Celebrating YOU: This week’s spotlights [July 23, 2025]

Joyful “Highlight Day”!

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

Let’s dive in!

Inspiring Milestone

Two days in the past, the inspiring CBQ Give up Smoking Program member Sarah Walters from England, UK, celebrated 4 years smoke-free. Sarah was a smoker for 26 years. For a lot of of these years, she tried to give up a number of instances with give up smoking approaches from nicotine gums and patches to hypnosis and all the pieces in between. Nothing labored. After attending the free CBQ webinar, Sarah knew the CBQ Technique might work for her and determined to affix the CBQ Give up Smoking Program. She dedicated to the method with an open thoughts, did her greatest… and the remainder is historical past!

Now, Sarah is saving over £2,000 yearly she’s smoke-free. (Over 9k saved in whole!)

Above all, she’s actually achieved with smoking. She has no cravings and although her husband smokes, she’s not even triggered. That’s freedom!

That is what Sarah shared yesterday about her smoke-free life:

And that is Sarah together with her CBQ Success Certificates. (Her smile is infectious!)

Inspiring Transformation

This week, CBQ Give up Smoking Program member and musician Andre Burns from Ontario, Canada, celebrated 5 years smoke-free and marijuana-free! Andre began smoking when he was simply 10 years outdated. It was at a time (Seventies and Nineteen Eighties) after they made it very straightforward to smoke.

As Andre advised me throughout our Ask An Ex interview (extremely suggest watching it!), his father used to smoke. And it was frequent observe again then for a mum or dad to ship their baby to the nook retailer with cash and a word to purchase cigarettes on their behalf. As a curious boy, Andre wished to attempt cigarettes after which began making his personal permission notes. By the point he was 14 years outdated, he was a full-time smoker. Although he not often smoked greater than 20 a day, he turned very hooked on cigarettes, which ultimately led to alcohol and weed dependencies.

After having tried all the pieces (drugs, patches, and different approaches) to give up smoking, weed, and alcohol, Andre discovered the CBQ Program and determined to present it a attempt. At first, his intention was to give up smoking with the CBQ Program. However after he went by the CBQ course of, Andre modified his thoughts and ended up quitting smoking, alcohol, and weed! He’s unimaginable, proper?

“June 14th, I give up ingesting, July twelfth, I give up smoking marijuana, and my give up date for smoking cigarettes was July twentieth.”

That was 5 years in the past!

As he mentioned, “Every thing that’s a part of the CBQ methodology. She has a course of movies that offer you a step-by-step method. I truly was given by a physician the entire give up smoking aids however that concerned taking drugs on a regular basis and coping with unwanted effects which I didn’t imagine in. Then I got here throughout Nasia’s program and have by no means been the identical. An excellent program that was precisely what I used to be in search of. I might suggest CBQ methodology to everybody!!!!!”

That is Andre holding his CBQ Success Certificates:

Inspiring Give up Smoking Advantages

CBQ Give up Smoking Program member Paddy Monaghan from Scotland, UK, celebrated 18 months smoke-free! And two days in the past, he shared with our members group how his life modified after quitting smoking.

He shared, “At this time marks 18 months since I binned the smokes — and I can actually say it’s probably the greatest selections I’ve ever made.

I used to undergo a 50g pouch of rolling tobacco each week — round £30 a go — not simply burning cash however burning my well being too.

However with the assistance of this group I made the change. I really feel stronger, more healthy, and extra targeted — to not point out the financial savings (aye, they’ve not gone unnoticed both For those who’re pondering of quitting, I swear you are able to do it. Simply don’t attempt to do it alone — get a give up buddy, somebody to lean on when it will get robust.

Right here’s to scrub lungs, clear heads, and by no means smelling like an ashtray once more.

Roll on 2 years smoke free!”

Inspiring Success – Give up Vaping

This week, CBQ Give up Smoking Program member Robin Sheffield from Texas, US, celebrated 3 years vape-free! Robin began smoking when she was 13 years outdated. Since then, she smoked for 41 years and obtained as much as 2 1/2 to three packs a day. In an try to give up, Robin turned to vaping, and obtained addicted for 7 years.

That is what Robin shared about her inspiring story:

“My give up date was July seventeenth 2022. I threw all the pieces away earlier than I went to mattress on the sixteenth. I began smoking after I was 13 years outdated and obtained as much as 2 1/2 to three packs a day. After spending 1000’s on all types of how to give up (acupuncture, patches, hypnosis, and many others) I learn this guide that made me give up in 2015 (40 years later). Effectively, that lasted 3 days and I used to be able to go purchase some cigarettes. I remembered that I had a pen model vape and charged it up. I began vaping and by no means smoked one other cig once more. My physician advised me a few years in the past that I’ll have the primary levels of emphysema and I’ve been on inhalers since. I obtained covid pneumonia 1 1/2 years in the past and the very first thing they advised me is that my lungs had been fried. I used to be in ICU and virtually died, however after getting out of the hospital (16 days later with no vaping) I attempted to go with out vaping however couldn’t. My mind was consumed with the considered vaping and wouldn’t cease. So, 7 years of vaping, I actually, actually, wished to give up and went through your program for a third time (I felt that the primary 2 instances weren’t serving to me in any respect (I don’t assume I used to be doing all the pieces accurately)).”

Robin mentioned: “So for 47 years, I used to be both a smoker or vaper, and now, I’m neither. It’s positively a thoughts factor, and the thoughts is a robust factor. I AM TRULY FREE!”

To your freedom,

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

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