkey method came out on top, the quit rates for both methods were still "quite good," said Nicola Lindson-Hawley, a postdoctoral researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford in England.
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"Rather than discouraging people from quitting at all, [the findings] will encourage them to quit abruptly, to go cold turkey and line up whatever support you need," which can include nicotine replacement therapy, setting up counseling or locating quit lines you can call, Eriksen said.
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Twenty seconds of pure-ass panic while her nails met nothing but stuffing (she could feel the ghost-return of the cold turkey shits rumble her bowels) and then relief, her sweat cold on highway miles of skin, as nails closed around the pillbox.
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Watch the VICE News documentary Cold Turkey: New Hampshire's Prison Detox: A longstanding federal funding ban on needle exchange programs — where intravenous drug users can swap their dirty needles for clean ones to prevent the spread of HIV or hepatitis — was reversed last year.
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LONDON — The ascension of a new prime minister in Britain has raised both fears and hopes (depending on the audience) that the country might leave the European Union cold turkey — no trade agreement in place, no political pact, not even a framework for further talks.
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When we asked Refinery303 readers to share reasons why they went on Whole230, the majority said that they "needed to hit the reset button," wanted to lose weight, had some unresolved "stomach issues," or were determined to quit sugar cold turkey — and they really believe it worked.
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"It's always great to be addicted to things, but eventually you have to go cold turkey… There's transition pain, and the longer you were an addict, the more painful it might be, but in the end you're going to be better off having made the transition."
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That it would fuel the addictive speculation that has become the new normal in the fashion world, where designers come and go from brands so often that a month without some gossip about creative musical chairs has started to feel like a month gone cold turkey.
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So while I can't promise to quit cold turkey, I think the time has come to scale back on my reality TV watching — either until I can let it go completely or until these networks do a better job at portraying women of color as complex and layered.
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Swaybacked and paunchy, with a thinning dome and an appetite for Winstons and Seagram's that would keep both brands in business if the rest of the world went cold turkey, Kenny doesn't quite have the wolfish charisma or the mystical intensity of some of Mr. McConaughey's other recent characters.
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"The expectation that she would totally cut herself off from the family cold turkey is unrealistic," the anonymous source said, adding that "No job is going to be as good as what she came off, so you have to find a way to slow down and come back to reality."
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I hope they aren't swayed by Durbin's blithe dismissals of the significant benefits of switching to vaping, and recognize that — while, sure, it would be better to just say no and quit cold turkey — significantly reducing the harm of their addiction would be a giant step in the right direction.
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My current therapist thinks it might have something to do with the over-priced garbage I order on Seamless, my poor stress-management skills, and how I go through phases where I consume heroic amounts of weed before quitting cold turkey—a habit some sleep experts think leads to supercharged REM cycles.
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Not only are these medications crucial for maintaining basic quality of life for millions of Americans, many of them also carry the potential for severe withdrawal symptoms that are worsened by a patient stopping the medication cold turkey, putting patients at severe risk in the event of social distancing measures preventing their refills.
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In a speech held at the National Governors Association winter meeting this weekend, Alex Azar, the newly-minted Secretary of Health and Human Services, was forthright about the necessity of MAT, which combines therapy with prescribed drugs that reduce craving and withdrawal symptoms, over "detox" approaches that force people with addiction to quit cold-turkey.
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According to nearly two dozen women who attended and worked at River View and spoke with BuzzFeed News, staff restricted students' communication with parents, took kids off of antidepressants cold turkey, prohibited girls from speaking for days or weeks at a time, failed to report allegations of abuse, and disciplined students for attempting to kill themselves.
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Cyrus said during a SiriusXM Hits 1 Radio interview that she more or less went cold turkey, "A lot of people have reached out to me and they're like, 'You know, if you want help or if you want to go to these meetings...' and I'm like, 'No, when I want something, I can do it,'" she explained.
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Vaping has also rocketed in popularity as a stop-smoking aid, the report said, outpacing the patch, gum, prescription drugs, and therapy as the most popular tool used by smokers to help a quit attempt—only going cold turkey is more popular: Britton said this is partly influenced by the fact that vaping maintains so much of the behavioural elements of nicotine addiction.
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There's a guy who tries (and fails) to go cold turkey on the constant onslaught of social media; a woman who tries (and fails) to fix the fact that her political protest group is all white; a couple who win a housing lottery and land in a new luxury building that reserves its best amenities for the people who can pay for them.
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It ranked No. 2 for best diets for diabetics and No. 3 for best heart-healthy diets; it's easy to follow, and it's also not a cold-turkey diet: Experts say it's okay to ease into the DASH diet by slowly reducing sodium intake, adding an extra serving of fruit or veggies here and there, and going meat-free one or two meals a week.
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Three years later, 2011's Bon Iver mixed in a bunch of orchestrated electronics that vaguely recall megaplatinum AOR fixtures like Toto and Howard Jones without sacrificing languid atmosphere or melancholy quietude, daubing the residual guitar plucking and waves of noodling synthesizer with the kind of smooth plastic gloss that goes down like strawberries and cream when applied to teenpop but in this inappropriate folk-rock context tastes like cold turkey grease.
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Image: LG/GizmodoThis Black Friday, when I'm swollen with cold turkey and yams, I'm going to lounge on my couch, some mindless Netflix marathon playing in the background, and I'm going to stare at the expected delivery date for the one thing I've actually bothered to order this week, on the occasion of the most hallowed of shopping holidays: A $26 OLED TV from LG.It was not easy deciding to spend $2300 on a TV. That's more than twice what I spent on my phone or would spend on a new Windows laptop.
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