So I started taking these patches back but I was 23 years old, and at that point haven't smoked for about eight years. Pack a day by my 19th birthday. I truly wanted to quit but I really loved smoking. I worked at a restaurant and it was my only time for break was to go have a cigarette. Beyond the addiction, it was like it was entitled for me to take that time. But after "growing up" it just seems like it was time to take a step back and not spend as much money and do something good for myself for a change. I first started off reading Alan Carrs "easy method for quitting smoking" (sic) book, and read it covered cover. I still remember all the important context from it and believe it was a very instrumental part of my success in quitting smoking. After reading his book I tried to quit and failed very miserably I think I went 40 hours or something without a cigarette. I also think that's a very important step in your success is your failure. So I went back to smoking and felt defeated and didn't think there would ever be a way out, but lucky for me I still wanted to explore other options and came across these patches. I had heard of the ingredients in these patches but I'm not a scientist by any means. But I do know that nicotine patches are very counterintuitive. Why reintroduce the substance you're trying to eliminate back into your body over and over again? It makes no sense. You can attribute smoking to the nature of habit, but to ignore the chemical dependency is unacceptable. Now this is where this reviews can start feeling a little scripted, so please forgive me but I ensure you, what I'm about to tell you is true. I surely believe that the supplemental things helped me big time with my being able to quit smoking. I'm not sure if it was a combination of things, or the sequence that I did what I did, but I feel extremely lucky in my results. As soon as I put this patch on, I could almost feel myself achieving my goals of quitting. There was a distinct feeling that I could define to you, but a feeling nonetheless. The best way to describe it is an overwhelming feeling of "I don't care" came to me and I didn't feel like I needed to smoke. It was great, I just didn't care! I continued to wear the patch is just as direct did in one day turn in to day two, day two turned into day four, and before I knew it I was two weeks quit. I didn't get through the whole box I probably still have five patches left. And also, this is very important and I can't stress this enough, you have to want to quit smoking. Let me clarify what I mean by this, I still remember I used to love to smoke, a lot. But even though I loved it, that didn't mean I still wanted to do it. I still understood the negative consequences of what I was doing and how dumb it was, then ultimately learned to separate myself fro loving it and wanting it. That concept might seem strange to you now, but it won't be until you achieve it that you will fully understand I really hope somebody will read this review notice my passion for this product and will take my advice and be on the way to quitting smoking. If I can help just one person achieve that goal this long drawnout review would be worth it :-D