cold turkey

She started smoking again, nearly a decade after quitting cold turkey.

"We went cold turkey really, but we managed it. We've just got used to living without Russian pipeline gas," explains Dr Jack Sharples, senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.

If you’re trying to scale back on social media, maybe limit yourself to 15 minutes a day, instead of going cold turkey.

And if Jackie is getting up at 4:30 to test-roast three turkeys, I’m texting her turkey and bulging-bicep emojis and joyously eating cold turkey under conference room lighting at noon.

In rare cases, it can resemble substance use disorders such as drug dependence or pathological gambling, complete with withdrawal-like symptoms such as cravings, loneliness, and dark moods when users go cold turkey.