My old man died of cancer but that wasn't the worst part of his death, that was the damage to his lungs from having smoked since he was 9 years old. He did quit when he was 39 but the damage was done, a lot of damage from two packs a day. His last month was awful what with him not being able to get enough air. If you smoke quit, it may save you some grief in the end.
In 1990 I was rear ended, bad accident, damaged my spine from one end to the other, been in constant pain ever since and every year, every month, every week, every day it gets worse. I thought at first it would go away like every other time I had been in a rear ender but it just didn't, I had a constant migraine headache, pain in my neck that didn't quit, numbness in my little finger and ring finger on bother hands and it felt like I had a worm crawling up and down the inside of my arm. Finally went to the doctor and things got much worse, some doctors know less than they think they know. I had physical therapy, trigger point injections, pain medication and still nothing much changed. Primary care doctor sent me to a new neurologist who put me on a whole new course of medication, same thing, no relief, she tells me it's because I'm not trying to get better, well excuse me for living through the accident. Next I get sent to a pain clinic, Narcotics Galore, LLC, yeah, really that's the name of the place. That's about all they did was prescribe was narcs and injections along the spine, didn't do much good. I quit all the narcs and went back to OTC pain meds. Prescription narcs have a place but for short term use only in most cases, ye, there are exceptions and I do have some on hand when I just can't stand it any more but the best advice is to limit there use as much as possible. If the script says to take one every six hours for pain, soon you will need two ever six hours for the pain, then what are you going to do when that doesn't provide any relief? It is a dangerous road to go down. Boy we sure got a long way from masks didn't we? Take care of your health, it is appointed unto man once to die and then the judgement, well, unless you are Hindu or Buddhist.