Celebrating YOU: This week’s spotlights [April 8, 2026]

Completely happy “Highlight Wednesday”!

At present, I’m excited to share with you a few of this week’s most inspiring success tales and suggestions from the CBQ neighborhood.

Let’s dive in!

Inspiring Milestone

At present, CBQ Stop Smoking Program member Evelyn Neiman Inexperienced from North Carolina, US, is celebrating 7 years smoke-free! Evelyn was a smoker for 40 years. Her husband additionally smoked.

As Evelyn instructed me herself, she had tried to give up earlier than utilizing nicotine patches and e-cigarettes, however she at all times went again to smoking. Her husband went from smoking to vaping and nonetheless does each.

That’s how Evelyn knew she wanted one thing totally different: a course of. She joined the CBQ Program, did each step of the method, and broke free from nicotine although her husband smokes.

7 years later, Evelyn is doing so properly that she even forgot how lengthy she’d been a non-smoker! Since quitting smoking, she has additionally modified her consuming habits and has improved her life in each method! Unimaginable story!

Inspiring Success

This week, CBQ Stop Smoking Program member Amber Morton Lyon from Connecticut, US, celebrated 4 years smoke-free!

Amber was a smoker for a decade earlier than lastly deciding to give up so she might have a child. Whereas searching for methods to give up, she got here throughout the CBQ Program and determined to hitch, however nonetheless believed that she couldn’t do it.

Regardless of her doubts, she dedicated to this system and adopted each step. She succeeded!

4 years later, she’s nonetheless a cheerful non-smoker… and a mother!

That is what she shared just lately:

Just a few days in the past, Amber shared a message to everybody: It really works when you work it.

That is Amber holding her CBQ Success Certificates:

Inspiring Milestone – Vape-free

This week, CBQ Stop Smoking Program member Angela Ernst Lyon from California, US, celebrated 2 years vape-free!

Angela used to smoke for 16 years earlier than switching to vaping and tried other ways to give up, however nothing labored. She knew how vaping was holding her again, so she saved looking out till she discovered the CBQ Program.

After becoming a member of the CBQ Program, she dedicated. And after simply at some point in this system, she knew, it will be totally different.

In her personal phrases, “Remarkably, after simply at some point with this system, I felt a profound shift in my perspective; I knew this was the answer I had been looking for.”

After Day 10 of this system, she give up!

And now, 2 years after her give up date, Angela remains to be vape-free!

That is Angela holding her CBQ Success Certificates:

Inspiring Journey

This week, CBQ Stop Smoking Program member Francine Doyon from Ontario, Canada, celebrated 7 years smoke-free! A lifelong smoker, Francine broke free after becoming a member of the CBQ Stop Smoking Program. She hasn’t smoked a cigarette since.

After 7 years, she’s nonetheless smoke-free and loving it.

Francine’s tip? Begin small.

One of many workouts within the CBQ Stop Smoking Program is to delay the primary cigarette of the day utilizing mindpower, not willpower. That train was exactly what gave Francine the “aha” second that she will succeed! And he or she did!

“The perfect factor I did was delaying the primary cig of the day. It helped my thoughts notice that I might abstain from smoking for 8+ hours. Ultimately I made it to lunch, then after dinner after which simply earlier than mattress. Ultimately i felt so sick having just some drags it was straightforward to simply go for the total 24 hours and I by no means regarded again.”

That is Francine along with her CBQ Success Certificates:

Tip of the Week

This week’s tip comes from CBQ Stop Smoking Program member Dan DeVeronica from New York, US, who has been smoke-free for over 4 years!

Dan’s tip: Do it for your self.

That is what he just lately shared:

“I give up with this program however I needed to do it for me. I needed to notice that smoking… it didnt destress me, it didnt assist me really feel higher, it didnt do something for me besides assist in my very own private quest for destruction. I needed to notice that each single factor that urged me to smoke wished me lifeless. As soon as I accepted that fact, with the assistance of this system, it was straightforward. I don’t need to destroy myself for something. Not a annoying coworker, a crappy job, cash points, nothing. I need to stay and repair the issues that prompted me to smoke, not exacerbate my points with a fast launch that can solely compound different issues that I wouldn’t have had if I by no means began.”

I hope right now’s spotlights impressed you and confirmed you that you may additionally break away! A giant 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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