quit cold turkey

He tried cocaine for the first time at age 21 on a trip to the Jersey Shore, and after 13 increasingly damaging years, he quit cold turkey, he said, because “I didn’t want my father and mother to bury me as a drug addict.”

“I’d like to not quit cold turkey. I think there are some opportunities, but it’s hard,” Almirola said.

After the stroke, he quit cold turkey, cleaned up his diet and started working out twice a day.

I went to stay at my parents’ home and quit cold turkey.

But he and his wife Jean quit cold turkey when their daughter Mary came along.