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

After a 27-year two-pack-a-day smoking habit (from age 13 to 40), journalist Susan Shapiro decides it's time to quit once and for all. She turns to the oddly effective psychiatrist who convinced her boyfriend of many years to finally propose. he thinks, if he got her married, he can do anything. The brilliant doctor writes notes to her on the back of his business cards, like "Don't Trust Any Impulse," "You're Always Wrong," "Sex for Medicinal Purposes," and "Crying is Good." Nicotine, however, turns out to be only the tip of the iceberg. Soon, all of the things Susan loves--cigarettes, alcohol, gum, bread, and even the occasional joint--are off limits. But will visits to the shrink be the hardest addiction she's ever had to break?