Upbeat, positive and joking to the bitter end . No, he never considered stopping but IMO it was more a matter of hardened addiction to nicotine than anything else.. Difficult to understand why things happen the way they happen..I have to just remember the laughs we shared and the things we had commonality for , the most important being Irish, Goldtent and Belize. He talked so much of his dream of bringing his sweetie to Belize to live their final years out with people he adored.