Celebrating YOU: This week’s spotlights [June 25, 2025]

Comfortable “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

This week, CBQ Program member Pleasure Aelbers from British Columbia, Canada, celebrated 3 years smoke-free! Pleasure had been a smoker her complete life and spent 30 years actively making an attempt to give up.

She found the CBQ Stop Smoking Program at 59. Regardless of her doubts and fears of failure, she took a leap of religion.

The end result? She give up smoking and her life reworked. Now 3 years later, at 62, Pleasure feels more healthy than ever. She’s taken up bike driving and even accomplished a 10K stroll/run—issues she by no means imagined doing earlier than.

Right here’s what Pleasure shared with me simply a few days in the past:

That is Pleasure together with her CBQ Success Certificates:

Inspiring Success

This week, Joe Wilson from England, UK, celebrated 4 years smoke-free! After smoking closely for 25 years, Joe give up smoking on June 20, 2021, on Father’s Day.

He additionally wrote a goodbye letter throughout the CBQ Course, within the type of a tremendous poem and listed all of the the reason why he didn’t need tobacco in his life anymore.

Right here it’s:

Two fingers to the Poisonous Trickster

Goodbye, good riddance

You’ve all the time been my go-to

Once I have to take outing

To change off, to calm down with

To run away to and discover my doubts

Farewell, Adieu

You’ve all the time been a toxic reward

A void in my routine

A sewer of escape to nowhere

However spiralling round in a cycle of despair

Ta-ra duck, I’m carried out

Cos you’re simply not proper

For me, in any respect, any extra

I can’t preserve going

forwards and backwards with you

Szia, we’re over

I hate how I’ve needed to plan

My day, my life round you

It’s distasteful the way you’ve made

My mouth style so monstrous

My gums gone contaminated

My tooth rotting of their sockets

I’ve been such a Muppet

However now I see the maintain that you just’ve held over me

The trick on my thoughts that I want you to exist

However I don’t, I by no means did

Two fingers to the poisonous trickster

I’ve outgrown this poisonous relationship, right here it ends

I select to be current, for my household and my pals

Clear lungs, stuffed with vitality, free to be me

No worry, no worries, an unimaginable future I can see

All you’ve ever introduced me is bother

I hate the remorse

I’ve determined it’s time for me to maneuver on

And be smoke-free once more

As I used to be after I was born

I deserve for me to be free

A cheerful non-smoker

Now I’m placing myself first

I’ve dismantled you as a limiting perception

Your phantasm’s completely burst

You haven’t any energy, over me, any extra

So don’t name

Two fingers, to you, Poisonous trickster

And that’s all

Sincerely, your ex

The genuine Joe says so

Thanks for sharing this, Joe!

Now Joe resides his greatest life!

That is what he shared with me about his present life as a non-smoker:

“Because of you and your programme I’m nonetheless smoke-free, xx

A cheerful dad, associate, musician, director of SoMi Academy & MADULA and serving to many individuals to precise themselves by means of music.

Thanks for dedicating your life in the best way you may have”

Tip of the Week

This week’s tip comes from CBQ Program member Marilou Russo who celebrated 4 years smoke-free this week!

Marilou’s tip: Smoking by no means modifications a factor.

“That is the longest I’ve ever give up, I owe it to CBQ. Are you aware what I discovered right here? I discovered having that cigarette doesn’t change a canine gone factor, it solely made me really feel worse than I already did. On this journey, bear in mind you might be in management, you management your feelings, what ever you feel that drives you to that cigarette, bear in mind this 1 factor, “smoking isn’t going to alter it”. Have your cry, have your second of disappointment, have your second of tension, simply have your second with out a cigarette. The primary time you get by means of that second, like that, you may be so pleased with your self, the euphoria it brings its life-changing. good luck, you are able to do it. We’re all right here to help you”

To your freedom,

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

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