How long do anxiety/trauma related symptoms take to go away I had a pretty crazy experience with nicotine a couple weeks ago. Been using cigars for the past 5 months (quit after this experience) and each time my nic sickness/reactions got progressively worse until my last cigar a couple weeks ago. Had it at 6:30 pm, and I felt lingering reaction throughout the night, up until 2 am, I woke up feeling numb every where, arms, legs, tongue, face, disconnection from body like I was out of body. I tell my dad I need to go to the ER because I thought I was dying. Basically discharged me with panic disorder, I didn’t believe them at the time, so throughout the week I progressively had worse and worse panic responses and probably gave myself more symptoms from my body, mind, and heart being in overdrive constantly. So I spent the week in and out of doctor visits, ER visits, scans and tests, and everything said I was completely fine, and that I was honestly in nearly perfect health.…