Puff Piece - by Jonathan Yardley -washingtonpost.com re: THE EASY WAY TO START SMOKING A Step-by-Step Guide to Smoking Twenty Cigarettes a Day -- And Loads More in the Evening.By George Cockerill and David Owen.Canongate. 148 pp. Paperback, $10

Staying a smoker can be hard.
Take 20-year-old Dean, for example: "It was after my exams that I first felt like giving up. It's the times when you're least stressed that it's so tempting to throw in the towel. So I try to make sure that I'm in stressful situations or find something worrying to think about and that usually gets me reaching for another smoke."
Or 24-year-old Megan:"The hardest times are when I go to places like gyms or health spas. Being surrounded by temptation is really hard sometimes. Especially when you see how much other people are enjoying themselves and how healthy they look. But I stuck with it and tried to steer clear of those environments while I was forming the addiction. Now I'm so hooked that I don't really spend much time in places like that before nipping out for a smoke."