Nasia Davos

Smoking cessation programs can make quitting not only easy but also permanent.

And if you’re here, then you’re probably looking for a program like that.

Perhaps you’re here because you’ve tried to quit before but it didn’t last so you want your next quit attempt to be successful. 

Maybe you’re worried about how smoking might be harming your health so you’re looking for a solution.

Or maybe you’re an employer who cares about the health and wellbeing of your employees and you’re looking for the best way to help them.

If that’s you, then you’re right to look for a quit smoking program. Research shows that the best way to quit smoking is with the right assistance.

What is a smoking cessation program? It’s a program online or offline that is designed to help you stop smoking, vaping, or other forms of nicotine.

However, not all smoking cessation programs are created equal.

That’s why I will share with you exactly what to look for in a program so you can make an informed decision about your quit.

At this point, you might be wondering who I am and what do I know about quit smoking programs.

My name is Nasia Davos. I’m a Psychologist, Author, Certified Life Coach, Licensed Master Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner, and certified Smoking Cessation Practitioner.

Above all, I used to be a smoker too.

It was only after a personal tragedy, around 10 years ago, that I first tried to quit smoking.

And I tried every method that was available at the time. But nothing worked. I failed again and again.

That’s how I ended up creating the CBQ Method.

CBQ stands for Cognitive Behavioral Quitting because it helps you stop the thinking and behavioral patterns that keep you addicted to nicotine.

The CBQ Method is a natural psychology-based method that has 4 quit smoking stages.

Going through the 4 stages of the CBQ helps you stop wanting to smoke. How? These 4 stages change how your mind thinks about and experiences smoking.

Up to this day, the CBQ Method has helped me and hundreds of thousands of others quit easily and it has been featured in:

– TED talks
– The Huffington Post
– Harvard Blog
– Healthable
– NBC News
– and was selected as the best overall method to stop smoking by VeryWell Mind.

When I first created the CBQ Method, I used it to help people stop smoking with private sessions. And before long, I realized that it was practically impossible to be there for my clients the moment they needed me. So I started creating and giving them small videos to use in difficult moments.

When they told me how helpful this was, I started putting together a video-based online stop smoking program, which turned into the CBQ program that has won the Wellbeing Programme Specialist of the year award and has a 94% success rate. 85% of our members quit the first time they go through the program and 8% succeed the second or third time they go through the program.

Here’s why I’m telling you all this:

To reach this high success rate and help so many people, my team and I spent years testing, researching, and refining this method and program.

So after all this time, we know what works and what doesn’t.

So let me show you how to choose a program that will help you stop smoking for good.

But before we get into that, you need to know what are your options.

Types of Smoking Cessation Programs

1. Group Programs

A group program can be an online forum, website, or Facebook group where people exchange ideas and advice.

Or it can be face-to-face gatherings like Nicotine Anonymous, meetings in clinics guided by an expert, or lavish inpatient programs where you live with other people who want to quit smoking.

2. Individual Programs

In individual programs, you can have online weekly sessions with a therapist or counselor or follow a computer-based smoking cessation program from the comfort of your home.

Alternatively, you can go for “offline” meetings with a counselor or therapist.

3. Combination Programs for Smoking Cessation

Some programs allow you to go through them by yourself (Individual program) but you also have the additional option to reach out to a community or support group if you want to (Group program).

This helps if you want to have your own journey and pace but also feel that you’re not alone.

For example, the CBQ Program is an individual online program (that you can watch from your computer or any device) but we also have an amazing private community where our members can ask questions or connect with other members.

Participating in the community is not required to succeed with the program, but it’s an addition that our members love!

As you can see, there are various options. But no matter what you choose make sure it meets these 7 requirements.

7 Things to Look for in Smoking Cessation Programs that Really Work

Programs that work…

1. Follow a Quit Smoking Method

Not all stop smoking programs follow a specific method. Some offer only support. Others offer only information.

Don’t get me wrong. Having support is important (I will explain why in a bit). Having the right information is necessary. But those aspects alone, are not enough to help you become smoke-free.

What you need, is to follow a process, a roadmap, a method.

A good method has a built-in plan.

Trying to quit smoking without following a logical plan, is like shooting in the dark.

Think about it.

Without a plan, you don’t know how to prepare for your new healthy life.

And you don’t know what to do instead of smoking when you feel stressed, bored, angry or when you’ve had a little too much to drink.

So you constantly doubt yourself.

And this uncertainty adds stress to your quit.

Don’t you think?

But when you follow a plan, you know exactly what to do every step of the way and how to cope with challenges.

And this clarity gives you the confidence you need to stop smoking.

A proper method is also a process.

In other words, a method can’t be a collection of information about quitting smoking. That’s not good enough.

A method needs to have steps and stages where each step builds upon the other.

That way you’re following a logical and reliable path that takes you from a smoker to a happy non-smoker.

On top of that, when you break down a huge goal like quitting smoking into approachable steps, then you take it day by day; step by step.

So quitting cigarettes becomes less overwhelming and stressful and therefore, easier.

The CBQ Method has 4 quit smoking stages, where each stage builds upon the previous one.

They are:

1. Choose to Quit

2. Change Your Mindset

3. Change Your Smoking Pattern

4. Condition Your Smoke-Free Life

The 4 stages of the CBQ Method break down the vague and sometimes intimidating goal of quitting smoking, into approachable steps. Also, the 4 stages are a strategy and a plan that helps you prepare and remove the mental addiction BEFORE you quit.

You can watch my TED talk on why these 4 stages work here.

To learn more about the 4 stages of the CBQ Method and start applying them, click here to get the foundational video of the CBQ Method (and a PDF starter guide). It’s free.

2. The Best Stop Smoking Programs Combine Theory with Practice

This is such an important point. As I teach on our webinars, insight, and knowledge are not enough to change an addiction (or anything for that matter). They need to be paired with the right practice and exercises. 

Think about it.

You can’t become more mindful just by reading about mindfulness; you have to experience it too.

Or you can’t become a tennis player just by reading about different playing techniques; you have to practice.

And you can’t learn how to swim just by reading a book about it. You have to dip your toe in the water.

In the same way, a great program combines theory with practice so you can change how you think about smoking and test your knowledge.

You need both theory and practice to change years of conditioning and prepare for your smoke-free life.

3. Successful Programs Teach You New Skills

Many quit smoking resources tell you why smoking is bad for you. But they don’t show you the most important thing: what to do instead of smoking.

Even worse, some smoking cessation programs give you unnatural alternatives and stop smoking aids like nicotine gums, patches, and vaping, which can sabotage your success.

I’ll explain why.

1. These products are supposed to help with the nicotine withdrawal. But they don’t. Instead, they prolong it.

When you stop supplying your body with nicotine, the cravings eventually end. When you keep taking nicotine, the cravings continue for as long as you remain addicted.

2. Using nicotine substitutes is like telling yourself that you need nicotine to function and feel relaxed and happy.

This belief is damaging as it reinforces the mental addiction and makes it harder to let go of smoking.

3. By using nicotine products and remaining physically addicted to nicotine you’re always one step closer to picking up a cigarette when you face extreme stress or a life crisis.

You don’t need substitutes.

However, you need to learn new coping skills and things to do instead of smoking that will keep your hands busy and help you feel good without cigarettes.

One of the coping skills I teach in the CBQ Program is deep breathing because it reduces cravings and stress. This is great for you especially if you use smoking and vaping to cope with stress.

I explain why deep breathing works in this video about nicotine and anxiety.

The key here is to choose something that keeps your mind and hands busy and away from cigarettes.

4. Successful Smoking Cessation Programs Have Reviews from Real People

This should be fairly obvious but I can’t go without mentioning it.

The best way to assess if something is right for you is to hear from actual people who experienced it before you.

People whose name and face you can see. People who express their journey in their own words and sometimes even share their challenges, successes, insights, and advice.

You can watch Mike’s story here:

Seeking valid reviews is not only useful for online quit smoking programs but for every online service.

Seeing what other people say can help you decide if a program is legit and right for you.

Plus, it paints a picture of how the real journey is like. That way, you know what to expect and you’re not going into the unknown.

On our success page (which you can spend hours reading), we’re proud to have countless reviews from our members who share their stories in their own words!

Our members not only have conquered different forms of nicotine addiction (light, moderate and heavy smokers, vapers, and users of nicotine gums and nicotine lozenges) but they also come from all walks of life, different parts of the world, and have different personal challenges and backgrounds!

5. Effective Programs Must Be Accessible 24/7

Another thing to look for in a smoking cessation program is 24/7 access.

Let me give you an example.

Imagine you’re smoke-free for 2 weeks. But then something happens that stresses you out – an argument with your spouse, bad news, or work stress!

(I bet you can guess what happens next.)

As soon as you feel anxious, you experience a mental craving. The craving mind reminds you of all the times you felt that way in the past and reached for a cigarette.

At that moment, you need to have instant access to some helpful resources.

Let’s face it. If you’re seeing a counselor, you will likely have to wait a week to get help.

If you’re part of an online support group, you will have to wait for someone to see your question and say something helpful.

But if you have an online computer-based (or phone or tablet-based) tobacco cessation program, you can instantly log in, watch a helpful video, and crush that craving.

6. Good Stop Smoking Programs Shouldn’t Be Too Short or Too long

When choosing the right smoking cessation program you have to factor in its length.

A program that’s a couple of hours long may be a good educational video but it won’t create long-lasting change.

Most times, going through a really short individual or group program (3 hours or less) means one or more of the following:

• The information you got is superficial and incomplete.
• You accumulated information without really knowing what to do with it or how to apply it when push comes to shove.
• The program does not include practice (See point #2)

What about long stop smoking programs? (4 weeks or longer)

Lengthy programs may be better equipped to help smokers succeed. However, the longer a program is the harder it becomes for someone to commit to it all the way to the end.

Not necessarily because the program is not engaging enough, but because it’s hard for people to keep their excitement and focus on quitting smoking consistently for 5 weeks in a row.

Naturally, life will get in the way and the longer the process the harder it will be to fend off distractions.

That’s why the ideal length of a program is something in between.

It should be long enough to contain everything you need but not too stretched out where commitment starts to dip.

7. The Best Smoking Cessation Programs Offers Support

Research shows that feeling supported increases your chances of success.

Being able to reach out to friends and loved ones while quitting smoking can be a huge help.

However, not everyone has that kind of support system.

And most times, the people close to us may not be able to understand what it’s like to quit smoking. (Unless they’ve quit smoking themselves)

Or they may not know how to direct us or offer the right advice.

That’s why a good program should offer support.

This can take many forms:

• Email support
• Phone support
• Group support

What matters is to be able to reach out to people who are knowledgeable on the quit smoking process, people who have already quit smoking, and peers who are quitting smoking at the same time as you.

As I mentioned earlier, our members of the CBQ Program also join our private members-only Facebook Group where they get support and advice from me, my team, and from other amazing members who are also quitting smoking or have already quit.

Because having a community helping you, cheering you on, and supporting you along the way, gives you incredible strength and motivation to follow through on your goal. 

Our members also have access to our team of coaches who are former smokers and trained on the CBQ Method so they have empathy, understanding and can offer the right guidance.

About The CBQ Smoking Cessation Program

The CBQ Program is an online stop smoking program that follows the CBQ Method step by step and helps you quit smoking in 10 days.

And we’re proud that the CBQ Program meets all 7 requirements we discussed; Specifically, it:

• Follows a quit smoking method: The CBQ Method.
• Combines theory with practice. The CBQ Program helps you change how you think about smoking and has exercises to help you test and reinforce your learnings.
• Teaches you new skills so you can be more mindful, connect with yourself, relax and cope in healthy ways.
• Has reviews from real people that you can read on our Success Page or on our open CBQ Method Community (this group is free and for everyone who wants to apply the CBQ Method either by themselves or with our program)
• Is always accessible since it’s an online quit smoking program.
• It’s neither too short nor too long. The program lasts 12 days. You smoke during the program and you quit on day 10. However, it’s flexible and self-paced so you can go through it in 20 days if you want to.
• Offers email support and group support.

You can learn more about the CBQ Program and its cost here.

You can watch the Ask An Ex interviews with past members of the CBQ Program on our Youtube channel.

This is Val’s story:

The CBQ Program for Employers

The CBQ Program qualifies as a reasonable alternative as defined by HIPAA/ADA.

If you’re an employer who wishes to offer the CBQ Program to your organization, please reach out to us at [email protected]

 

Are you looking for the easiest and most effective way to quit smoking naturally without any side effects?

Have you tried to quit smoking before but failed or relapsed after a while because you couldn’t resist your cravings? 

Do you want to feel healthy and strong again so you can live a long happy life with your family and loved ones?

If you answered YES to these questions, then you are in the right place.

Because this article will show you the easiest way to quit smoking.

My name is Nasia Davos. I’m a Psychologist, Author and certified Life Coach and Smoking Cessation coach. And for the last 8 years I’ve developed a proven quit smoking method that has been featured on:

– TED talks
– The Huffington Post
– Harvard Blog
– Healthable
– Reuters
– NBC news
– and many more

This is the same method that I used to help myself and thousands of smokers quit easily and permanently without feeling anxious or deprived.

You see, every year only 6% of the smokers who try to quit eventually succeed.

This number is just too low. It means that 94% of people are failing to quit this addiction…

But why?

The most common answer I get is “I can’t quit because I enjoy smoking.”

Or “I need it.”

I used to believe that too when I was a smoker, and you might also feel the same way.

See, the reason you enjoy, desire, need and even love smoking is that you believe it gives you some benefits.

You probably believe cigarettes help you socialize, cope with stress and boredom, take a break, escape unpleasant situations, keep your hands busy, concentrate, enjoy your personal time or manage your weight.

Right?

So you’re afraid that if you quit, you’ll be sacrificing all those benefits along with your ability to enjoy life and cope with your problems. 

And even if that fear is far from true, it still worries you.

If you are like I was, quitting makes you feel like you’re giving up an old friend, a crutch… someone you can rely on.

So you feel deprived, you fail to stop smoking and you end up blaming yourself.

But let me tell you this: it’s not your fault.

You’re just trying to quit the hard way.

Here’s what the hard way looks like:

You FIRST stop smoking using the common quit smoking methods – willpower, nicotine gums, and patches, vaping, smoking pills- and THEN you wait for the magical moment where you will just stop wanting a smoke.

But this moment never comes.

Trying to quit and then waiting and hoping for your desire to smoke to disappear by itself is the hardest way you can stop smoking.

Period.

But what if you did the opposite?

What if you FIRST removed your desire for smoking and you THEN actually stopped smoking.

Wouldn’t that make quitting easy and effortless?

The Easiest Way to Quit Smoking Naturally

If you want to stop smoking naturally and successfully, you have to first stop wanting to smoke and then quit.So how can you remove your desire for smoking?

With the CBQ method.

The Cognitive Behavioral Quitting (CBQ) method is a unique sequence of simple scientific techniques that removes your need to smoke.

How? By showing you what to do with your mind and what to do with your hands so you can quit successfully.

What Makes the CBQ the Easiest Way to Quit Smoking Naturally

• It reverses the process of addiction

The CBQ is a natural method that requires no willpower. It simply removes your need to smoke because it follows the exact 4 stages that our brain gets attached or detached from a habit or addiction.

• You keep the benefits you used to get from smoking

The CBQ shows you new, effective and healthy ways to feel relaxed, concentrate, enjoy life, keep your hands busy, socialize, take a break cope with boredom BETTER without cigarettes. No other method does that.

• You don’t experience the side effects of quitting

When you no longer crave cigarettes, you don’t feel deprived and stressed without them. And you don’t experience withdrawal symptoms like headaches, irritation or loss of concentration because there are no cravings to cause these symptoms in the first place.

• You don’t gain weight

The CBQ cures the core reason why you smoke so you can enjoy your smoke-free without substituting smoking with food or any other crutch.

• You quit permanently

The CBQ is the only method that shows you how to remain smoke-free even if you live or spend time with other smokers.

The CBQ works for those who smoke more than 5 cigarettes and up to 3 packs a day and feel they need it.

And it’s a world-recognized method because of its 94% success rate.

85% of smokers quit permanently on their first attempt and 9% quit on their second or third attempt. And it will work for you too.

How it works?

The CBQ method has 4 stages that take you from a smoker who loves cigarettes to a non-smoker who feels better without cigarettes.

Yes, it takes only 4 steps to quit easily.

Following these 4 stages, in the right sequence, makes you first stop wanting to smoke and THEN shows you how to break the habit of smoking.

These are the exact 4 stages that have helped thousands of smokers quit this habit and live a longer, happier and healthier life.

So now that you know why the CBQ is the easiest way to quit smoking naturally, you might be wondering what are the 4 stages of quitting smoking and how you can apply them to your own life so you can also break free from this addiction.

How to Quit Smoking Naturally, Starting Today

I have created a foundational video where I walk you through the 4 stages of the CBQ method.

In this free video, you will discover:

• What are the 4 stages of quitting smoking and how they help you quit easily.
• What you have to do to get started with each stage.
• How to stop smoking naturally without willpower so you can be healthier and happier without cigarettes.

This video is 100% free. Just enter your name and email address here so I can send you your video.

Send Me My Free Video

Talk soon,
– Nasia Davos

P.S. This introductory video will walk you through the 4 stages of the CBQ method. You will learn what each stage does and how it will help you become a nonsmoker.

These are the exact 4 stages that have helped thousands of smokers quit easily and permanently.

The Connection Between COPD and Smoking

Who could ever really believe that a small stick of tobacco can cause so many problems?

Among the most life-draining of these problems, is the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

Maybe you’re here because a loved one has COPD, so you want to help them out.

Or maybe you’re struggling with COPD yourself, and you want to quit smoking but without missing cigarettes.

The American Lung Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) link 85 to 90 percent of COPD cases and 8 out of 10 COPD-related deaths to smoking.

Smoking is the leading cause of COPD.

That’s why it’s also the best treatment for COPD.

Every single research and health institute, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the Mayo Clinic and UK’s National Health System has established that the best treatment for COPD is no other than quitting smoking.

Quitting Smoking and COPD

If you’ve been diagnosed with COPD because of smoking, you naturally feel some sort of anger, disappointment, discouragement or even depression.

It is a tough situation.

No doubt about that.

And… Since the damage to your lungs has already been done, you might think that quitting smoking is not worth the struggle.

Perhaps you think that smoking is the only way you can cope with all the anxiety and the changes happening in your life right now.

You might even think that it’s too late to quit now. There are many reasons why smokers with COPD keep on smoking.

But is it too late to stop smoking?

Kathrin Nicolacakis, MD, a pulmonary specialist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio says that quitting smoking is the best COPD treatment that’s guaranteed to help you maintain the lung function you have left.

Think of COPD as a cracked mirror.

If you stop hitting the mirror, it will stay cracked. If you keep hitting it, it will break completely.

No matter what other COPD treatment you use – oxygen therapy, surgery, medication – if you keep cracking the mirror by smoking, it will eventually break.

That’s why the natural cure for COPD is to stop smoking and stop cracking the mirror. 

Listen. No matter how long you have had COPD or how advanced it is, quitting smoking will slow down its progression and improve your quality of life.

In the beginning, you might feel no difference with your COPD because your lungs need some time to clear all the toxins.

After that, things only get better.

According to the American Lung Association (ALA), you experience marvelous stopping smoking benefits after your last cigarette.

Within 1 to 9 months your cough, sinus congestion, fatigue, shortness of breath and COPD flare-ups decline so much that you are able to live normally.

Ok so now you know how that quitting smoking is the best thing you can do for your COPD.

So the question is, HOW can you stop smoking?

And more importantly, how can you quit smoking naturally and easily so you can remain smoke-free forever?

How to Quit Smoking when you have COPD

If you’ve ever felt that quitting is hard, painful and even impossible… know that it doesn’t have to be that way. Not anymore.

There is a new way to stop smoking easily and permanently.

This way is the CBQ method.

The Cognitive Behavioural Quitting method – CBQ- has 94% success rate. 85% of smokers quit permanently on their first attempt and 9% quit on their second or third attempt. And you can quit too.

The CBQ is so successful because it follows the 4 quit smoking stages.

These stages are:

1. Choose to Quit.

In this stage, you commit to quitting smoking and create your quit plan.

2. Cultivate Your Potential and Crush the Fear of Quitting.

Here you break the fears that keep you stuck to your habit, you strengthen your belief that you can stop smoking and remove all the obstacles that prevent you from becoming a happy non-smoker.

3. Change Your Smoking Pattern.

In this stage, you learn how to feel better without cigarettes and how to stop cigarette cavings so you can smoke your last cigarette.

4. Condition your Smoke Free Life.

In the last stage, you learn how to remain a non-smoker and how to feel relaxed, happy, and in peace without a cigarette in your hand.

So in this article, I will show you 3 exercises that belong to the 3rd quit smoking stage: Change Your Smoking Pattern.

Don’t worry if you haven’t started with the first stage yet. You can always access the exclusive video of the 4 stages here.

Just enter your name and email address so I will know where to send you the video.

For now, know that these quit smoking solutions that I’m about to share with you are a great way to test drive the CBQ method.

And they will help you stop smoking.

Ready??

1. Win Your Morning Cigarette

Why is taking control of the morning cigarette so important?

Because most smokers believe that the morning cigarette is the one they will miss the most when they quit.

Just the thought of waking up and not smoking is enough to bring our confidence down and prevent even the most determined among us from making a successful quit attempt.

Yes.

The fear of feeling deprived in the morning can keep us hooked to nicotine for life.

If you are like I was, you probably think that you can’t wake up properly without a cigarette.

Maybe you believe that your whole day will be stressful and overwhelming if you don’t get these first morning puffs.

Or maybe you’re worried that if you don’t smoke in the morning, you won’t be able to enjoy the rest of your day.

Well, if any of these are true for you know that you are not alone.

Most smokers feel they need a cigarette to enjoy their morning.

But is this cigarette really enjoyable?

And do we really NEED it?

The first cigarette of the day tastes awful- unless we smoke it while drinking our coffee or tea or after having breakfast.

For me having a cigarette immediately after brushing my teeth in the morning, was the most disgusting thing. It gave me cotton mouth and the taste was horrible. I still get the chills just thinking about it.

Still, what do you think happened when I didn’t have time to grab a coffee with my morning cigarette?

I still smoked it right after brushing my teeth!

Enjoyment had nothing to do with it. But I thought I needed it. Otherwise, my cravings would be too painful and intense.

But things changed when I started asking myself this question:

Why during the day, I can’t possibly go without cigarettes, but at night I can sleep 6,7 or 8 hours without smoking?

If the nicotine cravings were so painful then they would wake me up!

But we don’t wake up at night from the intensity of our cravings. Do we?

Why?

Because the physical cravings for nicotine can be so subtle that we don’t even notice them.

That’s why we don’t wake up every hour for a cigarette break.

Yet, if we go 8 hours in the day without smoking…. then the cravings become annoying and overwhelming.

Why is it that at night our cravings don’t bother us but when we are awake we feel we NEED a cigarette?

What’s different about sleeping and being awake?

What really changes?

What changes, is that our mind is awake.

And it is our mind that reminds us we haven’t smoked for so many hours.

It tells us that we need to smoke. Otherwise, we will be agitated and stressed all day.

It is our mind that misses the cigarette, not our body.

This happens because the smoking addiction is 80% mental and 20% physical.

The physical addiction to smoking is our body’s need for nicotine.

The mental dependence on smoking is how smoking makes us feel and how much we think we need it.

This is actually good news.

Because it means that we can easily avoid our morning cigarette, as long as we keep ourselves happy and busy in the morning.

When we see that there are other ways to feel good without smoking, then we don’t need to use willpower to resist a cigarette, because there is nothing to resist.

So how can you win over your morning cigarette and kick-start your day?

How to Start Your Day without Smoking

Here are some tips:

•  Begin each day with a planned activity that will keep you busy. This can be talking a walk, showering, making a phone call.
• Write something down — Did you have any good ideas or dreams while you were asleep? Write them down right after you wake up or while drinking your coffee.
• Think of something you’re grateful for or excited about.
• Play a game on your phone to keep your hands busy.
• Begin each day with deep breathing.
• When your mind tells you “You need to smoke”, reply back. Take your most confident, empowering face and say “I don’t need to do anything” or say “later” or “shut up” (I used to say that to myself- To my surprise, it worked).

2. Keep Your Motivation High

All smokers have reasons to quit. These reasons are our motivation.

We want to be healthier and live longer to enjoy our time with our loved ones.

We also want to stop paying our hard earned money to the tobacco companies. Click here to check how much money you will save by quitting smoking.

And, of course, we want to breathe better so we can beat the painful COPD symptoms.

So yes, we all have some quit smoking motivation.

Then why don’t we do it?

What is stopping us?

Why does our motivation evaporate?

You might think that what destroys your motivation to quit comes down to self-destruction or weakness. That’s far from the truth.

What destroys our motivation to quit is…. our motivation to smoke.

On the one hand, we want to get back our health, wealth, and peace of mind.

On the other hand, we are motivated to keep on smoking because we are afraid of losing the cigarette friend that helps us relax, socialize and control our weight.

We simply have a conflict of motivations.

And quitting smoking is all about making our motivation to quit become greater than our motivation to smoke.

It’s about having more reasons to quit than to keep on smoking.

So now let’s do an exercise together to help you keep your motivation to quit high. If you can, do this exercise as you are reading this post (no better time than the present, right?)

It will only take a few minutes, I promise.

Okay, take a piece of paper or open a notes app on your phone or tablet.

We will make 2 lists.

On list #1 write ALL the quit smoking benefits. Or else, the reasons why you want to stop smoking.

On list #2 write ALL the smoking benefits. In other words, the reasons why you want to keep on smoking.

These 2 lists may look something like this:

I encourage you to spend 5 minutes writing everything that comes to your mind…

And when you finish, check your lists.

Which list is bigger?

Do you have more reasons to quit or more reasons to smoke?

And which reasons are more important? The ones on the first list or the second?

I think you already know.

So every time you feel like giving up on your decision to quit, look at these lists.

This will keep your motivation high.

Moving on.

I bet that somewhere on your Reasons to Smoke list, you wrote about stress. Right?

This brings me to our next point.

3. How to Bring Your Stress Down

COPD and Smoking can increase your anxiety.

See, all smokers face daily stress. But having COPD is a stressful situation all by itself.

Just knowing that your lungs are harmed, is distressing. It creates guilt. And guilt is a big burden to carry.

And having to cope with symptoms like chest tightness, wheezing, constant coughing, tiredness, headaches and swollen feet, is not only stressful but also painful.

Now being hooked on oxygen tanks goes beyond stressful.

And then there is the loving pressure to quit that comes from your loved ones.

This can be a lot to handle, right?

The more problems you’re facing, the more you feel you need smoking. The very thing that caused all of these problems.

It doesn’t make sense but for some reason, it appears to help.

But does it really help?

As if the existing stress in your life wasn’t enough, you now have the stress coming from your nicotine cravings.

Cravings are very agitating.

They make us tense.

Anxious.

When we crave, we can’t think of anything else other than smoking.

So we smoke.

When we smoke, we relieve the irritating craving.

But every cigarette we smoke also causes our next cigarette craving. And when the next craving comes, what happens?

We feel stress if we don’t smoke to satisfy that craving too.

So we smoke again. And the same vicious circle repeats itself 20, 30, 50 times a day until the end of our lives.

Smoking is not relaxing us.

On the contrary, it’s causing us stress all day, every day.

It’s true. Smokers are more stressed than non-smokers.

Yep, that’s right.

Although smoking a cigarette might feel like an effective mood control, being addicted to nicotine increases your anxiety.

So our goal is to remain smoke-free and stress-free.

Remember what we talked about earlier in this post.

A successful and easy quit attempt happens when we know how to cope with our biggest cravings BEFORE we have to face them.

The key here is to start managing your stress without cigarettes BEFORE you smoke your last cigarette.

That way, you will know exactly what to do when a craving strikes.

Your anxiety will go down.

You won’t feel overwhelmed.

You will be prepared. And it will work.

If you think that this is hard, let me reassure you that it is not.

The only reason you feel you need smoking to relax is this: You never had the chance to learn how to relax without a cigarette.

That doesn’t mean that you can’t relax without smoking.

You can. I promise you.

All you have to do is to experiment with new ways to relax without smoking.

Here are a few tips to get you started:

How to Relax without Smoking

1. Focus on today.

Really, when you feel overwhelmed tell yourself “Focus on today”. Forget about yesterday or tomorrow. Take it one day at a time. Solve one problem at a time.

Focus on getting through today. Then focus on getting through tomorrow when it comes.

2. Write it down.

Recharge your mind by writing down your thoughts.

Don’t let all these worries run around in your head. That way, they get bigger and they blow out of proportion.

Instead, take a pen and a paper and start writing down what’s stressing you out.

Then ask yourself: Will smoking solve this problem?

3. Get perspective.

What helped me (and still helps me) calm down when I was stressed and anxious was getting some perspective on my problems. I was asking myself these questions:

• Is anyone else on this planet going through a harder time right now?
• And what would my best friend (spouse, mother, grandmother, son, daughter) say to me about this problem?

Conclusion

Now you can how to deal with COPD and smoking.

The fastest way to get started is to use the 3 tools from the quit smoking stage- Change Your Smoking Pattern:
– How to smash your morning cigarette
– How to keep your motivation to quit high
– And how to tackle stressful situations without cigarettes.

To quit smoking permanently and easily, makes sure you follow the 4 stages of the CBQ method.

These 4 stages take you from where you are now to a happy non-smoker.

And they are designed to help you quit even if you love smoking.

Click here to request access to the exclusive video of the 4 stages.

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See you on the inside!

Are you exploring different ways to quit smoking, because you want a method that will really work for you?

Have you tried to quit in the past but failed or relapsed after a while?

And do you want to stop smoking, but worry it’s too hard and stressful?

Well, since you are here, I believe that at least a part of you really wants to stop this habit.

That much I know.

Maybe you’re here because you want to break free from this addiction and live a long, happy life with your loved ones. 

Perhaps, you are struggling with your breathing and worrying about how smoking might be affecting you.

Possibly, your energy does not sustain you throughout the day anymore.

Maybe you are just sick of the smell. And of having to draw money out of your pocket every day to pay the tobacco companies.

Or maybe, although you have everything in your life under control, cigarettes are the one thing controlling you.

And you hate that.

Right?

I bet you have a dozen reasons to quit. Especially, when knowing what happens when you quit smoking. 

That’s why nearly 7 out of every 10 smokers want to quit for good.

But to be fair, everyone is looking for ways to quit smoking that are easy, permanent and stress-free.

After all, that’s the best way to quit smoking: a way that helps you quit easily and permanently, without any stress, weight gain or feelings of deprivation.

Don’t you agree?

Unfortunately, most people don’t believe there are such easy ways to quit smoking.

They believe they’ve run out of options. Or they believe quitting cigarettes is meant to be hard, so they postpone it indefinitely.

Or even worse, some smokers use outdated ways to quit smoking that make quitting hard.

So they fail, then they blame themselves for it, and they end up believing they have an addictive personality or not enough willpower.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. Not anymore.

Nowadays, science has progressed. We understand how our brain and body get addicted to smoking. So we know exactly how to remove this addiction for good.

And after nearly a decade (can’t believe it’s been that long!) of research, my team and I have developed a cutting-edge quit smoking method that tackles this addiction for good: the CBQ method.

The Cognitive Behavioral Quitting method – CBQ – has 94% success rate. 85% of smokers quit permanently on their first attempt, and 9% quit on their second or third attempt.

What makes the CBQ method so successful?

The key here is that you first stop wanting to smoke, and THEN you break the habit of smoking.

Now instead of telling you why the CBQ method is the most effective way to quit smoking naturally, I’d rather show you.

Because no matter what I say, you are the one who will choose how to stop smoking.

So how can I show you?

By comparing all the common ways to quit smoking- nicotine replacement therapy, vaping, pills, cold turkey, with the CBQ method.

Just to be clear. Many smokers manage to quit with stop smoking aids.

• But do they find it easy?
• Do they stay smoke-free?
• Are they stressed and anxious?
• And are they gaining weight?

Let’s see.

The 5 Ways to Quit Smoking: Comparison

1. Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)

In Nicotine Replacement Therapy you quit smoking by using products – patches, gums, lozenges – that contain nicotine.

Easy

At first sight, it seems that these products make quitting easier by minimizing your nicotine cravings.

But does staying addicted to nicotine make quitting easier?

And do you actually reduce your nicotine cravings?

Nicotine products do not alleviate the nicotine withdrawal. Instead, they prolong it. When you stop supplying your body with nicotine, the cravings eventually end. When you keep taking nicotine, the cravings continue for as long as you remain addicted.

Unless you plan on taking these products forever, you will eventually have to stop using them and go through the inevitable physical withdrawal.

Permanent

Would you advise a heroin addict to stop using heroin by chewing it instead of injecting it?

Of course, not!

But why?

Because how can you overcome the addiction to a drug by taking the same drug you are addicted to?

It’s impossible.

As a matter of fact, it’s easier to relapse if you are already addicted to nicotine. As long as you have nicotine inside your body, you are always one step closer to smoking a cigarette.

This is backed up by the director of the Centre for Global Tobacco Control at Harvard School of Public Health whose research proved that nicotine gums and patches can keep you off of cigarettes only for a few months.

Stress

All of us have used cigarettes to smoke our stress away.

If nicotine had such a relaxing effect, then smokers would be the most relaxed and careless people in the world. And you and I both know that that’s just not true.

What’s true, is that nicotine is the very thing making us anxious. Every time our body is low on nicotine, we experience stress and even panic. This kind of stress is also called “craving.”

When we smoke, we feel relaxed, yes.

However, we don’t relax because the cigarette calmed us down. We feel better because we supplied our body with nicotine and ended the exasperating craving.

Plus, what calms us down when smoking is the familiar, repetitive movement we do with our hands.

In times of uncertainty, it’s the ritual, the habit of smoking that gives us a sense of stability and makes us feel okay. Not the nicotine.

In that sense, we can feel as relaxed by adopting any other ritual, from doing deep breathing to counting sheep.

Why keep the stressful nicotine in our mind and body?

Weight Gain

Substituting cigarettes with other forms of nicotine makes you feel you are making a sacrifice by quitting. This, in turn, makes you feel deprived. And when we feel we’re missing something, we try to find other ways to fill that void.

The easiest, fastest and most comforting way is food.

Right?

That’s why nicotine products are likely to cause you to put on weight.

2. Vaping

Vaping has a short overview. The reason is simple: Vaping is NOT a quit smoking method.

Vaping is a physical and mental addiction. You still make the same hand gesture; you stay addicted to nicotine, and to the idea that you need nicotine to feel relaxed and happy. You’re just using a fancier device.

And remember that at some point, you will have to quit vaping, which is the same as quitting smoking. Because you still have to experience nicotine withdrawal, stress, weight gain, and deal with having your hands empty.

Research that was presented at the American Thoracic Society Conference shows that people who managed to replace smoking with vaping did so for 3 – 6 months.

Yes, most smokers who vape STILL go back to smoking because they want the “real thing.”

But who can blame them? They never even had the chance to overcome this addiction.

In case you are planning to vape forever, you need to know that vaping cause pop-corn lung and damage our vision.

There is countless proof. Unfortunately, this truth is not in the best interest of tobacco companies. (Yes, most vaping devices are sold by tobacco companies).

3. Smoking Pills

Smoking pills cause chemical reactions in your brain that make you feel less enjoyment when you smoke. But for how long? And at what expense?

Easy

The chemicals pills have side effects like depression, hostility and suicidal thoughts, so they make your life nothing but easy.

In fact, they are dangerous. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), has received over 1,513 reports of adverse reactions, including 62 reports of suicidal feelings.

In the UK alone, Champix was the cause of 80 deaths from 2006 to 2011. Half of them were suicides. Some might think that 80 deaths are nothing compared to the thousands of smokers who use this pill.

I cannot accept this, and I believe you feel the same way. Every life matters.

Permanent

Taking smoking tablets decreases your cravings for nicotine…for as long as you take the tablets. Some people manage to stop smoking for a while. Others still smoke while taking this medication.

But here’s the thing. Medication does not remove the reasons why you smoke. Your desire for a cigarette is still there. Plus, you still don’t know how to keep your hands busy or deal with stress and boredom without cigarettes.

You tell me: How easy is it to relapse when a big problem comes up or after a heated argument?

Stress

Since this medication messes up the chemical balance in our body, it can cause an overall emotional imbalance and stress.

So not only we feel stressed because we can’t smoke, but we also have the additional emotional burden that comes with the pills.

Listen. Medication does not alleviate the stress. What really helps, is finding alternative ways to relax, feel happy and cope with life without smoking.

Weight Gain

Smoking pills will not cause weight gain or help you manage your weight.

4. Quitting with Willpower

Using your willpower to stop yourself from smoking is a natural smoking cessation way and the healthiest alternative so far. Let’s have a closer look.

Easy

Here’s what happens when we use our willpower to stop smoking cigarettes: we first stop smoking and then wait for our desire to smoke to fade away and disappear.

But does it disappear by itself?

Unfortunately, it doesn’t. Because time and willpower can’t remove our need to smoke.

What happens instead, is that we feel deprived and the thought of a cigarette becomes even more precious.

When a craving strikes, we can think of nothing else other than smoking. So we either suffer or give in and smoke.

That’s why the willpower way is unbearable for most people.

Permanent

The success rate of quitting abruptly with willpower is 4-7%.

This shouldn’t be surprising.

When you stop smoking while still ENJOYING it, then you feel you’ve lost a friend, a comfort.

And the more deprived we feel, the more we tend to rationalize our thoughts of having “just one cigarette” in times of stress or even in happy times.

We say to ourselves “one puff won’t hurt.”

But this puff becomes a cigarette. One cigarette becomes two, and soon after that, we’re back to our smoking habit.

Stress

When you deny yourself the cigarette you crave… you suffer mentally because you still desire a cigarette, but you can’t have it. That’s when you start getting anxious and overwhelmed.

If you’re like I was, then your anxiety might be increasing just at the thought of not being able to smoke when you are stressed, bored, or when you feel your hands empty. So you live in a constant state of irritation and agitation.

Let me tell you, this is not how smoke-free life is supposed to be like.

Weight Gain

Most smokers who quit and gain weight are the ones who use willpower to stop themselves from smoking.

Trying to resist a cigarette with willpower, can only make you turn to food so you can distract yourself from your craving. Also, cravings feel a lot like hunger, so you get tricked into eating without being hungry.

And the thing is that most of us go for fatty food when we feel down. Because fatty food is comfort food. If we eat chips or chocolates every time we have a craving, then gaining weight is inevitable.

5. The CBQ Method

The CBQ method is a natural smoking cessation method that removes your desire for smoking. You don’t take harmful chemicals, and you don’t stay addicted to nicotine.

So if the CBQ is a natural way to quit smoking, then what’s the difference with using your willpower to quit?

The difference is that with the CBQ method you first stop desiring a cigarette, and THEN you quit.

When you use your willpower, you do the exact opposite. You first stop smoking and THEN wait for your desire to smoke to disappear all by itself.

If you think about it, this is also how nicotine products and smoking pills work. You first try to stop yourself from smoking with these products and then you expect (and often pray) to wake up one day and not feel like smoking anymore.

The fact that the CBQ removes your need to smoke before you quit has some incredible benefits in store for you.

Easy

When you stop craving a smoke before you quit, you can’t possibly feel deprived without cigarettes. Plus, you don’t need to use willpower to resist smoking. Because there is nothing to resist.

Keep in mind that when you use a method that removes your cravings from the core, you don’t experience problems like concentration, headaches or fatigue because there are no cravings to cause them in the first place.

That way, you may not even notice the physical withdrawal from nicotine.

Permanent

The CBQ helps you become a happy non-smoker because it removes the reasons why you smoke. And when we are happy without cigarettes, and we have absolutely no reason to smoke, we don’t relapse.

Besides, the CBQ teaches you new ways to deal with stress, boredom, anger, depression and of course, how to enjoy social occasions, keep your hands busy and manage your weight without cigarettes.

Because if we can cope with the ups and downs of life better as nonsmokers, then we don’t need to ever take another puff.

Stress

When you stop enjoying smoking before you quit, you don’t experience stressful cravings, and you don’t overthink about the situations when you can’t smoke.

So you don’t feel anxious when you don’t have a cigarette. Because there is nothing to miss.

The best thing is that the CBQ method includes exercises and techniques that show you how to relax without cigarettes.

Weight Gain

When you stop desiring a cigarette, you don’t feel the need to replace it with food, because there is nothing to replace. This is enough to keep you from putting on weight.

Some people even lose weight because quitting increases their sense of well being so they make healthier food choices without putting any effort!

Can you see now why removing your desire for cigarettes is the best way to stop smoking?

In fact, removing your desire for smoking before you smoke your last cigarette… is the easiest and most reliable solution.

So now you know what are the 5 most popular ways to quit smoking and which works best.

That’s why, if you haven’t done so already, make sure you watch the free video where I show you how you can stop smoking with the CBQ method. To get the video click here (just add your email address so I can send you the link to your video.)

If you have watched that video, here’s what I want from you:

I’d like you to leave a comment below.

And please share the #1 reason why you smoke and the #1 reason why you want to stop.

Today, you’ll read a CBQ Program review and learn how one of our members, Debra, 47, accomplished these wins:

– Went down from 20 cigarettes a day to 0 with the CBQ Method after 28 years of smoking.
– Started enjoying life better as a non-smoker even though cigarettes used to be her escape.
– Found quitting smoking EASY and knew that she’d never need to smoke again.
– Reversed the effects smoking had on her health and appearance.

All of this while going through a divorce – enough said.

On top of that, she had to work full-time and stay strong for her teenage son.

From Debra herself:

“ Quitting smoking while settling my divorce with my ex-husband and working full-time was extremely stressful. I was emotionally and physically exhausted and although it would have made sense to smoke more during this time, something happened and I did the exact opposite. I quit; I just did!”

Here’s how she did it:

How Debra Decided to Stop Smoking

“I had low energy and I was short-winded because of smoking, but my health was relatively fine. So I never had a pig push, you know, to make a serious attempt to quit.

Although I wanted to quit, I just couldn’t find the motivation. Menopause was a whole big deal for me all by itself: the hot flashes, the feeling that I’m not who I used to be, it was all just bringing me down. And I had to deal with my 16-year-old marriage ending and all that.

My cigarettes were my only comfort at my lonely moments; they gave me courage.”

You may remember when I was invited to do a TEDx talk. That’s how Debra found the CBQ Method.

“I was cooking dinner when my son burst into the kitchen and showed me that video about Nasia Davos’ CBQ quitting method. He was like, you should check this out, and then later I went to the website and subscribed to check the posts and videos.”

Then Debra signed up for the CBQ program. “I wasn’t sure at first. It’s a time commitment and it wasn’t super cheap.

Do I really want to do this? How can an online program help me to quit?

What I need is willpower!

So I searched for reviews about the CBQ Program, the CBQ method and Nasia Davos.

After reading many CBQ Program reviews, and to my surprise, I learned that the CBQ method helps you quit without willpower. And the CBQ Program was helping you quit in 10 days using the CBQ method.

But I thought I already had my life a mess as it is – no way I’m quitting now, but this might be good for the future. I hadn’t heard of the CBQ method before but it seemed like the best option at the time.

Nasia had good ideas about how to calm my anxiety and not think about smoking all the time and miss it. She made it easy.”

The timing couldn’t have been better. Debra had an encounter with her ex over their vacation home.

“I left the lawyer’s office in shreds. Within few hours, I went from frustrated to angry. I was furious; not because of the house but because I realized that I was acting as if my life was over.

Well, it wasn’t. My life’s ahead of me. And I have a wonderful child to give me purpose. I was thinking about how smoking could kill me. I couldn’t lose him. So I decided to stop choking myself with poison and get healthy.

Sometimes you have to take a step back and see what really matters. I needed a change. A good one this time”

How Debra Stopped Smoking with the CBQ Method

As Debra followed along with the CBQ Program, she decided which days she would watch. “Some days I couldn’t watch the program. So I was watching every 2 days on average. The old me would have doubled her smoking. But I was cutting down 1 cigarette every day. Slowly and steadily. I read some CBQ Program reviews from others and they’d done the same.”

She still got results. Debra started feeling more and more confident without smoking.

“The exercises were working. I felt I was needing cigarettes less and less. And I was able to notice the difference in my breathing from early on. My son was so proud of me… that gave me the strength to keep on going”

Her effort paid off. She quickly landed down to 0 cigarettes a day.

“When you said it was easy to quit, I have, to be honest; I doubted you. But it was just like you said. I smoked my last cigarette and immediately felt that I was done with smoking. Your method helped me get rid of this empty feeling I got when I had a craving.

I was enjoying my meals, my break at work and watching the Walking Dead with my son- just as much.”

How did it feel?

“It felt good… like I’m finally doing something for myself.”

And she is a happy non-smoker. “I am not even tempted. Funny how I used to think smoking helped me enjoy life. Energy and health help you enjoy life. And smoking takes them both away. I can see that now.”

What’s been the practical effect of stopping smoking?

“Hmm, the smell, of course… my face doesn’t have this yellowish tone anymore, I feel fresh, I breathe better, I have so much more energy to take a walk, work and just do more things all day feeling good.

Even stress is better. I mean, still have a lot going on but now I know how to manage my anxiety and the CBQ exercises helped a lot. Oh yes, and I have saved so much money, few thousands now, that I’m taking my son to Europe.”

Think about Debra’s reluctance to invest in herself before. She mentioned the price of the CBQ Program was high. Yet after watching the program and doing the CBQ exercises, her entire perspective has changed to the value of her lifestyle. This is what we mean by “Breathing Life”.

Some thoughts on quitting…

Before the CBQ Program, Debra was afraid that she will be miserable without her smokes. As she put it: “I felt I would never be happy without my cigarettes.”

The odds were against her.

Not anymore.

Now she is enjoying her life more than ever.

  

*We always use pseudonyms to protect our members’ privacy.