“I quit smoking,” my first baseman said, knowing I would be impressed. “Wow,” I replied. “That’s great news Robert. How did you do it?”He lifted up his sleeve to show me he was wearing a nicotine patch on his arm. I was kind of surprised, because I don’t know many people who have ever quit with a system like that. Smoking, like most physical addictions, strikes me as more of a mental addiction when it is all said and done. But of course, I think virtually everything is mental…
