Dawn Merino
Maryland, United States
Quit Date: January 8, 2022

Smoke (actually vape) free since January 8, 2022. Thank you CBQ for saving my life.

The program works for vaping. I vaped non stop. I couldn't leave a room if i didn't have my vape. I couldn't grocery shop without going in the bathroom and vaping. I smoked 2-3 vuse pods each day. If I couldn't vape i wore a half a nicotine patch. I used to smoke 2 1/2 packs a day, then vaped the equivalent or more.

Let the program work, only you can get in the way of progress. If you could quit on your own you would have quit already. Follow the program and do not be in such a hurry. You can do it. I was a hard-core addict. I had to listen to the videos over and over again. I panicked so much about counting how many times I vape that I stopped on day 6. I always knew logically I should not smoke but I couldn't figure out all the emotional reasons until doing this program.

If you keep working the program something is going to click, once it does you can do this. Crave freedom.

Think of something really hard that you accomplished. This is when it clicked for me. I went to law school. It was really hard. The reason I succeeded in law school was because I believed I could do it if I worked hard enough. I pictured myself as a lawyer. I recognized the benefits of being a lawyer. Apply the same principles to quitting smoking. Think of the hardest thing that you accomplished. Figure out how you accomplished it. Apply the same thoughts to smoking and you will succeed. This is a mental battle. You are smarter than an elephant or a cigarette. You got this.

Trevor Starr
Vermont, United States
Quit Date: April 25, 2018

I quit smoking on April 25th, 2018. I replaced smoking with exercise. I used to wake up and smoke, then have coffee and a smoke then drive to work and have a smoke. Now I wake up and exercise every morning and I love it. I don’t even think about smoking. When I have a craving and I cannot exercise per se, I research new exercise programs and diets I can experiment with.

I love this program and I’m telling all my smoker friends about it.

On April 30th, 2018, I started an 8 week couch to 5K program. On May 18th I turned 46, and I bought myself an inflatable paddle board. On June 27th I got my 5K Runner Badge. I continue to run 5K plus 3 days a week, and I get faster every day I run. Through it all I have lost 35 pounds.

None of this would have happened if I had continued to smoke. In fact I hate to even think about where I would be if I were still smoking. I am so excited to be a non-smoker, and I love my smoke-free life. Thank you Nasia!

Lance Draper
Alberta, Canada
Quit Date: April 20, 2020

I quit on April 20, 2020. Me and my wife’s 18 wedding anniversary.
No relapses or cheats at all!
It’s been quite strange though. I have tried quitting many times and with many different techniques and each time I am, as you say, a deprived non-smoker. And all I can do is think about smoking.

This time however, it hasn’t been like that. Sure there are some triggers but for the majority of the time, I don’t even think about smoking. I go through the days and then I will realize I don’t even remember when I might have last thought about smoking.

I know you explained to us how the program works and took us through step by step, but I admit I was skeptical because it seemed like hocus pocus and I had so many failed attempts with different methods. But somehow it just worked. I had that last cigarette at 7:00pm and then the next day I did not even miss it. Not even with my morning coffee 1 hr after waking up:). I don’t think about before going to sleep thinking how good it will be to wake up and have a smoke, or when I do wake up thinking how good it will be when I get my coffee.

I want to thank you for developing this program and thank you and your team for your support.

The biggest thing about this for me is that now I finally feel like I’ve been able to keep my promise to my daughter that I will quit. After making this promise so many times and failing, I know she was beginning to give up on me, and disappointing your child like that is one of the biggest heartaches I’ve ever had.

Thanks again for everything.

Lance Draper - Happy Non-Smoker! 🙂

Natsumi Lemiesz
Kyoto, Japan
Quit Date: February 2, 2022

I relapsed countless times before I was guided to CBQ and after doing the program for the first and second time, but the third time it finally stuck.

What really worked:

Put in the work. I printed exercises day 4,9 and 10. Read and practiced every time doubt crept in.

Every time I craved a cig, I reminded myself that by not smoking in this situation, you’re rewiring your brain.

In my journal and monthly review, I kept congratulating myself and honoring my non-smoker journey. I’m my own cheerleader!

When I was smoking, I always had the background unhappiness.

Lately I feel content and feel inner peace.

Taking a walk and seeing all those flowers bursting and growing now gives me an overflow of joy.

I rarely think about smoking at this point.

This program works, so put in the work and trust.

So grateful that I've been guided to your work and it literally transformed my life! I loved your daily checkins in the program, and also the follow-up emails that have continued to help me stay on track. I really thank you for positively impacting our lives, you are a beautiful human being inside and out.

Nemanja & Katarina Kovacevic
Serbia
Quit Date: February 19, 2020

Dear Nasia,
Since I have completed the program in February 19, 2020, not even one thought about lighting up !
I am telling everybody how easy it is, just follow the exercises.
I am already making other plans using the tehcniques I learned here 🙂
There are no words to describe how happy my family and I are.
Thank you

Mike Miller
New York, United States
Quit Date: January 29, 2020

I am pleased to have found the CBQ Program and Nasia Davos and the whole program team who assisted me in reaching my goal to become a non-smoker. I had smoked about a pack and a half for the better part of 50+ years. My grand kids had been asking me to quit for a number of years and with this program was able to break the habit/addiction and smoke my last cigarette on January 2020. Thanks again for all the support and the wonderful program.

Lee Fletcher
England, United Kingdom
Quit Date: June 24, 2022

The CBQ Method has changed my life! I’m absolutely over the moon that I’ve managed to quit smoking using the CBQ Method! I can’t tell you how proud of myself I am! I’m 47 this year and have been smoking around 30 a day since I was 15 years old. In the past I’ve tried to quit using patches and vapes and succeeded for about 8 months, but because I was still entertaining nicotine in my life, I think it was only inevitable that sooner or later I’d be back on the cigarettes. Which is exactly what happened.
The CBQ Method is a game changer though! It educates you to understand how the craving mind works and allows you to come to the realisation yourself just how bad nicotine is for you. Not only that, but it gives you the necessary tools to overcome your cravings without nicotine replacements and shows you how much happier you can be living a smoke free life! I’ve been nicotine and smoke free since June 24, 2022 and know in my heart that I’ll never smoke again!
Thank you Nasia and the whole team! Words can’t express how truly lucky I feel I have been finding the CBQ Method.

Elinor Fibel
South Carolina, United States
Quit Date: November 11, 2018

I do have my certificate framed as a reminder of a former life of a 55 year addiction. I’ve been smoke-free since November 11 of 2018 and going strong. I do not see myself returning to smoking. Thank you Nasia Davos and God for helping me with this accomplishment.

Larry Johnson
Washington, United States
Quit Date: August 13, 2021

I quit on Aug 13th 2020. I smoked for 50 years. I know I will never go back to smoking.

For me I never believed that smoking was all about chemical dependency. If that were true smokers would be like other addicts and wake in the middle of the night needing a fix. That never happened to me in almost 5 decades of smoking. When I found this program I knew I was at the right place. My advice would be to follow the program and know that it’s mostly a mind game you are playing. That helped me a lot.

I tried many times to quit. I would quit for a few days or a week and then back to smoking. After going through the CBQ program something in my brain switched and I simply no longer needed to smoke. First step was to think of myself as a nonsmoker.

I bought the program because I want them to make money and be able to continue this great program. Also I thought it would provide more in-depth detail and it did.

The CBQ Method is amazing. I don’t miss smoking at all.

Teri Traubert Edge
West Virginia, United States
Quit Date: September 19, 2021

Thank you so very much for this excellent smoking cessation method, CBQ Method, that you created to help people like me finally stop smoking!!!

I have been trying to quit smoking for many years. The first time I tried was in 1987. I started smoking in 1977. So I have smoked for 44 years and have tried to quit for 34 years. I have literally tried every method known to quit. Being a smoker was never who I truly was. Your program was the first to have ever worked for me and it worked like magic. I know that sounds unbelievable and I cannot explain it.

I have tried and failed with every other method out there. I was a smoker who truly believed I enjoyed smoking! Smoking is the absolute worst!!! The only people who benefit from smoking are big tobacco, morticians, and pharmaceutical companies. Freedom is so sweet!!!

I have learned so much from the CBQ program and I owe Nasia Davos a great debt. For me, in the past, smoking a cigarette was my first coping mechanism! For anger, depression, and everything else in between. I would leave the situation, go off by myself somewhere and smoke and think about what was happening inside of me. Then I usually felt somewhat better or more together and I would rejoin the situation or not. So the cigarette would get all the credit for making me feel better( when it actually was only relieving my craving for nicotine) and I was the one actually doing all of the work trying to figure out how I was going to cope with the situation. As a non smoker, I still remove myself from the situation and go somewhere by myself to think. I just don’t smoke because I fought like hell to get rid of that problem and I no longer have to satisfy the nicotine craving. Removing myself from the situation does help.

The other thing I’m doing is I ordered a workbook on cognitive behavioral therapy and I’m working my way through it. It’s not easy but at 62, I figured I better start learning to cope with my problems without a cigarette. It’s a journey.

Such an amazing program! I will recommend it highly!!!

Stacie Thorpe
Michigan, United States
Quit Date: April 21, 2020

I smoked for 40+ years. I had tried many, many times to quit and failed. It was not until I stumbled across this program have I been free of this horrible addiction. I owe it all to Nasia Davos, If it wasn't for this truly amazing CBQ method, and the quit smoking community, I would not be this far today. TO all of you starting out, STAY THE COURSE, you will get here!