2 Corinthians 6:14-18 King James Version (KJV)
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
Sometimes I think we read the word of God and we think that it is optional. One of the ways that you're going to change is that you are going to change the people who you associate with. It is impossible to change when the people in your circle are still engaging in the thing you are supposed to be disengaging from. I don't know why we think we can hang around addicts and not be affected by Addicts. Change has to be more than just in you it has to be in your environment. I remember a story my mother told me of when she moved from Chicago to California. She was dressed in a bunch of bright colors and she was screaming up the street some rhetoric she had heard on the street. She found out they were looking at her like she was crazy. In California she learned how to join book clubs and she went back to get a high school diploma because you can't get a job washing dishes without one there. When she changed her environment it changed her life and therefore you have to begin to change your environment if you truly want your life to change.
