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Lighting Up: How I Stopped Smoking, Drinking, and Everything Else I Loved in Life Except Sex A Memoir

Description

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.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-07-09
Summary: "Profound"

I've never had any addictions. But I easily related to the themes of need, satiation, and having to be honest with ourselves when coping with these feelings. This was surprisingly profound and I recommend this to anyone who's open to examining how as people we deal with loss.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-02-19
Summary: "Smart, Funny, Addictive"

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.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2007-01-22
Summary: "Honest, funny, Couldn't Put it Down!"

I loved Susan Shapiro's book "Five Men Who Broke My Heart" and couldn't wait to pick this one. It didn't disappoint. She has a fresh, open, honest, and funny as hell voice that makes it less like reading a book and more like reading a good friend's journal. She's open about all her flaws and she just has a way of setting the scene that makes you feel like you were there in the room with her. I just started her latest book SECRETS OF A FIX-UP FANATIC and it's also fantastic. This is one of those books that once you start it, you can't put it down.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2007-01-20
Summary: "Enjoyed the hell out of this book"

I'm almost completely burnt out on memoirs. I have finally outgrown "chick lit" novels about protagonists turning 30. And didn't want to read some dry take on addiction. But I wasn't quite ready for a "serious" novel. Ergo, "Lighting Up" really hit the spot. I doubt the veracity of some of it, there are a few parts where she kind of contradicts herself, as if there were two different versions of the story and it didn't all get smoothed out during the editing.

But it comes down to this: I couldn't put it down, I laughed and I CARED and that says a lot.

p.s. folks who have problems with the fact that Shapiro is self-absorbed might want to avoid books where people fully admit their problems are not earth-shattering in the grand scheme of things.

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2007-01-03
Summary: "car wreck"

Shapiro is a late comer to the genre of the self-help, diaristic memoir. Nonetheless she has not learned anything from those who have written in this territory before her. The book is an extended magazine article, as if putting her text in quotations as conversation makes it a novel. But it is so filled with self absorbed congratulatory writing that it becomes somewhat perverse in its hold over the reader--like the magnetic attraction of a car wreck. In the book Shapiro is an attractive (?) forty-two year old woman who has sex with her husband (which is apparently a big deal for her. I predict her husband will dump her for another woman before she is fifty), becomes smarter than her therapist, and becomes a successful writer with a perfect extended family. Except no children because she was too busy obsessing about herself during child bearing years. Who has empathy for this protaganist? With her luck I expect to see this book as a made-for-TV movie very soon. Hallmark channel.