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As any other smoker and ex-smoker who believes in the mind over matter approach, I know of Nasia Davos and her work with habits coaching, self-development, and the CBQ Method.
I was searching for Davos’ Wikipedia page and saw many queries and reviews about her, so I dug in and found out everything I could. After joining her Facebook group, attending her webinars, watching her videos, reading dozens of her articles, interviews, reviews and just about everything written about her online, I put together a bio.
Early Life, Education and Background
Nasia Davos is a Greek – British author, psychologist, and life coach in her 30s who’s known for helping people become their best self by changing their mindset, overcoming addictions, and breaking behavioral and thinking patterns that hold them back.
She was born and raised in Athens, Greece, and moved to London in her early 20s to further pursue higher education.
Davos has a BSc in Psychology and a Masters in Psychoanalysis. She’s a Licensed Master Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner and was trained by Richard Bandler, the co-creator of NLP. She’s also a certified NLP coach, Time Line Therapy Practitioner, Hypnotherapy Practitioner, smoking cessation practitioner, and holds a diploma in executive coaching from Cambridge university.
While a psychology student, she started working as a volunteer and then as an assistant Psychologist with children and adults with anxiety, depression, trauma, intellectual disabilities, eating disorders, autism, ADHD, and addictions in clinical and educational settings both in Greece and the UK.
She discovered her passion for psychology as a teenager and through her own experience with therapy, and her mission is to help people become their best self, in any way they define best, by making psychology practical for everyone.
In one interview, Nasia said that what guides her is to “make a positive impact on other people’s lives.” And that “at the moment, there is a lot of stigma around mental health, and I believe that if psychology was more approachable to access and use, then more people would use it in their daily lives – so they would be happier and healthier as a result.”
Davos has been coaching CEOs, executives, and entrepreneurs for many years in changing their behavioral patterns from addictions and habits to thinking patterns, limiting beliefs, happiness, confidence-building, and managing stress. It is said she’s the go-to coach for celebrities and high profile individuals who value privacy, and the waiting list for her private one-on-one coaching is 3-5 months.
The CBQ Method and Davos Rise to Fame
Davos rose to fame with the CBQ Method, a method with 4 stages that helps you overcome addictions and self-destructive habits, and it’s based on CBT, NLP, and Neuroscience.
Nasia was a smoker and tried to quit, but when nothing worked for her, she took matters into her own hand and decided to use her psychology expertise and find her own solution. She researched and interviewed experts on addictions and ex-smokers to see what made quitting easy. As she explained on a webinar, she took what the people who quit happily did right and put it into a step-by-step method that everyone can use to stop smoking. That was the first version of the CBQ method that she used to quit smoking herself and then used it to help others. When the CBQ was working for more and more people and received positive reviews, Davos knew she should do more to reach more smokers with her method so she partnered up with someone who’s a genius at business and could help bring the CBQ in front of more people.
The CBQ Method started gaining popularity in 2016 when Davos was invited to speak about it on a TEDx talk that has more than half a million views.
Today the CBQ is known to millions of smokers and ex-smokers and is considered the “it” method to break any unwanted behavior. Due to its 4 stages, it is also used to quit alcohol, binge eating, sugar addiction, and other unhelpful patterns like negative thinking, lack of confidence, and stress.
According to Davos, “quitting a self-destructive behavior is all about growing into that version of yourself that doesn’t do or need that behavior anymore.”
She hopes that the CBQ will “help people rely on themselves to cope with the ups and downs of life; not rely on nicotine, alcohol, food or any other crutch” and help them replace self-destructive habits with empowering ones.
Personal Life
- Davos is an INFJ personality type, which can be described as “Quiet and mystical, yet very inspiring and tireless idealists”
- She’s known for her distinct accent, unique content and approach.
- She lives in London with her family.
- What makes her proud is when she sees her students, clients, and members, succeed, turn their lives around, and then inspire others to do the same.
- The CBQ Method company is involved in charity and contributes to charities like the American Lung Association and the Cancer Research UK.
- Davos loves self-development and helping others become their best self – however they define “best.”
- Her drive to create solutions that improve other people’s lives comes from her own desire to solve issues she’s struggling with and then create processes that others can use to get the same result. She tries all her methods on herself first.
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