CBQ Spotlights

Celebrating YOU: This week’s spotlights [January 28, 2026]

Happy “Spotlight Wednesday”! January is almost over, and this week there are so many inspiring people celebrating milestones!

I hope today’s stories inspire you that a year from now, you could be celebrating too.

Inspiring Milestone

4 days ago, CBQ Quit Smoking Program member Gloria Pedersen from Alberta, Canada celebrated 3 years smoke-free! Gloria smoked for 48 years and tried many, many times to quit.

One day she found out about the CBQ quit smoking program and joined feeling hopeful and apprehensive. But she followed the process, and she quit.

3 years later Gloria feels still happy to be her!

CBQ Program member Gloria Pedersen celebrates 3 years smoke-free

Gloria’s message for everyone who’s struggling: You are worth it!

Gloria Pedersen's advice to other smokers

This is Gloria with her CBQ Freedom Certificate:

Gloria Pedersen CBQ Success Certificate

Inspiring Success

This week, CBQ Quit Smoking Program member Laura from England, United Kingdom celebrated 6 months smoke-free. Laura smoked for 17 years and found quitting smoking so easy that “it doesn’t even register as part of my life anymore”

Laura AC 6 months smoke-free

Tip of the Week: Make yourself number one in your own life!

This week’s tip comes from CBQ Program member Paula Torke from Texas, US who went back and forth with smoking almost all her life.

She tried using willpower, but it didn’t work. She spent $500 on quit smoking medication, but that didn’t work either. Then Paula chose to do the CBQ Program, and not only it worked – it’s been 4 freeing years since her quit!

This is what Paula shared:

Inspiring Milestone

This week, our wonderful CBQ Program member Sue Lee from England, UK celebrated 5 years smoke-free! Sue broke a 40-year addiction after many failed attempts.

Sue had a very strong behavioral attachment to smoking. She shared that she was “the worst kind” of smoker… “first thing in the morning last thing at night. If I could smoke in the bath I would have…”

She decided to gift herself the CBQ Program, started watching the process with a mix of fear and excitement, and followed every step at her own pace.

The result?

She finally broke free!

Sue Lee inspiring milestone

On her 3-year milestone, Sue still can’t believe how easy it was!

Sue Lee 3 years smoke-free

5 years after her quit date, Sue is still a happy non-smoker

Sue Lee 5 years smoke-free

As always, a big thank you to all our members who shared their stories! I hope this week’s spotlights inspired you and showed you that you too can succeed.

To your freedom,

Nasia Davos

Nasia Davos (MBPsS, IPPA, MA)
Ex-Smoker, Psychologist, Creator of the CBQ Method™

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About Nasia Davos
Nasia Davos (MBPsS, IPPA, BSc, MA) used to smoke, and she tried every method available, but nothing worked for her. That’s why she created the CBQ Method™. Nasia is an author, TEDx speaker, Licensed Master NLP Practitioner with a BSc in Psychology and an MA in Psychoanalysis. She is a Certified NLP Life Coach, Smoking Cessation Practitioner Certified by NSCST, graduate member of the British Psychological Society, and member of the Red Cross. Her extensive research on smoking cessation formed the CBQ Method that has helped hundreds of thousands of smokers become happy non-smokers.