Ebook Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex, by Susan Shapiro
You can carefully add the soft documents Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro to the device or every computer hardware in your workplace or home. It will certainly assist you to constantly proceed reading Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro each time you have spare time. This is why, reading this Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro doesn't offer you troubles. It will certainly give you crucial sources for you who intend to begin creating, covering the comparable book Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro are different book field.
Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex, by Susan Shapiro
Ebook Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex, by Susan Shapiro
Why need to get ready for some days to obtain or receive guide Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro that you buy? Why ought to you take it if you could obtain Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro the faster one? You can discover the same book that you buy right here. This is it guide Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro that you could get directly after buying. This Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro is well known book in the world, obviously lots of people will attempt to possess it. Why do not you end up being the first? Still perplexed with the method?
Why must be book Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro Book is one of the simple resources to look for. By getting the writer and style to obtain, you could find many titles that provide their information to acquire. As this Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro, the motivating book Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro will certainly provide you exactly what you should cover the work target date. And why should remain in this internet site? We will ask initially, have you more times to go with shopping the books and also look for the referred publication Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro in publication shop? Many individuals might not have sufficient time to locate it.
Thus, this website provides for you to cover your trouble. We show you some referred books Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro in all types and also styles. From usual writer to the well-known one, they are all covered to supply in this internet site. This Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro is you're looked for book; you simply should visit the link web page to display in this web site and then go for downloading and install. It will certainly not take often times to obtain one publication Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro It will certainly depend upon your net connection. Merely purchase and also download the soft documents of this publication Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro
It is so very easy, isn't it? Why don't you try it? In this site, you could also find various other titles of the Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro book collections that might be able to aid you locating the very best option of your work. Reading this publication Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro in soft file will also ease you to obtain the source conveniently. You could not bring for those books to someplace you go. Just with the gadget that consistently be with your everywhere, you could read this book Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro So, it will be so quickly to complete reading this Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, And Everything Else I Loved In Life Except Sex, By Susan Shapiro
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.
- Sales Rank: #1237637 in Books
- Published on: 2005-12-27
- Released on: 2005-12-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .75" w x 5.50" l, .85 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9780385338349
- Condition: New
- Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
From Publishers Weekly
As a follow-up to her memoir Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Shapiro turns from romantic train wrecks to nicotine addiction. Her struggle to end a two-pack-a-day problem will be familiar to anyone who's tried to kick the habit; her version of suffering includes eating too many lollipops, yelling at her husband and encountering writer's block. To make quitting easier, Shapiro visits a psychologist who specializes in addictions and finds herself both repulsed and drawn to his aggressive style, which involves following his advice without question for a year. And what do you know: after several months, Shapiro's cigarette cravings diminish—but she finds she's addicted to her therapy sessions and looks forward to them in the same way that a smoker thinks of her next drag. More seriously, the removal of Shapiro's literal smoke screen reveals aspects of her life—family and relationship issues—that she's neglected for decades. Writing this memoir was obviously cathartic for Shapiro, although reading it can be trying at times (e.g., her discourses on her other vices, like pot and caffeine, are quite long-winded). But Shapiro's wit and honesty elevate the work, and her sessions with her cool, intelligent psychologist capture all that's both absurd and mundane about such encounters.
Copyright � Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review
"Shapiro's wit and honesty elevate the work."
--Publishers Weekly
From the Hardcover edition.
From the Inside Flap
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 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
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.
Most helpful customer reviews
3 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Not much of a novel but probably a reasonable memoire
By Bernard M. Patten
There's a group out there consisting mainly of men who like to watch women smoke, like to hear them talk about smoking, and like to read about their experiences, trials, pleasures, and problems with cigarettes. These people want to know all the details about what brand, the inhales, exhales, dangles, type of light up, etc. Multiple websites, videos, telephone chats, and even a newspaper are available (for a price, for a price). This book's first 100 pages holds that kind of interest for those kind of people. Along the way we learn all about how she smoked in high school and how she sparked up her Capri Menthols, Virginia Slims, and More lights. Alas, after Shapiro quit and becomes a Nicotine Nazi, she becomes far less interesting and toward the end of the journey a real shrew complaining about all the little pleasures that her friends and relatives are having drinking, eatting candy, cookies, fatty foods, coffee. Good grief! Do people like her really exist? If so, I would avoid them like the plague. The midplot squeeze is weak and boring and this character Winters (the therapist) makes little sense. He seems perfect in getting the patients to drop their dependencies on everything by transferring the dependency to him (for a price, for a price). Do New York therapists get $175 an hour for handing out this kind of hokum? Yes, they probably do and therefore this book succeeds as a sort of social document of the kind of life some desperately unhappy people do lead. The ennui of the book reflects the ennui of their lives and therefore the book is about the real New York scene. By the by, I don't think Shapiro was truly addicted to anything. She's obscessed with things, but addiction is a whole different kettle of fish according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Because you like to smoke, or drink, or eat certain foods does not mean you are addicted. The overwhelming situation is use of things (including alcohol, tobacco, and even drugs) and not abuse of things.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Amazing
By Reader99
I started this book on Friday and could not put it down, finished it on Sunday and felt sad when I hit the last page. As I began reading, I realized I would need paper and pencil to take notes to use in my own life. My whole life I've been surrounded by people who smoke and drink, and I made a conscious effort not to become one of "those people." But after I read this book, I realized I'm no better; that I have addictions of my own that have nothing to do with "controlled substances." This book sheds a lot of light on how to live through suffering so one can come out the other end feeling like a better person for it. Susan's writing is so down to earth that you will see yourself in her no matter who you are. Dr. Winters is a big player in the book, but it's the way Susan takes the wheel of her own life that makes you want to cheer for her and ask yourself why the hell you've waited so long to face what makes you "suffer" the most.
Dr. Winters said that underneath any addiction is a deep depression. Read it and find out what it means to you.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Read it up!
By The Inveterate Reader
A fun, insightful, and challenging memoir by a New York writer who worked with a therapist to quit smoking. Along with quitting smoking, her therapist, Dr. Winters, helped her kick all self-medication and urged her to "sit with" and experience her emotions and feelings. It is a very interesting look at addiction recovery outside of the 12step paradigm. Highly recommended!
See all 80 customer reviews...
Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex, by Susan Shapiro PDF
Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex, by Susan Shapiro EPub
Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex, by Susan Shapiro Doc
Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex, by Susan Shapiro iBooks
Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex, by Susan Shapiro rtf
Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex, by Susan Shapiro Mobipocket
Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex, by Susan Shapiro Kindle
Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex, by Susan Shapiro PDF
Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex, by Susan Shapiro PDF
Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex, by Susan Shapiro PDF
Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex, by Susan Shapiro PDF
