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cold turkey

Sl. immediately; without tapering off or cutting down gradually. (Originally drug slang. Now used of breaking any habit.) Tom stopped smoking cold turkey. She gave up her drinking habit cold turkey and had no ill effects.

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The truth is that the people who are successful at quitting cold turkey are the exception, not the rule. Don't Read This Unless You'Re Truly Ready to Stop Smoking by Rilda Jermi / Health, general community The judge told teenager Shane Preston that he could go cold turkey and come out clean on his release. Thumbs up from mum; Addict son locked up by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England) Quit smoking hypnosis programs address behaviors that quit smoking drugs don''t Drugs might help you get through the physical nicotine withdrawal symptoms more easily than quitting cold turkey Quit smoking hypnosis programs address behaviors that quit smoking drugs don''t. Quit Smoking Hypnosis Delivers Long Term Results by Cherie Cann / Food/cooking/nutrition community			cocky as the king of spades coerce into coexist with coffee coffee and coffee and Danish coffee-table book coffin cogitate on cohabit with coil coil around coil up coil up into coin coin a phrase coincide with cold cold as a welldigger's ass cold comfort cold enough for you? cold feet cold fish Cold hands, warm heart cold shoulder cold turkey cold, hard cash cold-shoulder coldcock collaborate with collapse collapse into collapse under collar collar-and-tie men collate with collect collect around collect for collect from collect on collect thoughts collect up collide with collude with color color in colored colour comb comb for			cold stress cold stretch cold stuffed tomato cold swap cold sweat cold sweat cold sweat cold sweats cold sweats cold sweats Cold Tea Sign Cold Temperature Actuated Vacuum Cold Temperature Difference Cold Temperature/Dry cold test cold therapy cold therapy cold therapy cold therapy Cold Things, Morbid Fear of Cold Tolerance cold tongue cold torpor Cold trap cold tray cold tray cold tray cold tray cold treatment cold trimming cold turkey Cold Turkey (song) Cold Turkey (song) Cold Turkey (song) cold turkey method cold type cold type cold ulcer cold ulcer Cold Upsetting Cold urticaria Cold urticaria Cold urticaria cold urticaria-angioedema Cold Vacuum Drying Cold Vacuum Drying Facility Cold Vapor Atmospheric Fluorescence Spectrometry Cold Vapor Atomic Absorption Cold Vapor Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Cold Vapor Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry Cold Vapour Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Cold Vapour Atomic Fluorescence Cold virus Cold virus Cold virus cold wall Cold Wall Abated cold wall effect cold war cold war cold war

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