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

Susan Shapiro became addicted to her shrink Dr. Woolverton when he helped her quit twenty-seven-year smoking and drinking habits and start writing successfully. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, andPeople, and on Salon.com. She is the author of seven books, including Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Speed Shrinking (currently optioned for films), and the memoir, Lighting Up, about her successful addiction therapy. She is a journalism professor who teaches the popular instant gratification takes too long writing method at the New School, New York University, and in private workshops and seminars. Visit her at www.susanshapiro.net.