Do you consider this technique “BAD”?

Question

Sometimes you need to skip execution of part of a method under certain non-critical error conditions. You can use exceptions for that, but exceptions generally are not

Answer 1

If splitting code between if(!isGood) break; into separate functions, one can end up with dozens of functions containing of just a couple of lines, so that doers not simplify anything. I could not use return because I am not ready to leave the function, there is still stuf I want to do there. I accept that probably I should just settle for separate if(isGood) {...} condition for every code part which I want to execute, but sometimes that would lead to A LOT of curly braces. But I guess I accept that people does not really like that type of construction, so conditions for everything winds!
Thanks for your answers.