title: Quit Snap: The Acclaimed Final Solution Concerning Nicotine and Psychology
author:  Clay H. Emerton 
description: Clay H. Emerton has a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Resources Development. He has completed graduate work in Public Administration and Family Therapy including the study of psychopharmacology, psychopathology, human sexuality, personality development, professional ethics, and more. Emerton is married and the father of three children. He lives in Metro Atlanta where he continues graduate work. He works professionally with a large private corporation and volunteers as an executive for a public charity.
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  Neal Asher
  
  Â© 2003 Neal Asher
  
  "Problem down at the lading yards," Jape said as he climbed into the AGC
  beside me before I had a chance to get out. I watched him pulling his
  papermesh trench-coat tight around his bulky frame. If he, who had ever been
  known as a master of understatement, called it a 'problem', then it was time
  to wheel out the mops, buckets, and dustbin liners.
  
  "Jape, I haven't had coffee yet, or nicotine, or any stimulant. Can't it at
  least wait a quarter of an hour?"
  
  He turned a boulder of a face towards me and blinked his baggy eyes. He'd been
  a detective for twenty years and knew the efficacy of coffee and cigarettes.
  "We'll grab something in a while. The Chief said to get over there right
  away."
  
  "Bugger," I replied, and engaged the car's gravmotor. With outrigger lights
  flashing we were soon sp