Hello.
Im a newbie here, and I am smoke free for 2 weeks and a day today.
I myself am going through the anxiety stage now of quitting smoking. I am now getting the slight tighness in my chest and had an anxiety attack earlier today. Its hard but after reading a lot and getting better knowledge of what to expect and what my body is going to go through, I basically did what chinacat had wrote. Stop, acknowledge,clear the mind, and breathe.
Its tough. I know the anxiety part is effecting me in weird ways and some times making me wonder whats going on with me. But I always remind myself, that its my body healing and riding itself of all the garbage smoking has done. Like many people have wrote and read many times on other sites, if it gets worse, go see your Doctor.
I am doing the quitting cold turkey. Just drinking water and juice, eating right, chewing gum and keeping my hands busy with a lighter to kind of imatate a cigarette. So far its working but the physical withdrawals are getting a little hard. If they persist at the end of the week, then I will see my Doctor or go to the hospitol.
If you feel your at a point that you no longer can't control in any way, go see a Doctor.
Good Luck.
