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| Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex | 
 enlarge | Author: Susan Shapiro
Publisher: Delta
Category: Book
List Price: $17.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 729958
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0385338341
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780385338349
ASIN: 0385338341
Publication Date: December 27, 2005
Release Date: December 27, 2005
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In the critically acclaimed Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Manhattan journalist Susan Shapiro revisited five self-destructive romances. In her hilarious, illuminating new memoir, Lighting Up, she rejects five self-destructive substances. This difficult quest for clean living starts with Shapiro?s shocking revelation that, at forty, her lengthiest, most emotionally satisfying relationship has been with cigarettes.
A two-pack-a-day smoker since the age of thirteen, Susan Shapiro quickly discovers that it?s impossible to be a writer, a nonsmoker, sane, and slender in the same year. The last time she tried to quit, she gained twenty-three pounds, couldn?t concentrate on work, and wanted to kill herself and her husband, Aaron, a TV comedy writer who hates her penchant for puffing away. Yet just as she?s about to choose her vice over her marriage vows, she stumbles upon a secret weapon.
Dr. Winters, ?the James Bond of psychotherapy,? is a brilliant but unorthodox addiction specialist, a
former chain-smoker himself. Working his weird magic on her psyche, he unravels the roots of her twenty-seven-year compulsion, the same dangerous dependency that has haunted her doctor father, her grandfather, and a pair of eccentric aunts from opposite sides of the family, along with Freud and nearly one in four Americans. Dr. Winters teaches her how to embrace suffering, then proclaims that her months of panic, depression, insecurity, vulnerability, and wild mood swings win her the award for ?the worst nicotine withdrawal in the history of the world.?
Shapiro finally does kick the habit?while losing weight and finding career and connubial bliss?only to discover that the second she?s let go of her long-term crutch, she?s already replaced it with another fixation. After banishing cigarettes, alcohol, dope, gum, and bread from her day-to-day existence, she conquers all her demons and survives deprivation overload. But relying religiously on Dr. Winters, she soon realizes that the only obsession she has left
to quit is him. . . .
Never has the battle to stem substance abuse been captured with such wit, sophisticated insight, and candor. Lighting Up is so compulsively readable, it?s addictive.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 How YOU (and I) quit smoking October 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While reading Lighting Up, I quit smoking. My withdraw began the moment the book ended. Without Shapiro's voice to guide me through my own nicotine addiction, I was forced to accept my own sober misery. In an instant gratification society, it's easy to give into vices to hide what keeps us from happiness--our own neurosis. Shapiro's quest for overall health is about clearing smoke. Getting rid of the smoke destroying your lungs is fairy simple. But releasing the smoke in your heart is very tough. It becomes easier after joining Shapiro as she liberates herself and her readers by sharing her raw human emotions. Most stray away from showing weakness. Not Shapiro. She's a fearless memoirist, full of stories that ignite an even bigger fire--the power to be yourself.
Smart, Funny, Addictive February 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
We're all hooked on something: love, sports, drugs, cupcakes. No matter what your addiction is, you'll profit from reading Shapiro's book. In it, she detoxes from the substances that are preventing her from living her fullest, best life (cigarettes, pot, booze, gum -- don't laugh...even bread & pasta, perish the thought!) With fearless honesty and self-deprecating humor, Shapiro walks readers through the process, which she tackled with the help of a brilliant addictions specialist (and wannabe writer) named Dr. Winters, who has plenty of issues of his own. You'll love the little Zen wisdom notes he gives her at the end of each session; feel the discomfort of withdrawal; relate to the negative reactions of those around her when Shapiro overcomes her addictions, one by one; and most of all, cheer her on as she confronts her demons. Packed with insights (and cheaper than therapy), this memoir should be required reading for anyone seeking to reinvent themselves.
Susan Shapiro is AMAZING! January 14, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
First of all, I'll say that LIGHTING UP is one of the best books I've read in a long time... Very addictive and HARD TO PUT DOWN!! Her determination is an inspiration to anyone who is struggling with an addiction. It's completely unlike any of the other books that are written about an addiction... Not as DEPRESSING... It's humorous. READ THIS BOOK!!! Hands down... Susan Shapiro is an incredibly gifted writer!!!
Fabulous August 26, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is funny as hell and hard to put down - can emphasis with someone who writes about her struggles with giving up smoking and drinking while living "in the center of Manhattan, where I could get any substance I wanted delivered within twenty minutes"...
Wonderful! August 23, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am a psychologist who specializes (and has coped) with addiction. This book is a must read! Page for page, Susan Shapiro is a great writer.
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