Everybody is different, so it's hard to say. The patch works by keeping a constant flow of nicotine in your system. It allows you to deal with changing up your routines, relearning the associations with smoking in different ways while your body gradually adjusts to life without the drug it has become used to getting. When you go cold turkey (what we here call Smart Turkey), the nicotine is out of your system in three days, and then it's a couple of weeks of your body adjusting to its new chemical balance. You will also be dealing with the triggers and associations at the same time you are withdrawing from the drug - but it does get it over with.
Hope this information is helpful to your decision!
Nancy
