It's really hard to stay away from gambling if you addict into it. Like me, i'm really hard to stay away from gambling. Even i promise to myself but still i come back into gambling. My advice is go hang out with your friend, it's works for me.
How long you've been gambling?
i have been gambling for ~3 year i find it easy to control myself, whenever there's urge to gamble i just go watch movies or play mobile games.