and quit smoking all together, it might be cool or to look good, but it is NOT cool fun and it doesnt help other people and alot of people hate it, and it piles my job up to much!

Hi im a 20 year old female, i have smoked for 4 years but have quit since iv been getting pains. i get a sharp pain on the left side of the upper part of my chest... between my breastbone and collarbone. i have had pains on my shoulders back and stomach all on my left side so i thought i may have just pulled something or slept funny but the pains are stil there. has anyone had anything like that? i hate the doctors and im hoping it just goes away!

hi im a 15 year old male and have been smoking 8 months and when i started to gradully cut back but as i did this i got some wicked pain in my upper left chest it hurt for about three days but then went away like most of the people on this site said it hurt when i moved or breathed in a certain way so anyone know wats up with this.

Im a 18 year old male have been smoking since maybe 13/14 way too young anyway for about a year now ive been getting weird sharp pains in my chest 'usualy' left side Im one of them guys who wont just go to the doctors unless i know theres something seriously rong, and at the moment it is just on and off, but when the pain comes it really hurts and have to lie a certain way in bed, but reading all the posts on here have eased my mind a little bit, thought i was the only 1

I am 28 years old started smoking at the age 14 i have head chest pain only 3 times and it did not come back any more.Does it means i maybe at risk?

I've had the chest pain in the left side of the lung, sharp like a knife, yadda yadda. Well...now I'm feeling something else. I'm almost certain it has happened before and went away eventually, but still....it kind of feels like bruises, as though someone beat the hell out of my ribcage, but only at the bottom. As I said, it's a hardcore pain like the feeling of a bruise only around the BOTTOM V'S of my lungs. Both of them. Only at the bottom, like where your lungs "curve". There is also some pain BETWEEN my ribs, in the middle. I find that especially strange since...well....that's not where my lungs are! I just don't know. I've only been a smoker for 5 years, but I feel like I may have done 10 years worth of damage already. I don't have health insurance so I really don't know what I'm going to do. Maybe this pain will go away, I really hope so. Oh, and I have a weird shortness of breath. I've had plenty of breath shortness before, but it feels different this time.