Kinda like Jeffb, I used the patch a few years ago and it worked more because of my dedication to stop analogs, my doctor informed me I had mild infazima And darn if you go through the complete therapy it's expensive! Anyway fast forward to 2009, a bad year, lost work, bankruptcy all the stuff a lot of us are going through, I was standing in the line at Wally World, looking at the smokes and thought, one can't hurt, 2 weeks later I was up to a half a pack a day.. lol darn those things are expensive! I don't remember how much I spent on patches but it was a lot now I have maybe a third invested in my PV stuff and for the first time since I was a kid, I don't want a smoke.. Patches never once gave me that, maybe they work for some people but not me..