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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Oh, and Leigh, try nicotine lozenges if you aren't going cold-turkey.
Busy, Episode 2 SVGL 2009
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"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
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When my daughter was old enough to see the screen, I went cold-turkey and began to live my life again.
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The cold-turkey approach, a rapid deleveraging, means a very weak economy.
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(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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