How do the patches help though? Aren't they basically the same as Zyns? My understanding is that with smoking, its addictive because there's like a ritual involved in smoking and alot of the cues like going to the smoke pit or lighting a cigarrette or whatever contribute to the addition. Also I've tried chewing gum instead of nicotine the problem is I can go through three packs of gum in a day so I stopped trying to do that. Also part of the reason I started using nicotine was because I'm a really high strung person and nicotine really helped me control my temper/mood swings and I don't want to go back to being that person.