Happy “Spotlight Wednesday”! I’m excited to share with you some of this week’s most inspiring success stories and tips from the CBQ community.
Let’s dive in!
Inspiring Milestone
This week, CBQ Quit Smoking Program member Debra Arena from Pennsylvania, US, celebrated 4 years smoke-free. Debra was an avid smoker for 30 years and tried every approach to quit. For years, every one of her quit smoking attempts ended in panic and failure.
But after completing the CBQ Program, Debra quit and found it easy.
To this day, 4 years later, Debra still has no desire to smoke! This is Debra with her CBQ Success Certificate:
Inspiring Success
This week, CBQ Quit Smoking Program member Jelena Runic from Beijing, China, celebrated 1 year smoke-free. Growing up in the Balkans, Jelena was around smoking from a young age and it became part of her life. After trying to quit many times, she joined the CBQ Program and found her freedom.
This is Jelena’s powerful advice for anyone who feels stuck:
And this is what Jelena shared about her journey with the CBQ Quit Smoking Program:
Tip of the Week: How to think about Mindpower
This week’s tip comes from CBQ Program member Michal Sturgess from New South Wales, Australia, who has been smoke-free since September 27, 2022.
Michal explains one of the key and coined CBQ Method concepts: mindpower
“I think of mind power as the observer. Think of your habitual brain like a small child and observe its behaviour. Don’t jump ahead in the program, take your time with it and trust the process. When it comes to using mindpower think of it like interacting with a small child, you are not being unkind to that part of yourself or its perception of needs, you are listening and helping to guide it to behaviour that is better serving. “Oh your feeling bored/ frustrated/ stressed etc? Let’s go for a walk/ call a friend/ look up a new recipe etc instead” rinse and repeat until you find better behaviours that serve your wants/ needs and the responses stick.
This is why really studying your smoking prompts is important, it helps you understand the root need that wants to be addressed and sets the groundwork for the next stage.
Live the process, you need to recondition your brain which is going to be really difficult if you don’t immerse yourself in the process.”
As always, I want to say a huge thank you to our amazing CBQ Program members who have given me permission to share their stories!
To your freedom,
Nasia Davos (MBPsS, IPPA, MA)
Ex-Smoker, Psychologist, Creator of the CBQ Method™
