2008, ISBN: 0743289595

[EAN: 9780743289597], New book, [PU: Free Press], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'I accepted the certainty of my untimely death with gallows humor and a c… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780743289597], New book, [PU: Free Press], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'I accepted the certainty of my untimely death with gallows humor and a calculator. I'd read somewhere that each cigarette you smoke knocks seven minutes off your time on the planet. To amuse myself, I did the math: 153,000 cigarettes = two years of my life, up in smoke.' Julia Hansen first lit up at nineteen. Twenty years later, she was editing books about health -- and smoking a pack or two a day. She denied her son fast food, but smoked in the house and car; curtailed his video games, but lit up at his soccer matches. Despite repeated attempts to quit, she always crawled back to her beloved menthol lights. Smoking had become a metaphorical chain around her neck, shackling her to an early death. Haunted by a nightmarish vision of her future -- her son at her deathbed, begging her not to leave him -- Hansen devised a drastic quit method. She bought a 72-foot length of chain that was 'unwieldy as a corpse' and locked herself to a radiator in her dining room. What followed: seven days of cold-turkey misery, comic absurdity, and revelation as Hansen stepped from behind her wall of smoke to face her addiction to nicotine -- and some painful truths. Clanking around her house like Marley's ghost, white-knuckling cravings, and struggling to understand tobacco's unyielding grip on her, Hansen confronted her life in smoke: fractured relationships, lifelong battles with alcohol and depression, and a profound sense of emptiness. On day 1, the chain was her addiction to nicotine, each link a story about cigarettes and self-loathing. By day 7, it had revealed its ringing, rattling truth -- that every smoker has a story, and it always centers on clinging to a comfort that can kill you. In the end, Hansen's story was painfully simple: She smoked to survive her life. And then, to save it, she quit. Fierce and funny, honest and utterly absorbing, A Life in Smoke is Julia Hansen's evocative and inspiring account of the extreme measures she took to quit smoking -- decidedly not recommended by the medical profession. 304 pp. Englisch, Books<

2008, ISBN: 0743289595

[EAN: 9780743289597], Nieuw boek, [SC: 11.96], [PU: Free Press], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware -'I accepted the certainty of my untimely death with gallows humor and a calculator. … Mehr…

[EAN: 9780743289597], Nieuw boek, [SC: 11.96], [PU: Free Press], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware -'I accepted the certainty of my untimely death with gallows humor and a calculator. I'd read somewhere that each cigarette you smoke knocks seven minutes off your time on the planet. To amuse myself, I did the math: 153,000 cigarettes = two years of my life, up in smoke.' Julia Hansen first lit up at nineteen. Twenty years later, she was editing books about health -- and smoking a pack or two a day. She denied her son fast food, but smoked in the house and car; curtailed his video games, but lit up at his soccer matches. Despite repeated attempts to quit, she always crawled back to her beloved menthol lights. Smoking had become a metaphorical chain around her neck, shackling her to an early death. Haunted by a nightmarish vision of her future -- her son at her deathbed, begging her not to leave him -- Hansen devised a drastic quit method. She bought a 72-foot length of chain that was 'unwieldy as a corpse' and locked herself to a radiator in her dining room. What followed: seven days of cold-turkey misery, comic absurdity, and revelation as Hansen stepped from behind her wall of smoke to face her addiction to nicotine -- and some painful truths. Clanking around her house like Marley's ghost, white-knuckling cravings, and struggling to understand tobacco's unyielding grip on her, Hansen confronted her life in smoke: fractured relationships, lifelong battles with alcohol and depression, and a profound sense of emptiness. On day 1, the chain was her addiction to nicotine, each link a story about cigarettes and self-loathing. By day 7, it had revealed its ringing, rattling truth -- that every smoker has a story, and it always centers on clinging to a comfort that can kill you. In the end, Hansen's story was painfully simple: She smoked to survive her life. And then, to save it, she quit. Fierce and funny, honest and utterly absorbing, A Life in Smoke is Julia Hansen's evocative and inspiring account of the extreme measures she took to quit smoking -- decidedly not recommended by the medical profession. 304 pp. Englisch, Books<

2008, ISBN: 0743289595

[EAN: 9780743289597], Neubuch, [PU: Free Press], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware -'I accepted the certainty of my untimely death with gallows humor and a calculator. I'd read somewhe… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780743289597], Neubuch, [PU: Free Press], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware -'I accepted the certainty of my untimely death with gallows humor and a calculator. I'd read somewhere that each cigarette you smoke knocks seven minutes off your time on the planet. To amuse myself, I did the math: 153,000 cigarettes = two years of my life, up in smoke.' Julia Hansen first lit up at nineteen. Twenty years later, she was editing books about health -- and smoking a pack or two a day. She denied her son fast food, but smoked in the house and car; curtailed his video games, but lit up at his soccer matches. Despite repeated attempts to quit, she always crawled back to her beloved menthol lights. Smoking had become a metaphorical chain around her neck, shackling her to an early death. Haunted by a nightmarish vision of her future -- her son at her deathbed, begging her not to leave him -- Hansen devised a drastic quit method. She bought a 72-foot length of chain that was 'unwieldy as a corpse' and locked herself to a radiator in her dining room. What followed: seven days of cold-turkey misery, comic absurdity, and revelation as Hansen stepped from behind her wall of smoke to face her addiction to nicotine -- and some painful truths. Clanking around her house like Marley's ghost, white-knuckling cravings, and struggling to understand tobacco's unyielding grip on her, Hansen confronted her life in smoke: fractured relationships, lifelong battles with alcohol and depression, and a profound sense of emptiness. On day 1, the chain was her addiction to nicotine, each link a story about cigarettes and self-loathing. By day 7, it had revealed its ringing, rattling truth -- that every smoker has a story, and it always centers on clinging to a comfort that can kill you. In the end, Hansen's story was painfully simple: She smoked to survive her life. And then, to save it, she quit. Fierce and funny, honest and utterly absorbing, A Life in Smoke is Julia Hansen's evocative and inspiring account of the extreme measures she took to quit smoking -- decidedly not recommended by the medical profession. 304 pp. Englisch, Books<

2008, ISBN: 0743289595

[EAN: 9780743289597], New book, [PU: Free Press], BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL MEMOIRS POLITIK GESELLSCHAFT WIRTSCHAFT BIOGRAPHIEN AUTOBIOGRAPHIEN, Über den AutorrnrnJulia Hanse… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780743289597], New book, [PU: Free Press], BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL MEMOIRS POLITIK GESELLSCHAFT WIRTSCHAFT BIOGRAPHIEN AUTOBIOGRAPHIEN, Über den AutorrnrnJulia Hansen was born in 1963 in Vineland, New Jersey. She lives in Reading, Pennsylvania, with her husband and son.Klappentextrnrn I accepted the certainty of my untimely death with gallows humo., Books<

2008, ISBN: 9780743289597

A Memoir, Buch, Softcover, [PU: The Free Press], Seiten: 304, The Free Press, 2008