Travis Barker's Shocking Reason for Quitting Weed Revealed

Travis Barker had a huge wake-up call that influenced his decision to stop smoking weed.

During a Wednesday, November 11, interview on the “Big Bro With Kid Cudi” podcast, Barker, 50, recalled that he once smoked 10 to 15 blunts a day, but a sobering diagnosis from his doctor helped him curb the habit.

“I only quit because I got diagnosed with precancer of the esophagus,” he shared with rapper Kid Cudi. “I loved blunts, and I would smoke too much. So that was the only thing. My doctor was like, ‘This is your warning shot, Trav. Don’t f*** around. You gotta stop smoking.’ Or I would have never stopped. I thought I could be like Willie Nelson and smoke ‘til the day I died.”