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Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex
Author: Susan Shapiro
Overview
What happens when your longest, most satisfying relationship is with cigarettes? For Manhattan journalist Susan Shapiro, a two-pack-a-day smoker since age thirteen, that realization at forty sparked a wild journey into the world of recovery and clean living.
In Lighting Up, Shapiro hilariously and candidly chronicles her attempt to give up not just smoking, but also alcohol, marijuana, gum, bread—and even her reliance on her eccentric therapist, Dr. Winters, dubbed the “James Bond of psychotherapy.” With razor-sharp wit and vulnerability, she captures the highs, lows, and absurdities of quitting her lifelong vices, all while navigating marriage, career, and self-discovery.
The result is a memoir that’s compulsively readable, outrageously funny, and deeply relatable—an addictive story about breaking addictions.
Why You’ll Love It
- A refreshingly honest and hilarious memoir of quitting multiple addictions.
- Explores the emotional and psychological challenges of recovery.
- Introduces unforgettable characters, including Shapiro’s unconventional therapist.
- Balances sharp humor with profound insights into dependency and healing.
- Written with wit, candor, and sophisticated storytelling.
Praise
"Shapiro’s wit and honesty elevate the work." — Publishers Weekly
"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." — Back Cover Review
About the Author
Susan Shapiro is an award-winning writing professor and journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Elle, Los Angeles Times, and O: The Oprah Magazine. She is the bestselling author or co-author of twelve books, including Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Unhooked, The Bosnia List, and The Byline Bible. She lives in Greenwich Village with her husband, a TV comedy writer, and teaches her popular “instant gratification takes too long” writing classes at The New School, NYU, and in private workshops.
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