"elaine" > wrote in
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> "Dog3" <dognospam@adjfkdla;not> wrote in message
> 4...
>> Bubba >
>> :
>>
>> > Andy wrote:
>> >
>> >>I'm thankful that after 30 years, I stopped smoking (cold turkey)
>> >>on September 1st, 2004.
>> >>
>> >>I'm thankful that my 100-year-old grandmother with decades of
>> >>arthritus and other maladies still considers herself blessed.
>> >>
>> >>Andy
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > Congrats!
>> > Coming up on one year for my wife and I. It was our anniversary
>> > gift
>> > to each other.
>> >
>> > Bubba
>> >
>>
>> 2 days for me.
>>
>> Michael
>>
> About 6 weeks for me - cold turkey too. BTW, where did that
> expression come from?
>
> Elaine

I can't vouch for the validity of this site but:

http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorc.htm

Cold Turkey

This phrase meaning without preparation dates to 1910. The use in relation
to withdrawal from an addictive substance (originally heroin) dates to
around 1922. The derivation is from the idea that cold turkey is a food
that requires little preparation in the kitchen. So to quit like cold
turkey is to do so suddenly and without preparation

Michael