Offers a step-by-step guide to breaking any kind of addiction by understanding the emotional forces that drive it, in a book that includes special sections for families and health-care professionals.

"With special sections for families and health-care professionals"--Cover.

pt. 1. A new way to understand addiction -- The steps. How to know if you have an addiction -- How to think about yourself if you have an addiction -- Recognizing the key moment in addiction -- How to keep yourself from seeing the addiction ahead of you -- Understanding what is happening at the key moment in addiction -- Short-term strategies for dealing with addiction -- How to deal with addiction in the long term -- Test yourself -- Living with someone who has an addiction -- For the professional.