So my wife and I went cold turkey for one month: no added sweeteners.
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I went cold turkey on the first day of police academy from using painkillers again.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Around this time, the young Schrijber began practicing judo and karate at a local gym. He noticed that he wasn't in as good physical condition as some of his peers at the gym, and went cold turkey on all drugs.
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He went cold turkey, and was able to spend a lot of his time engaged in music. While in prison he actually composed most of the Chet Baker and Art Pepper album Playboys (1956). He was released early, on May 21, 1959, and remained clean for the rest of his life; conditions of probation made it difficult, but he managed to start rebuilding his career.
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Greenfield was the primary location for the filming of the 1971 satirical comedy film Cold Turkey, produced by Norman Lear, starring Dick Van Dyke. The movie involved a town that accepted a challenge to quit smoking for 30 days. Greenfield also rose to the challenge and went "Cold Turkey" with 166 of its citizens signing Stop Smoking pledges. In 1999, a "Cold Turkey" reunion was held with Lear and several original cast members in attendance.
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In an article she wrote for The Guardian she recalls that how after writing nine novels in 12 years, all about violence and murder she stopped writing and went 'cold turkey' to try and work out what was driving her. At a writers conference in 1990 repressed memories of sexual abuse at the hands of her father started to manifest. She eventually wrote the story of her childhood in her memoir Before the Knife, published in 2002.Breaking the silence, The Guardian, Thursday 19 August 2004.
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Turley uses cannabis to treat the neurological issues that he suffers from post-NFL career. He credits cannabis with greatly improving his quality of life and even saving his life, after previously relying on numerous prescription medications with side effects that he says almost drove him to suicide. Turley completely eliminated his use of pharmaceuticals – including psychiatric and pain-killing drugs – beginning in early 2015 when he went cold turkey and switched to cannabis only. He has been active in speaking about his personal experience using cannabis, and in 2015 founded the Gridiron Cannabis Coalition to help advance policy change regarding the use of cannabis in professional sports.
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Never Could Toe the Mark was released at a pivotal time for Jennings, who was trying to get sober after over twenty years of drug abuse, beginning with amphetamines in the late 1960s and early 1970s and cocaine into the mid-1980s. In the audio version of his autobiography Waylon, he recalled that he was in such bad physical shape that he decided to take off April 1984 so he could clean up and get his health back, although he still intended to use: "I told Jessi [Colter, Waylon's wife] I'd always be a drug addict and I'd always do cocaine, and that this was just temporary, to slow it down." Jennings rented a house in Arizona and went cold turkey, and it was largely because of his young son Shooter that he decided to quit drugs for good.
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