Don't forget that a lot of these mood changes and symptoms are due the fact that your body is used to the nicotine AKA withdrawal.
If any of the medications help by all means use them, nicotine gum, patches whatever. But the gum and like are just a substitute nicotine but help break the physical motions of smoking.
Everyone has their own way of quitting. It's easy to quit, staying quit is the hard part.
Heck, two years after having a smoke I was in the car and my hand reached for my shirt pocket to grab a Marlboro
That's how automatic it is wired in your brain.
It was the weirdest thing. I smoked a lot in the car/driving.
If any of the medications help by all means use them, nicotine gum, patches whatever. But the gum and like are just a substitute nicotine but help break the physical motions of smoking.
Everyone has their own way of quitting. It's easy to quit, staying quit is the hard part.
Heck, two years after having a smoke I was in the car and my hand reached for my shirt pocket to grab a Marlboro

It was the weirdest thing. I smoked a lot in the car/driving.