LIGHTING UP: HOW I STOPPED SMOKING, DRINKING AND EVERYTHING ELSE I LOVED IN LIFE EXCEPT SEX(A MEMOIR)
Book ID/图书代码： 03830505B08792
English Summary/英文概要： 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 十三岁开始Susan Shapiro就吸烟了，一天两包，四十岁的她开始意识到她与香烟之间的情感是所有感情中建立的时间最长，也是精神上最令人慰籍的一次。她去看了Daniel Winters医生，Daniel是一位才华横溢的戒烟专家，Daniel告诉Susan让她戒烟恐怕是戒烟史上最艰难的一个案例吧。
Susan最后还是把烟给戒了，但是她却发现她刚刚摆脱了这样一个魔掌之后，她又被另一个恶魔控制了。在戒了烟、酒、毒品、口香糖和面包之后，她征服了所有的恶魔。现在的Susan非常依赖Winters医生，但依赖的程度连她自己都不敢相信，现在她唯一还没戒掉的东西就是他了。
“Aaron想让你知道他很想念你，没有你他不能活。”Winter博士直勾勾地看着我，笑着说。
我转向我的前男友Aaron-----他一头卷发，六英尺四英寸高，六星期前我们刚刚分手。他毫无表情。和他一起坐在躺椅上真的很尴尬。三年了我一直恳求他陪我去看Goode医生。他坚决不肯，说情感上的豁然开朗会毁了他的事业----他是位电视喜剧作家。
“他很高兴你今天可以来这”Winters继续说。
“你是谁呀，大鼻子情圣吗？”我问道。
这样的情形非常古怪，因为就像我告诉Aaron的那样，我们之间的关系已经正式结束了，这样一段历时三年之长在分处东西两地的情感太辛苦、太紊乱了。
“Aaron说你现在和别人约会了。”---Winters博士说
我点了点头，觉得听恐惧的。以前我只对女精神病医生吐露心声。我遇到过的男医生们都是上了年纪的犹太人；我承认在还没走进Winters的办公室就觉得他年轻、与众不同，很挑逗。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Susan Shapiro’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, The Nation, Cosmopolitan, People, and many other publications. She lives with her husband in Greenwich Village, where she teaches writing at New York University and the New School.
Susan Shapiro的文章经常出现在纽约时报，洛杉矶时报，乡村之音The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Nation等很多杂志上发表。她和丈夫住在格林威治，她在纽约大学教写作。
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