Asklemmy

Yes. Have you?

I once quit one of my antidepressants (venlafaxine) cold turkey and got to feel my brain throb nonstop for a month straight.

It's the only way I can quit anything. Recently quit vaping (nicotine) that way

Weed Like 45 days ago, I still see myself going back to it but not for a while, and ideally not as a habit. Everything else sorta fades in and out pretty easily so far.

I know this is pretty light weight but soda is my back monkey. Cold turkey has worked but the headaches. Granted it was really a caffeine drop because I don't like coffee and am not super wild about tea. I have done better with gradual, however its easier to relapse I think and I have never kicked it permanently.

Tobacco. Started by delaying the first smoke of the day as long ad I could. Eventually I got through a whole day.

Stopped biting my nails after about 35 years of tearing them to the quick. It wasn't my first attempt, but when I successfully stopped, it was cold turkey. It's been over four years now. I buy a new nail tool periodically to keep them looking good. I'm proud of them despite how trivial. The novelty of tapping on things and peeling stickers hasn't worn off.

Videogames 10 years ago. I was spending time on videogames basically every day. I didn't see it as something harmful, but during one christmas break I dared myself not to play videogames during the 10 days school break. Lost all interest in gaming in a matter of days, never picked it up since then. I sold my PS4 six months later. A few years ago I built myself a gaming PC with the intention to use it for gaming but I've actually never bought or downloaded any game

I still play local multiplayer games every once in a while with I'm over at some friends' place (eg. party games as Stickbold, Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Fifa), or online tabletop games such as hangman, gartic phone, geoguesser or boardgamesarena.com

Cigarettes when I got some long pain and it actually started to hurt when I breathed in the smoke. Stopped alcohol completely at the same time.

I kept it up for almost a month.

Quit cigarettes cold turkey.

Wellll, almost dying from a bleeding ulcer (partly caused by cigarettes), 2 week stay in a hospital, and 4 more weeks of recovery kinda helped.

Soda, one night driving home from a movie set I stopped and got two of the largest vats of Mountain Dew for the 90 minute drive. As I was getting into my truck I questioned my decision and dumped them both. I switched to La croix (and later other brands).

Close to it with cigarettes. I took a week off from work and locked myself in the basement with a single pack of smokes (I was smoking 2-3 packs a day at that point). At the end of the week I had cigs left over and have never smoked since (20 years ago).

In high school I opened my locker one day and I had more empty bottles of vodka than I did books. I had one last bender and quit. Very similar with recreational drugs.

Quitting nicotine a couple April's ago. I took a week off to stay home for it

I gave up Diet Coke once upon a time. But to supplement my caffeine dependency, I started drinking the "energy" Crystal Light and Mio drink mixes. I enjoyed those but I noticed I had more heartburn with them. So I went back to Diet Coke. I guess this anecdote isn't a true cold turkey example. I only switched to the nicotine patch of soft drinks.