Bootstrap Toogle: Change checked state without raise change event

Related to: http://www.bootstraptoggle.com/

Is there any way to set checked state without raising onchange event?

It's simpler to explain with an example

<input type="checkbox" data-toggle="toggle" data-on="Active" data-off="Disabled" data-width="100px" id="chb_nueva_ruta">

<script type="text/javascript">
    $("#chb_nueva_ruta").on("change", function () {
        alert('You click it manually');
    });
</script>

When the user clicks on the check box, an alert is shown. However, for an out of question reason, I need to change the state of the checkbox in other function, but I don't want the code defined on the onchange event be executed.

According to documentation, for change the state I should use: $("#chb_nueva_ruta").bootstrapToggle('off')

But that line of code, raises onchange event. If I simply do $("#chb_nueva_ruta").attr("checked", false)

The checkbox stills showing to the user like if it's checked.