nic just read your,[this post ],,by colin,, am i going to die posted last sept,,,i have been feeling short of breat for 4 or 5 days..but on sunday i had to take an extra intake off breat most off the day,put in down to not smoking,,this morning i realey found it hard to catch my breat,,luckley i had to see my doctor at 9 30 about my arthritis,,said to my doc i never felt like this when i was smoking,it makes you went to go back to smoking,,she said why would you went to do that and looked at me and said,,in her words not mine,,its the s--t leaving your body,but to make sure everything is ok i will send you for an x ray to good hope hospital,had my x ray. have to wait 5 working days,,i am a bit worried at the moment because i was never short of breat in my life,,makes you think why we stop smoking when we get all of these bad side afects,,,need all off your resureance to why we dont smoke any more ,trying to keep the faith tony,,sorry i went on a bit