Starting Cold Turkey, or Seeing the Trees through Forest
By a UNC student
Surprise, surprise: I sometimes (or always) get really distracted while trying to study. Yes, CHEM102L is important, but Instagram is more fun, right? I’ve been even more distracted than usual as I complete my online summer courses! Fortunately, I have two awesome programs for phones and laptops that help me stay on track for as long as I need. Cold Turkey and Forest have been (virtual) life savers.
Cold Turkey
Cold Turkey is an app that I installed on my computer at the beginning of the summer. I first discovered this program from a friend. He kept talking about how he had installed a great app to help him write his dissertation. I knew then and there that I had to give it a try.
There are three versions of Cold Turkey, each made for different purposes.
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- Cold Turkey Blocker: This version is a standard block-site. With it, I specify certain websites or applications to “blacklist” for a certain period of time. This means that, no matter how hard I try, I cannot access these sites and apps during the period I’ve blocked off. If I need more help at certain times of the day, I set a recurring timer–that paper won’t write itself at 2 PM, after all. I also use it during Zoom sessions, because, to be honest, sitting on my laptop during a lecture isn’t exactly conducive to paying attention. I block myself from all social media and even Excel because, if I don’t, I’ll begin planning out my life (no joke) in class. Using Cold Turkey, I force myself to pay attention and take meaningful notes. The app also has a “Frozen Turkey” mode, which blocks access to everything on the computer. Dramatic as that may be, it helps me take a nice break from the screen.
- Cold Turkey Writer: Writer gives me a blank text screen with no option to exit until the time I’ve set runs out or until I type a certain number of words. For my online classes, I used this option to help me finish my weekly forum posts. I would turn on Writer, set the words needed to 300, and be quietly forced to write 300 words if I ever wanted to exit the screen. Forum posts have never had such high stakes!
- Cold Turkey Micromanager: This is a relatively new program, so I haven’t used it myself. Micromanager does the opposite of Blocker: it “whitelisting” sites and applications. You make a list of sites or applications that you want to use, and, until I reach my goal, I can only use these, nothing else. Need to make a PowerPoint presentation? Now I can use only PowerPoint for a certain amount of time.
I love this program, and I plan to keep using it for my upcoming classes. The app is definitely intense, even Draconian. I’ve found that, by shutting off the locking feature, I can make the experience less harrowing. Sometimes discipline is a good thing, though.
No app is one size fits all. So even though Cold Turkey has improved my productivity, I’ve also kept an eye out for other apps that can help me focus. I like Forest precisely because it isn’t as “harsh” as Cold Turkey–I can easily override it. What’s more, it saves the Earth while I use it. Forest has both an app for phones and a browser add-on for computers.
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Unlike Cold Turkey, Forest doesn’t block certain sites or apps on the phone version. Instead, by using the app, I grow a cute, little, virtual tree for a specified amount of time (anywhere from fifteen minutes to two hours). There’s a catch, though. If I leave the app early, I kill the tree. Anytime I open my phone to check an irritating iMessage, I receive a notification that my tree is moments away from dying unless I return promptly to the app. Put in a positive way: the more time I spend focused on my tasks, the more trees I plant. I’ve always found studying with others useful, and this tree-growing solution also has a partner function. Now that my study partner and I are apart, we plant trees–and work–together. If one of us kills a tree, both trees die. The app even lets me buy new types of trees with the coins that I’ve earned from growing other trees. Virtual trees don’t interest me nearly as much as real trees do, and Forest lets me use my coins to plant up to 5 real trees in the real world!
The browser add-on is really nice, too, because it blacklists and whitelists websites. Plus (a tip for anyone who decides to use Forest), by having both the add-on running and the app running, I can earn double points! Double points, double trees. The only thing the add-on doesn’t do is block applications. For that function, I have to use Cold Turkey.
Apps Like Cold Turkey
Beyond schoolwork, I love using this app to stay mindful and attentive of the people around me. When I’m with family, I hate feeling tethered to my phone. Forest helps me focus on the people I’m with while I grow some trees.
These two apps have been great additions to this college student’s life, especially now that I’m working from home. I think that, sometimes, technology is the solution to technology. Mac internal temperature monitor. In particular, these two programs have helped me gain control of my time and have helped me appreciate my surroundings. I think we could all probably do with more of both, right now.
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'Cold turkey' refers to the abrupt cessation of a substance dependence and the resulting unpleasant experience, as opposed to gradually easing the process through reduction over time or by using replacement medication.
Sudden withdrawal from drugs such as alcohol, benzodiazepines, and barbiturates can be extremely dangerous, leading to potentially fatal seizures. For long-term alcoholics, going cold turkey can cause life-threatening delirium tremens, rendering this an inappropriate method for breaking an alcohol addiction.[1]
In the case of opioid withdrawal, going 'cold turkey' is extremely unpleasant but less dangerous.[2][3] Life-threatening issues are unlikely unless one has a pre-existing medical condition.[3]
Smoking cessation methods advanced by J. Wayne McFarland and Elman J. Folkenburg (an M.D. and a pastor who wrote their Five Day Plan ca. 1959),[4][5]Joel Spitzer and John R. Polito (smoking cessation educators)[6] and Allen Carr (who founded Easyway during the early 1980s)[7] are cold turkey plans.
Opioids are known for being especially difficult to quit cold turkey.
Etymology[edit]
The very first adaptation of the phrase “cold turkey” to its current meaning is a matter of some debate and ambiguity.[8]
Scholars of 19th-century British periodicals have pointed to the UK satirical magazine Judy as the true catalyst of “cold turkey’s” evolution in meaning. The journal's issue of January 3, 1877, featured the fictional diary of one John Humes, Esquire. The diary's transcript on the day in question details Mr Hume's exploits over his Christmas holiday. Throughout, Humes demonstrates a humbug attitude, complaining to every shopkeeper and acquaintance about the irony of the words ‘merry’ and ‘jolly’ being attached to the season. Most significantly, Hume is invited to stay at his cousin Clara's as a part of her household's celebrations. Hume, the miser to the core, is shocked that Clara serves him slices of (literal) cold turkey with his pudding and other side dishes on the evening of his arrival. A poor substitute for the roasted and dressed kind of turkey is the continually played-up implication in the comedy piece. The dissatisfied barrister stays several days nonetheless, and with each passing day, he is more and more shocked that the cold turkey finds its way onto his plate again. Finally, Hume arrives home, utterly disgusted at having been treated so badly. He calls for his estate lawyer and chops Clara completely out of his will and testament.[9]
The hypothesis posited by researchers is that word quickly spread around London, greater Europe, and finally the U.S. about Hume's having given Clara “the cold turkey treatment,” as in excluding and excommunicating someone (taking Clara out of his will) in order to exact revenge for the person's ongoing ill-treatment of oneself (the repeated serving of the cold turkey).
The next known earliest print appearance of 'cold turkey' in its exclusionary sense dates to 1910, in Canadian poet Robert W. Service's The Trail of '98: A Northland Romance: “Once I used to gamble an’ drink the limit. One morning I got up from the card-table after sitting there thirty-six hours. I'd lost five thousand dollars. I knew they’d handed me out 'cold turkey' ..'
Another possible origin relates to the American phrase talk turkey, meaning 'to speak bluntly with little preparation'.[8][10][11][12] The phrase 'taking cold turkey' has also been reported during the 1920s as slang for pleading guilty.[13]
The term is also attributed to piloerection or 'goose bumps' that occurs with abrupt withdrawal from opioids, which resembles the skin of a plucked refrigerated turkey.[3][14] However, the term was used in other contexts before being used to describe withdrawal.[8] The similar term 'kick the habit' alludes to the muscle spasms that occur in addition to goosebumps in some cases.[14]
A term appears in its contemporary usage in a December 1920 New York City medical bulletin:[15]
Some addicts voluntarily stop taking opiates and 'suffer it out' as they express it without medical assistance, a process which in their slang is called taking 'cold turkey'..
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Another early printed use, this one in the media to refer to drug withdrawal occurred in the Daily Colonist in British Columbia in 1921:[16]
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Perhaps the most pitiful figures who have appeared before Dr Carleton Simon .. are those who voluntarily surrender themselves. When they go before him, that are given what is called the 'cold turkey' treatment.
The term is later seen in the 1947 novel I, The Jury' by Mickey Spillane: Creepy app for mac.
Included was a medical record from the hospital when he had made her go cold turkey, which is a dope-addict talk for an all-out cure.
On February 26, 1951 Time magazine article 'High & Light' used the phrase, stating:
There is one dimly hopeful side to the teenage dope problem. Unlike older people, few teenagers appear to take to drugs because of psychological troubles; youngsters usually start using narcotics either out of ignorance or the same reckless impulses which lead them to race hot rods. Though they are easier to wean, however, there are almost no facilities for taking care of them. On New York City's Rikers Island, youngsters have to endure the horrors of a sudden 'cold turkey' cure or get none at all. Once released, many go right back to drugs again.
See also[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^Hughes, John R. (2009). 'Alcohol withdrawal seizures'. Epilepsy & Behavior. 15 (2): 92–7. doi:10.1016/j.yebeh.2009.02.037. PMID19249388. S2CID20197292.
- ^Opiate withdrawal. Medline Plus — NIH.
- ^ abcGhodse, Hamid (2010). Ghodse's Drugs and Addictive Behaviour: A Guide to Treatment. Cambridge University Press. p. 77. ISBN9781139485678.
- ^'New book details history of LLU bringing 'Health to the People''. Loma Linda University. March 31, 2008. Retrieved May 28, 2010.
- ^McFarland, J. Wayne; Folkenberg, Elman J. (1964). 'The Five-Day Plan to Quit Smoking'(PDF). University Health Services, University of Wisconsin. Archived from the original(PDF) on June 10, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
- ^'WhyQuit'. WhyQuit. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
- ^'Allen Carr Worldwide'. Allen Carr. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
- ^ abc'Why Do We Quit 'Cold Turkey''. Merriam Webster. Retrieved Jan 3, 2020.
- ^Judy, Or the London Serio-comic Journal. 1877.
- ^'cold turkey' definition, Dictionary.com.
- ^'Etymology of 'Cold Turkey''.
- ^'The meaning and origin of the expression: Cold turkey'.
- ^Statistical Report. New York (N.Y.). Police Dept. Page 192. 1924.
- ^ abHales, Robert E.; Yudofsky, Stuart C.; Roberts, Laura Weiss (2014). The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, Sixth Edition. American Psychiatric Publishing. p. 779. ISBN9781585624447.
- ^The Narcotic Drug Problem Arthur D. Greenfield. December 1920. Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Health in the City of New York, Volume 10
- ^Movers and Shakers: A Chronology of Words that Shaped Our Age, by John Ayto
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