Hello Annie, Wanted to share that I found out you cannot cut the patches in half, it makes them release it all at once. Hopefully that will help. I am off of them for a moment, they were out of the smaller dose patches so I got the bigger dose and my skin did not like them at all. I have noticed while off that they do seem to help me alot so looking into the gum and saw a product called pixotine that is toothpicks so may try those. Good luck