 [ Symptoms ] i recently applied for medicaid should i continue to complete that process or go ahead and sign up in the marketplace  i am out of work and have no income [ Disease ] i used to smoke a similar amount and would often get pains in my chest on a morning sometimes lasting for a couple of hours i used to worry about them quite a lot so i quit smoking to see if it would relieve them the first couple of weeks after quitting the pains got worse but then stopped completely i have never experienced them since i am not a doctor though so i can not say that you are experiencing the same thing as me but it certainly sounds similar