Have you ever gone into an ashtray and smoked one of yours or even another person's burned down cigarette butt because you carelessly ran out of
cigarettes?
It's a question I ask at all my clinics. Usually between one half to three quarters of the group has gone for their own butts, and about one quarter has
smoked other people's used partially smoked cigarettes. While it may not seem totally disgusting at the time, in retrospect the act often forces the
ex-smoker to recognize just what kind of grip nicotine had on him or her at one time to make him or her resort to such a desperate act. It then can serve as
a reminder of just how much control cigarettes once exerted on the person and how he or she never wants to be in the grip of nicotine's control again. To
avoid ever being controlled by nicotine in the future is as simple as knowing to never take another puff!
Joel
)....and yes, when I was smoking, I would have happily answered the nicodemons call to smoke other people's left over butts pulled from a
dirty ashtray if had foolishly run out of my own...you're right Joel, it IS amazing to what disgusting depths we will sink in order to feed our
addictions...I am SO very thankful that I can truthfully say I no longer do that, and especially that I can see now (as I begin to step away from the grips
of my addiction) that I NEVER want to TAKE that nasty, someone else's germs, covered in stinky ashes, PUFF again. Thanks for the vivid reminder.
Lotus
...Yes...
Thanks for asking
Joel
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. Yeah, I'm proud to jump in on this one. Uh huh.
Joel....knowing me, do you honestly think that I could reach into a dirty ashtray, pick up a
disgusting cigarette butt and then put it in my mouth and smoke it?
