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  • But studies of those who successfully quit outside of NRT clinical trials often show no NRT advantage over the cold-turkey approach.

    Chew On This: Sticking With Nicotine Gum for the Long Haul David Kesmodel 2011

  • Ms. Gregg, a 41-year-old executive assistant in the University of Minnesota's department of medicine, smoked for 22 years before she quit by going cold-turkey in 2007.

    Chew On This: Sticking With Nicotine Gum for the Long Haul David Kesmodel 2011

  • That would create another power crunch when demand rises again in the summer of 2012, and Japanese are debating whether going cold-turkey on nuclear power is possible.

    Japan Snaps Back With Less Power Peter Landers 2011

  • I pointed out that my anti-seizure meds run out on the 15th, which dos not allow adequate time to find a new neurologist, and that going cold-turkey on anti-seizure meds generally results in death.

    Odin's Day blubeagle 2009

  • After kicking drugs via Mr. Wilkerson's cold-turkey, scripture-reading method, Mr. Cruz went on to become a Pentecostal minister himself, often preaching in Eastern Europe.

    Preacher Built Activist Ministry in New York Stephen Miller 2011

  • Oh, and Leigh, try nicotine lozenges if you aren't going cold-turkey.

    Busy, Episode 2 SVGL 2009

  • "There's no money to be made in cold turkey quitting, even though cold turkey is how the vast majority of former smokers kicked the habit," says John Polito , editor of WhyQuit, a popular blog that endorses cold-turkey cessation from tobacco.

    Chew On This: Sticking With Nicotine Gum for the Long Haul David Kesmodel 2011

  • When my daughter was old enough to see the screen, I went cold-turkey and began to live my life again.

    Fish poop « WholeSelfCoach 2010

  • The cold-turkey approach, a rapid deleveraging, means a very weak economy.

    Rousing the Spirits of Business to Create More Jobs 2010

  • (That one is now subject to a Ministerial review, because, apparently, the snowy streets of Zagreb are no place to go cold-turkey.)

    The Eternal Flame « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

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