365 Days of Books

In A Life in Smoke: A Memoir Julie Hansen details her life around smokers and as a smoker. She examines what it means to be addicted and the pain deep inside that calls for the soothing that smoking can give her. Rather drastically, in order to quit smoking, she has herself chained to the radiator with a long chain for a week. Every morning her husband locks her to the long chain and leaves her alone with her thoughts, household chores, and daytime tv.

It's a hard, desperate story.