A hard habit to break

The group Chicago, best known for their 1970's Jazz-Rock music, is one of my favorite bands. Their song, A Hard Habit to Break, however, is not one of my favorite tunes. My dislike of said tune is mostly due to it being mawkish -- and the lack of the band's epic Jazz vibrations in the ballad doesn't help -- but today as I type, I really don't like the song because it so aptly applies to my battle with tobacco.

As you may or may notknow (it depends on how often you read my windy ramblings) I "quit" smoking cigarettes about three weeks ago. The quit in quotation marks is because while I am...