{"product_id":"lighting-up-how-i-stopped-smoking-drinking-and-everything-else-i-loved-in-life-except-sex-paperback","title":"Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Shapiro\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eFive Men Who Broke My Hear\u003c\/i\u003et, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDr. Winters, \"the James Bond of psychotherapy,\" is a brilliant but unorthodox addiction specialist, a \u003cbr\u003eformer 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShapiro 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 \u003cbr\u003eto quit is him. . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNever has the battle to stem substance abuse been captured with such wit, sophisticated insight, and candor. \u003ci\u003eLighting Up\u003c\/i\u003e is so compulsively readable, it's addictive.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003eA 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. \u003cbr\u003eDr. Winters, \"the James Bond of psychotherapy,\" is a brilliant but unorthodox addiction specialist, a \u003cbr\u003eformer 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.\" \u003cbr\u003eShapiro finally does kick the habit-while losing weight and finding career and connubial bliss-only to discover that the second she's let go ofher 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 \u003cbr\u003eto quit is him. . . . \u003cbr\u003eNever 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Shapiro\u003c\/b\u003e, an award-winning writing professor, freelances for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, New York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Elle, and O: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e online. She's the bestselling author or co-author of twelve books her family hates, including \u003ci\u003eFive Men Who Broke My Heart, Lighting Up, Unhooked, The Bosnia List, \u003c\/i\u003e and the inspiring writing guide \u003ci\u003eThe Byline Bible\u003c\/i\u003e. She and her husband, a scriptwriter, live in Greenwich Village, where she teaches her popular \"instant gratification takes too long\" classes at The New School and NYU and in private workshops and seminars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 322\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 27, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45338568851558,"sku":"9780385338349","price":24.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/K0JuclZ3SzdaNzd3ZGtBMkhOdHpNUT09.webp?v=1774633838","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/lighting-up-how-i-stopped-smoking-drinking-and-everything-else-i-loved-in-life-except-sex-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}