Generally, most people who try to quit smoking try joining some groups and try to get some counselling to prevent further damage. But when nothing seems to work, only extreme measure should be taken. A woman from US state of California decided to slap a deputy sheriff as a preventive measure.

And how would that work you ask? You would be put in prison where smoking is a strict no-no. 31-year-old woman, Etta Mae Lopez, manhandled Deputy Matt Campoy who said that the woman appeared out of nowhere after his shift at the Sacramento County Jail, and just slapped him.

Lopez had been imprisoned where the no tobacco rule was her heaven keeping her away from smoking. Lopez had to wait for several hours to find an officer free enough to be slapped.

Lopez pleaded no contest to misdemeanour battery on a peace officer which put her to 63 days in jail. Will she lose the urges of smoking tobacco by then or is it back to square one? If its the latter, then all these efforts would go waste!

(AW- Anil)