How do we stop a thread in Java?

@Deprecated
public final void stop()

import static java.lang.Thread.currentThread;
public class ThreadStopTest {
   public static void main(String args[]) throws InterruptedException {
      UserThread userThread = new UserThread();
      Thread thread = new Thread(userThread, "T1");
      thread.start();
      System.out.println(currentThread().getName() + " is stopping user thread");
      userThread.<strong>stop()</strong>;
      Thread.sleep(2000);
      System.out.println(currentThread().getName() + " is finished now");
   }
}
class UserThread implements Runnable {
   private volatile boolean exit = false;
   public void run() {
      while(!exit) {
         System.out.println("The user thread is running");
      }
      System.out.println("The user thread is now stopped");
   }
   public void stop() {
      exit = true;
   }
}

main is stopping user thread
The user thread is running
The user thread is now stopped
main is finished now