Getting the bad bits of stomach cut out helped a lot. What was worse was the oesophageal stricturing and weight loss I didn't need. No booze, no spices, but I don't miss that crap anyway. But at least when my lungs collapsed during the third surgery, the ventilator cleaned out all the air pollution and cigarette garbage out (three decades of the latter) from my lungs ... just in time. I used to have a deep, barking cough that started after I worked for a couple years in a plastics injection mold factory. :P If I still had that with this covid shit, I wouldn't be allowed anywhere.