I've been smoking two packs of cigaretts a day for the last 15 years. I decided to quit two and a half months ago before my second child was born. I thought about using the E cigarette but decided against it. I used the patch for about two weeks until I forgot to put it on one morning and started to go into panic mode when I got to work. After that I said the hell with all those nicotine substitutes, and I haven't had a cigarette in two and a half months now. It has actually been one of the easiest habits I've ever broken surprisingly!!
And I really don't think it's the nicotine that's the real problem with quitting, it's all the other crap that in there.