Some smokers try anything to quit. There’s the patch, pills, gum, hypnotism, and those cigarette-like inhaler things. Some go cold turkey and some volunteer to go to jail:
An Iowa woman who smokes two packs of cigarettes a day became so frustrated with her addiction that she called the sheriff’s department last week and asked officers to jail her for several days — just to help her kick the nasty habit.
“I’ve tried everything,” Jodi Perkins told ABC News’ Law & Justice Unit. “I’m only 39 and I smoke two packs a day and I just can’t breathe. I would do anything in the world to quit smoking. I would go to jail. I’m just so sick of it.”
The jail wouldn’t take her, which is too bad, because we all know there are no smokes in lock-up. She turned to her family to imprison her in her bathroom. They were down with the plan, but then had second thoughts.
“I went out and got handcuffs and then I got hold of my sisters and I said to them, ‘OK, I want you to handcuff me inside my bathroom for a week.’ They would leave me food and water and everything, and then not come back for a week.”
“They agreed to do it, but then they changed their minds. ‘What if someone broke into your house?’ they said. Or ‘What if there was a fire and you couldn’t get out?’” Perkins said, recounting her sisters’ concerns.
She said she and her sisters then hatched a plan to handcuff her in the bathroom with food and water “and then they’d leave me a hacksaw,” Perkins said, chuckling as she recounted the conversation.
She figured she’d just end up at the gas station, buying cigarettes in handcuffs.
