Cardio fears

So I’ve been having extreme anxiety the past 6 weeks to where I don’t even leave the house and mostly just stay on the couch. Plus I smoke cigarettes (maybe a half-3/4 of a pack a day). My bad panic started when I started having chest pains, but everyone reassured me I was too young to have a heart attack. Then a few weeks later a girl my age (21) died of a heart attack so I have been obsessing over it since then. I’ve had several EKGs and then had chest X-ray, blood work, and saw a cardiologist for an echocardiogram about a month ago. They said everything looked normal, But I’m still having chest pains and severe anxiety so I’m worried I’ve made myself worse because of the constant panic and stress and not eating good and smoking cigarettes and sitting around a lot. I’m constantly thinking that I’m about to have a heart attack and it’s terrifying. I try to go for walks but then I get anxious and dizzy and stop. Could things have changed that fast? Should I see the cardiologist again? My chest pains kinda feel like a tightness or squeezing on the left side of my chest (can’t tell if it’s the breast muscle or my heart) and sometimes a sharper pain in the center of my chest. And sometimes it feels like I can’t breathe that well but I can’t tell if it’s anxiety or not. It’s like I spend every day waiting to have a heart attack. Plus I’m exhausted but can’t tell if that’s just because I just restarted Zoloft about a week ago or because somethings wrong with my heart . It’s like every little thing makes me more sure that I’m about to have a heart attack. My hands and feet get super cold and sometimes my nose too. And I feel like any amount of stress or one more panic attack is gonna make me have a heart attack. I feel insane because I literally picture it all day even when I try to do something else to distract myself  

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