datafinder.stats.govt.nz cigarette smoking behaviour regional council Cigarette smoking behaviour in the Waikato Region Tobacco Control Data Repository

For some people, the location matters

Support Systems : Connecting with friends, family, or support groups provides valuable encouragement and motivation during the withdrawal phase

However, the reversal effect decreases gradually as the age of quitting increases

It was then that I went to see a drug counselor, and when she asked me why I was getting high, the only thing I could think to say was, Its given me something to write about. So three decades later I sat down to write about it, intending it purely as nonfiction, but as I wrote I began to do what I asked my students to do, reimagine and reinvent myself, until by draft ten or so my facts could no longer be called facts. Eventually, the central principle of cigarette addiction being an unexpected redemptive forcewhat had inspired me to write the story in the first placewas cut entirely

Notice that these images emerge when you are going through a rough patch in life or about to meet someone special.