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WHY??

by snowflake620, Dec 16, 2008 10:00AM

Why do they call it cold turkey when you quit any thing abruptly?
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by Kova, Dec 16, 2008 10:06AM

i have heard that it has to do with the "goose bumps", the chills, and that "kicking" the habit it becasue of the RLS. i don't know if it is true but it works for me. lol.

Kova

by snowflake620, Dec 16, 2008 10:09AM

To: KOVA

Works for me to thanks
snowflake

by troubleinohio, Dec 16, 2008 10:27AM

yep I got the goose flesh when in WD. Id have that severe bone chilling pain. The pain was COLD and felt like it was coming right from the center of your bones and it would break me out in goosebumps

by theeagle, Dec 16, 2008 10:34AM

The term indeed came from the way a turky looks - - medically it is pylo erectus........

by dominosarah

, Dec 16, 2008 11:05AM

So i went "pylo erectus"?? Interesting!!!!

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