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Nicotine Dreams: A Story of Compulsive Gambling | 
 enlarge | Author: Katie Cunningham
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 372006
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 136
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 1589397800
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781589397804
ASIN: 1589397800
Publication Date: October 31, 2005
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Product Description
Meet Kim, a fairly ordinary, middle-aged woman with a job, two adult children, and a difficult husband. For enjoyment she plays the stock market, buys expensive handbags and sneaks an occasional cigarette. But when a casino opens within driving distance of her house, her life as she knows it will soon be over. This is a story of addiction. This is a story of one woman's descent into gambling hell, where the compulsion to play slots and poker machines is so great, she will risk it all in order to place just one more bet.
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 Fantastic Read! September 1, 2008
This book was a great read. It was a real page-turner. I couldn't put it down. I couldn't wait to see what would happen next!
 What A Bad Book! Don't Gamble With This Piece Of Cr** August 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Don't be fooled with these good reviews! This book s**ks! First off it ends incomplete! second the book jumps back and forth between the real world and her dream world! boring!!! If you are looking for help with a gambling problem this book has NO help to give you!
 A sad tale of compulsion June 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Would have liked to know where she went from the bottom. What a waste -- compulsions such as this are so sad. I have heard from others that they thought the help groups were not for them and proceeded to destroy their families and their lives.
Pathological Gambling in Women July 14, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Finally a book about a female compulsive gambler. The casinos are full of them. It's time to take notice.
Amazing Book!!! November 11, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is without a doubt the most frightening and real depiction of a descent into "gambling hell" I have ever read. This book doesn't just "talk at you" about the evils and horrors and psychological reasons of a compulsive gambling addiction. It takes you into the very bowels of gambling hell. The highs... the lows...the utopia of the big win and the despair of the big loss. Time and time again... over and over..it is a mind numbing endeavor. And if anyone out there thinks this is about the money, they are wrong. Those of us that have struggled to beat the demons and monsters of this insidious disease will be able to see ourselves in this book. I have read many books about gambling addictions, however I have found none that describes the total destruction of a woman's life quite so eloquently as this book does. I have walked in this woman's shoes...I have been in that mental vacuum, that place that only a compulsive gambler knows. There are millions of women out there that suffer from gambling addictions. Thank you, Katie Cunningham, for writing this book...it could have been me. With Casinos sprouting on America's Landscape like weeds, much much more needs to be written on this subject. If you have a problem with gambling, then this is not one of those books you can pick up and read and then forget about.It will not give you any advice on how to cure your illness, but it will have an affect on you..hopefully the affect will be a positive one , one that will help you control your addiction. I am a sixty year old female compulsive gambler, and it left me chilled to the bone.
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