Learning about your anxiety disorder will make it much easier to live with the physical symptoms of anxiety and stress that are causing you many issues in your day to day life. Knowing all that you can know about panic attacks, anxiety, and fight or flight response will help you understand what is happening to your body when you have an anxiety attack. These are all normal feelings for anxiety attacks, you are not losing your mind or control, nor are you going crazy. The following things are some that can help you to cope with panic attacks:

1. Control your breathing, when you hyperventilate you can set off an entire chain of sensations that take place during an anxiety attack, such as dizziness, light headiness, and tightness of the chest. By practicing deep breathing and controlling your breathing you avoid or relieve these symptoms. This is a wonderful coping skill that you can use to calm yourself down when you start to feel anxious, before you are in a full blown panic attack.
2. Avoid smoking and caffeine; they can both provoke a panic attack in people who are prone to panic attacks. It is smart to avoid cigars, cigarettes, tea, coffee, chocolate, energy drinks and other caffeinated beverages, It is also a wise idea to avoid medications that contain stimulants such as diet pills and no drowsy cold medications
3. Relaxation techniques, such as yoga, progressive muscle relaxation, and mediation can work wonders in having the opposite reaction to anxiety, therefore relieving many of the physical symptoms of anxiety and stress.
4. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the behaviors and thinking patterns that are triggering your panic attacks, the things that set your fears off. By facing these fears and thinking Clearly about what is the worst thing that could happen if this fear were to come true, you can rationally see that nothing that terrifying is going to happen, then the anxiety attack seem to be less severe
5. Medication, in the most severe cases there are medications that can be used to help people with panic attacks cope, it is usually used in conjunction with other therapies and works best when the source of the anxiety attack has been identified. There are 2 main types of medications used, antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs. Of the two drug types, the anti-depressants sometimes take over a month to start to work, where the anti-anxiety medications work within an hour. They are however highly addictive and should be used with extreme caution  Ben Gilbert