Happy “Spotlight Wednesday”!
Today, 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
Yesterday, the inspiring CBQ Nicotine Freedom Program member Sarah Walters from England, UK, celebrated 5 years smoke-free. Sarah was a smoker for 26 years. For many of those years, she tried to quit multiple times with stop smoking approaches from nicotine gums and patches to hypnosis and everything in between. She always went back to smoking during cravings, and started feeling hopeless. But after attending the free CBQ masterclass, Sarah understood why she had struggled to quit in the past, and why the the CBQ Method could work for her. So she decided to join the CBQ Nicotine Freedom Program, committed to the process with an open mind, and the rest is history!
Now, Sarah is saving over £2,000 every year she’s smoke-free. (Over 10k saved in total!)
Above all, she’s truly done with smoking. She does not crave smoking, and even though her husband smokes she’s not even triggered. That’s freedom!
This is what Sarah shared about her journey:
This is Sarah with her CBQ Success Certificate. (Her smile is infectious!)
Inspiring Milestone
This week, CBQ Nicotine Freedom Program member Kevin Watts from Massachusetts, US, celebrated 4 years smoke-free!
After smoking for more than 38 years, Kevin never thought he would be able to quit. As he put it, he had “quit quitting.” He knew smoking was more than a physical addiction, but he couldn’t understand what kept pulling him back.
When Kevin joined the CBQ Program, he worked through the lessons, and began to understand the psychological side of smoking and how to break free. After completing the program, he quit and has been consistently improving his life since!
He even joined a health club with all the money he saved from not smoking and picked up tennis!
2 years after his quit date, Kevin reflected on his journey and what helped him most:
4 years after his quit date, Kevin is still free and proud!
This is Kevin with his CBQ Success Certificate:
Inspiring Success – Quit Vaping
This week, CBQ Nicotine Freedom Program member Robin Sheffield from Texas, US, celebrated 4 years vape-free! Robin started smoking when she was 13 years old. Since then, she smoked for 41 years and got up to 2 1/2 to 3 packs a day. In an attempt to quit, Robin turned to vaping, and got addicted for 7 years.
This is what Robin shared about her inspiring story:
“My quit date was July 17th 2022. I threw everything away before I went to bed on the 16th. I started smoking when I was 13 years old and got up to 2 1/2 to 3 packs a day. After spending thousands on all sorts of ways to quit (acupuncture, patches, hypnosis, etc) I read this book that made me quit in 2015 (40 years later). Well, that lasted 3 days and I was ready to go buy some cigarettes. I remembered that I had a pen style vape and charged it up. I started vaping and never smoked another cig again. My doctor told me a couple of years ago that I may have the first stages of emphysema and I’ve been on inhalers since. I got covid pneumonia 1 1/2 years ago and the first thing they told me is that my lungs were fried. I was in ICU and almost died, but after getting out of the hospital (16 days later with no vaping) I tried to go without vaping but couldn’t. My brain was consumed with the thought of vaping and wouldn’t stop. So, 7 years of vaping, I really, really, wanted to quit and went thru your program for a 3rd time (I felt that the first 2 times were not helping me at all (I don’t think I was doing everything correctly)).”
Robin said:
”So for 47 years, I was either a smoker or vaper, and now, I’m neither. It is definitely a mind thing, and the mind is a powerful thing. I AM TRULY FREE!”
4 years later, Robin is still a happy non-smoker! This is what she shared recently:
This is Robin with her CBQ Success Certificate:
Inspiring Transformation
This week, CBQ Nicotine Freedom Program member and musician Andre Burns from Ontario, Canada, celebrated 6 years smoke-free and marijuana-free! Andre started smoking when he was just 10 years old. It was at a time (1970s and 1980s) when they made it very easy to smoke.
As Andre told me during our Ask An Ex interview (highly recommend watching it!), his father used to smoke. And it was common practice back then for a parent to send their child to the corner store with money and a note to buy cigarettes on their behalf. As a curious boy, Andre wanted to try cigarettes and then started making his own permission notes. By the time he was 14 years old, he was a full time smoker. Even though he rarely smoked more than 20 a day, he became very addicted to cigarettes, which eventually led to alcohol and weed dependencies.
After having tried everything (pills, patches, and other approaches) to stop smoking, weed, and alcohol, Andre found the CBQ Program and decided to give it a try. At first, his intention was to stop smoking with the CBQ Program. But after he went through the CBQ process, Andre changed his mind and ended up quitting smoking, alcohol and weed! He’s incredible, right?
“June 14th, I quit drinking, July 12th, I quit smoking marijuana, and my quit date for smoking cigarettes was July 20th.”
That was 6 years ago!
As he said, “Everything that is part of the CBQ method. She has a course of videos that give you a step by step approach. I actually was given by a doctor all of the stop smoking aids but that involved taking pills everyday and dealing with side effects which I did not believe in. Then I came across Nasia’s program and have never been the same. An outstanding program that was exactly what I was looking for. I would recommend CBQ method to everyone!!!!!”
This is Andre holding his CBQ Success Certificate:
I hope today’s spotlights inspired you and showed you that you can also break free! A big thank you to our members who gave me permission to share their stories with you.
To your freedom,
Nasia Davos (MBPsS, IPPA, MA)
Ex-Smoker, Psychologist, Creator of the CBQ Method™
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