Celebrating YOU: This week’s spotlights [May 6, 2026]

Glad “Highlight Wednesday”!

As we speak, I’m excited to share with you a few of this week’s most inspiring success tales and ideas from the CBQ group.

Let’s dive in!

Inspiring Milestone

As we speak, CBQ Nicotine Freedom Program member Carol Poste from Ontario, Canada, celebrates 4 years smoke-free!

Carol was a smoker for practically 50 years and suffered from persistent ache. For years, she used smoking as a ache aid till she discovered that smoking was making her persistent ache worse! Carol shared that her surgeon instructed her, “that my backbone disks have deteriorated from smoking all these years!!!” With the stress and stress of an upcoming backbone surgical procedure, Carol began searching for methods to stop smoking. After assessing all her choices, she determined to affix the CBQ Program, and the remainder is historical past!

After 4 years, she remains to be a contented non-smoker!

That is what Carol lately shared with our group:

That is Carol together with her CBQ Success Certificates:

Inspiring Transformation

This week, CBQ Nicotine Freedom Program member Valerie Bennett from England, UK, is celebrating 7 years smoke-free!

Val’s transformation has been inspirational, to say the least. She used to smoke two packs a day for 40 years. As she instructed me throughout our Ask An Ex interview, she didn’t get off the bed within the morning earlier than smoking two cigarettes together with her espresso.

In the future, whereas looking Fb, Val got here throughout the CBQ Methodology and, after numerous analysis, determined to affix the CBQ program. She stop “chilly turkey” throughout this system as a result of she simply didn’t need to smoke anymore and has not appeared again ever since. In her personal phrases, “I’m so happy with this achievement – from being in a spot the place I believed it will be inconceivable to now with the ability to get up understanding I’m now a nonsmoker and might accomplish that way more with my life and really feel so a lot better.”

7 years later, Val remains to be a contented non-smoker!

You possibly can watch our Ask An Ex interview to study extra about Val’s story right here:

Inspiring Milestone

This week, CBQ Nicotine Freedom Program member Ashley Schmitt from Colorado, US, celebrated 4 years smoke-free!

Ashley needed to stop smoking so she might be at liberty. After months of attempting totally different strategies and instruments to assist her stop, she felt caught. However regardless of the setbacks, Ashley remained decided to interrupt free.

After studying in regards to the CBQ Methodology, she determined to strive the CBQ Program to stop smoking. As she labored via this system and related with the help group, she started to grasp that smoking was an emotional attachment and a craving that might by no means be glad, and he or she discovered to interrupt this attachment. She stayed dedicated even via troublesome moments in her life, and on Might third at 9:07 PM, Ashley took her final puff and has remained smoke-free since.

That is what Ashley stated on her 2-year milestone about her journey:

“As of Might third I’ve formally been QUIT for two years. I like the help group they’ve on Fb. My causes for quitting had been freedom and air to breathe. This program even made me curious about conventional cognitive behavioral remedy as a result of its such an fascinating technique. Thanks once more Nasia!”

4 years later, Ashley remains to be a contented non-smoker!

Right here’s Ashley together with her CBQ Success Certificates:

Inspiring Milestone

This week, CBQ Nicotine Freedom Program member Scott Hanson from Illinois, US, celebrated 3 years smoke-free!

Earlier than Scott began his stop journey, he made a promise to himself: he would use the cash saved from smoking to purchase a brand new guitar. He took it as a problem, however after becoming a member of the CBQ Program, he was stunned by how simple quitting felt. As he shared, “It has been no the place close to as laborious as I believed it will be. It was really very simple to quit smoking.“

Just some months after quitting, Scott rewarded himself with not only one however two guitars!

As he shared, “Two actually good issues from quitting. One, total I’m more healthy and two, the cash I’ve saved has allowed me to purchase two new guitars. Due to everybody for the help. The CBQ program is nice.”

Three years later, Scott remained smoke-free!

That is Scott along with his CBQ Success Certificates:

Inspiring Milestone

This week, CBQ Nicotine Freedom Program member Barb DiNezza from New York, US, celebrated 3 years smoke-free!

After years of attempting other ways to stop with out success, Barb began to consider that perhaps quitting wasn’t potential for her. And when she discovered in regards to the CBQ Program, she didn’t count on one other quit-smoking technique to work in another way from every thing else she had already tried. Nonetheless, she determined to provide it an opportunity, and whereas she’s doing this system, Barb determined to take her time to totally take up the data and perceive every step within the course of.

One of many greatest adjustments for Barb after quitting wasn’t simply turning into smoke-free however realizing how a lot her mindset had modified. In her personal phrases, “Even being beneath a number of stress this previous week I knew having a butt would do nothing to make me really feel higher, in contrast to the previous.”

That is what Barb shared about her journey:

“Smoke free now for over a yr. It doesn’t cross my thoughts anymore to smoke. Even when I’m having life challenges. I doubled the time doing this system. I positively assume that helped so I might take up all the data that was there. Thanks Nasia for the CBQ program.”

After 3 years, Barb remains to be a contented non-smoker! That is what she shared lately:

Inspiring Milestone

This week, CBQ Nicotine Freedom Program member Kimberly Trager from Louisiana, US, celebrated 6 months smoke-free!

Kimberly smoked for 50 years, and over time, she started to acknowledge that smoking was solely contributing to her nervousness as an alternative of calming it. Able to make a change, she started researching methods to stop smoking and found the CBQ Program. She determined to affix and decide to the method.

She hasn’t had one single puff since she accomplished this system. As she shared, “My cravings are simply fleeting ideas, which helps me greater than I anticipated in not lighting up. Thanks for this program. I’m lastly smoke-free after over 50 years!!!!”

6 months later, Kimberly is a proud, blissful non-smoker!

That is Kimberly together with her CBQ Success Certificates:

I hope at this time’s spotlights impressed you and confirmed you which you could additionally break away! An enormous thanks to our members who gave me permission to share their tales with you.

To your freedom,

Nasia Davos (MBPsS, IPPA, MA)
Ex-Smoker, Psychologist, Creator of the CBQ Methodology™

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