New Practitioner from New Zealand: I'm a non smoker now

(Clearwisdom.net) I had been a smoker for 15 years, though I had tried to give smoking up many times.

The good news is that, I am a non-smoker now, and have been for three and a half weeks. My fiancé has been a Falun Dafa practitioner for just over a year.

I feel that if it wasn't for my fiancé putting the (Dafa) Lectures on and playing them every day, if he hadn't done that I would be still smoking.

My brother and his wife are party animals. They took every chance to drink and have a party. As their home is the place where everyone gathered, the party continued from Friday right through to Sunday. In the meantime my fiancé and I did not go out and party, and instead, we stayed in and listened to the Dafa lectures.

After two weeks of listening to the lectures, I thought to myself as I woke up on a beautiful Monday morning, "I am going to give up smoking." I ran into my brother's room and his wife looked at me, waiting for me to say something to her. But instead they both looked at me and told me the best news ever, that they both decided to give up smoking and drinking. I was so happy and turned to them and said I had come into the room to tell them the same thing. For a while I thought they were not serious. However, they both have kept their word to this day.

Anyway, after receiving the best news ever from my brother and his wife, I told my fiancé that my brother and sister in-law and I were all giving up smoking. He turned to me and gave me his biggest smile ever; he looked happier than me. I turned to him and said that they are giving up drinking too. We were all so happy that day.

As soon as we had made our minds up, everyone, as in all my brother's friends and some of the family began coming over to my brother's house with loads of beer and cigarettes, asking us if we wanted to drink or smoke with them. We replied that we have given it all up. At first they didn't believe it and thought we were kidding. My sister in-law told them no smoking in the house and no drinking as well. When she told them that, they knew she was serious and meant every word she said. They now respect us and smoke away from from my brother's property.

Now that I know how powerful Falun Dafa lectures and exercises are, I also have taken up Falun Dafa and am grateful for my fiancé and his friend for introducing it to me. They don't know how grateful I am.

I send best wishes to all the new practitioners.