Mindlessly scrolling through apps. Drinking too much coffee. Biting your nails. If you've ever tried to quit a bad habit cold turkey, or replace it with another action, you probably know that neither ...

From let the cat out of the bag to dog days of summer, there are all sorts of idiomatic expressions that don’t actually mean what they sound like they mean. Take quit cold turkey, for instance.

The vast majority of smokers who quit succeed in doing so by themselves. This raises an interesting dilemma for planned treatments both drug-based and behavioral. It also exposes a more general issue ...

Would you give up soda? Well, a group of Diet Coke- and Coca-Cola-obsessed USA TODAY journalists decided to try. I have been drinking Coca-Cola for as long as I can remember. I've tried to quit ...

Denis Leary is sharing the surprising way he went from smoking five packs of cigarettes a day to none at all. “I smoked, like, five packs a day until, like, five years ago. It's crazy,” Leary, 68, ...