So, yes and no. "Effect" is usually a noun and "affect" is usually a verb. Where the confusion arises is the fact that usually means there are instances (and plenty of them) where "effect" is a verb and "affect" is a noun.
Affect as a noun: The patient had a flat affect during intake.
Effect as a verb: The protestors sought to effect changes in governance.
Effect as a noun: The effect of the tornado was devastating.
Affect and effect as nouns are easier to differentiate: affect tends to refer to manner (usually either appearance or voice) and tends to be used in much a more formal register. Effect as a noun, meaning the end result, is more common in everyday speech and writing.
The verb forms are where things get dicey as there's considerably more semantic overlap. Affect as a verb has a broad meaning roughly corresponding with impact, change, act on, etc. Effect is much narrower and means to bring about a thing. There's a much more active meaning to "effect" as a verb and generally occurs in more specific environment, eg accompanied by "change" or "solution" etc. as its object.
If we bring up one of my sample sentences and change the verbs:
So, even though there's semantic overlap with the two words, these sentences actually mean the opposite thing as "affect" here is more reactionary. See, now I'm geeking out because there's a whole implied timeline with just one verb switched-- and the tense hasn't even changed!
Anyways, sorry this reply was so long-- it became less and less a direct response to you and more of a general thing for this subthread.
TL;DR: Affect and Effect are BOTH verbs and nouns, just pay attention to verbal use as that's where they get confusing.