It’s CBQ’s “Spotlight Day”!
Get ready for this week’s most inspiring success stories and tips from the CBQ community.
Inspiring Milestone
This week, CBQ Program member Pauline Westfield from England, UK celebrated 5 years smoke-free! When she first joined the CBQ Program, Pauline was not at all excited to say goodbye to her cigarettes. She enjoyed smoking a lot, but after smoking for over 40 years up to 30 a day, she felt she had to quit – or at least try.
Despite being skeptical, Pauline did every exercise and every step outlined in the CBQ Program. By day 5 of the program, she felt excited to quit. By day 8, she couldn’t wait! She smoked her last cigarette on the 13th of September, 2019.
5 years later, Pauline is over 70 years old and feels like 20. Her inspiring journey started when she attended the free CBQ webinar 5 years ago.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Pauline as part of CBQ’s Ask An Ex series. You can watch Pauline sharing her story of how she quit smoking with the Cognitive Behavioral Quitting (CBQ) Program:
Inspiring Quit Smoking Benefits
This week, CBQ Program member Gary Richmond from Michigan, US, celebrated 3 years smoke-free. While interviewing Gary, he told me he smoked his first cigarette when he was just 13 years old. Then, he said, “I smoked for 33 years up to 2 packs a day”. He tried to quit on his own. but it didn’t stick. He even switched to vaping but ended up smoking and vaping.
After coming across the CBQ Method, Gary decided to join the members’ program and give it a try. To his surprise, by day 10 of the program he could not smoke more than 2 cigarettes. He quit, and 3 years later, he’s still a happy non-smoker… who has saved over $10000 from not smoking.
You can watch Gary sharing his story on this Ask An Ex episode:
Tip of the Week
This week’s tip comes from CBQ Program member Carol Poste from Ontario, Canada, who has been smoke-free for 2 years, 4 months & 10 days. This week, Carol shared with our community her tips for success.
Believe you can succeed and take the time you need.
“I am so grateful for this program I never imagined I could stop smoking after 50 years!
It’s been 2 years and 4 months & 10 days
I did it in 3 weeks and have never looked back … follow the lessons and do the homework & really believe you can do it … if I can do it anyone can and life is so much better xoxo
Thank you Nasia Davos xoxox love you xoxo”
And 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!
