For me I notice it helps because I'm more often looking for, and calculating, forcing moves during my games.
It doesn't mean I'm necessarily winning pieces and pawns with tactics all the time, but I am checking threats (both mine and my opponent's) more often.
Of course learning the patterns also helps a lot. Sometimes when I AM winning pieces/pawns with tactics, it's because I knew to look for a pattern I'd trained with puzzles.
Been doing chess tactics for a while like everyday how I start applying it to my games I'm playing? Any help please