The phrase "abstain from performing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of deliberately choosing not to engage in a specific action or activity.
Example: "In order to maintain a healthy lifestyle, I have decided to abstain from performing any strenuous exercises for the next month."
Alternatives: "refrain from doing" or "avoid engaging in".
Such a woman is never far from the necessity to cook or abstain from food, to perform an unselfish act, to exercise tolerance and self-sacrifice in relationships that define the core of our cultural conception of love.
The Wednesday (May 25) edition of the official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, included a piece by Spanish theologian Juan Jose Prez-Sobarguinging that couples in such a predicament should abstain from sex, because intercourse performed with a condom is, "from the moral point of view, not a fully conjugal act".
On the day preceding the tests, all subjects were requested to abstain from alcohol, not to perform any kind of exhausting physical activity, and to go to bed no later than 11 00 p.m.
We included smokers (n = 13, pack years 31 ± 23), who were advised to abstain from their habit for at least 24 hours before performing full lung function testing, and nonsmokers (n = 12).
When the computer was activated for study acquisition, the patient was asked to perform a single swallow and to abstain from swallowing during the following acquisition period.
Patients and control subjects were asked to abstain from alcohol, tobacco, or caffeine on the day the measurements were performed.
Subjects were requested to abstain from caffeine, smoking, and alcohol for at least 12 hours before assessment was performed.
During the specified day, participants performed their normal daily activities; however, they were requested to abstain from cycling or driving a vehicle during the test period.
The mailed invitation contained instructions to abstain from food, alcohol and tobacco for 12 h prior to the examination, which was performed by trained nurses in the morning.
