Years before, he pulled the plug on piano lessons (too time-consuming), quit skiing (for fear of breaking a limb during basketball season) and opted out of competitive chess and tennis despite winning titles and trophies in both (distracting).
She said the project of assembling and completing the memoir was so consuming that she quit her job at Comedy Central, where she worked in talent development.
We need to do something similar for the countries from which these children are fleeing, including the fact of trying to get Americans to quit consuming so much of the drugs that are imported from these countries".
I quit consuming almost all sugars and many starches last year and 1) lost fifty pounds, 2) lost my lifelong cravings for alcohol and for nicotine and 3) went through a nasty three-week withdrawal including headaches, body aches, nightmares and flu-like symptoms that convinced me that sugar is indeed addictive.
By 2008, the project had become so all-consuming that Greene quit his teaching job to pursue it full time.
Perhaps, too, he would like to show his daughters that it's not a bad idea, occasionally, to quit passively consuming and get up and do something.
Once just a fan and a self-described successful "tech guy," Sir Ron's work with creampies became so all-consuming that he eventually quit his job, moved to California, and dug himself deep into the adult industry, where he still works today.
Participants were 223 smokers consuming ≥ 5 cigarettes per day, willing to quit and not using cessation aids (47.1% females, M = 37.5 years [ SD = 11.8], 86.1% Swiss).
Kim travelled to Buenos Aires four times before he decided to quit his high-paying but all-consuming corporate job in Los Angeles and open Casa Mun in the Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Palermo.
Smoking cessation advice, particularly those intensive and time-consuming interventions known to be especially effective in promoting quit attempts and achieving abstinence, could perhaps be delegated to and delivered by a nurse [ 15, 16].
