Again in 2015, Nelson confessed that he determined to endure a controversial therapy to attempt to assist heal his lungs after years of smoking.
“I’ve smoked plenty of cigarettes, and I’ve had emphysema and pneumonia 4 or 5 occasions, so my lungs had been actually screwed up,” he advised The Washington Submit. “I had heard that this stem cell operation can be good for them. So, I mentioned, ‘Properly, I am gonna attempt it out.'”
4 years later, Nelson mentioned he gave up smoking cigarettes totally to “take higher care of myself,” in an interview with KSAT in San Antonio, Texas.
“I’ve abused my lungs fairly a bit previously, so respiratory is a bit more troublesome as of late,” he famous. “I’ve to watch out.”
On the time, his publicist Elaine Schock confirmed to Folks that whereas he gave up nicotine, he nonetheless tastes “the flower,” referring to his famed marijuana use, and “doesn’t smoke any extra or any much less [weed]” than he did previous to quitting cigarettes.