I had quit for over 2 weeks using the patch. Today I relapsed. I tried going from step 1 (21mg) to step 2 (14mg). This sucks. I feel less depressed and angry, but it always sucks to relapse on nicotine. But it was like when I smoked that cigarette, so many mood problems associated with quitting went away. I don't want to continue smoking, but it's also very hard to quit. I just can't do it with the patches, but what I've heard about suicides from chantix, I don't want to do that either. Anyone quit with bipolar successfully? It just seems to impossible for me.