Quote Originally Posted by sensistar
hello---old and new smokers..
Im 30 and lately after i smoke my heart sorta feel racey and i get this chest pain,it then leads to me halfass freakout ,where i got to stand up and do something to try to forget about it.
The part that bothers me the most is this strange feeling of forgetting how to breath sorta,,,that really sucks.
I know exactly what you're talking about. I'm not sure what causes it, but it certainly is unsettling. I pretty much gave up smoking because of it. There's no sense in smoking if it makes you feel like you're about to croak. I can tell you that it gets worse with age. It happened to me maybe one out of 100 times when I was 18...now that I'm 40, it's more like three out of ten.

What seems to help when it happens to me is Zantac 75, believe it or not. I have GERD and I think smoking aggravates it.

Good luck!