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cold turkey
The best way to quit caffeine is to go cold turkey for two weeks.
Researchers found that runners deprived of exercise suffer withdrawal symptoms similar to those of drug users going cold turkey.
He was drinking a bottle of whisky a day before deciding to go cold turkey.
Six years ago, she went cold turkey on a 60-a-day smoking habit.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Drug addiction
abuser
addictiveness
anti-crack
buzzed
buzzed up
clean
crack house
dependency
druggie
glue-sniffer
glue-sniffing
habit
habit-forming
hooked
hophead
intervention
junkie
pothead
smackhead
taker