Congratulations on 5 months! I’m just behind you at 4.5!
I’ve been using nicotine patches and have been going for a month. I was a monster to start with 
but levelling off now. Have tagged you in another thread and am going to link to it here too in case anyone else reading this wants to hop on:
Our quitting of cigarettes thread
My main tip, if you use patches, even the 24 hour ones, TAKE THEM OFF BEFORE BED. I made the mistake of putting a 24 hour patch on in the evening and had the most disturbing dreams! Like I had a dream within a dream and it messed me up for a couple of days