Overcoming life issues

While we were up country this Christmas 2016, I met a childhood friend (Henry) that we have been out of touch for several years and he is struggling with some issues in life. The good thing is that he came quite close to me and also opened up. We got engaged in discussing these things and I started challenging him on one major aspect. These were hard because although everyone knows about it in the community, no one will there talk about it. I challenged him to consider to stop smoking weed and he agreed and appreciated me for saying what no one has ever told him to do. The following day, someone who owed him paid with a huge quantity of weed! This is an enormous temptation. I encouraged him to bring this matter to God. To tell God that it is more than Him and that even though he wants to stop it, he is really struggling and God will surely make a way. I told him to throw it away or burn it but I do not yet know what he will do with it. He promised me that by the time I come, back I will see a change in his life. I reminded him the Scriptures on Matthew 11:28-31 "Come to me all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loats and I will give you rest. Take my yoke and put it on you, and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit; and you will find rest. For the yoke I will give you is easy, and the load I will put on you is light"
This Scripture challenged and changed my life several years ago, pray that it will speak to the life of my friend Henry.