Well if you can't control your gambling addiction what you can do instead is find another addiction that is less life threatening like being a smoker or addicted to video games.
with your case, i suggest u focus on gambling to stay away from smoking and games addict, seriously. u can get rid of gambling later.
Smoking it can reduce your long life gambling cause it can lose your money 90%. So its better to be addicted in any games or MMOrpg online games Like dota2 and league of legends...
being addicted to computer games may lead to gambling, i remember when i was on high school, i am addicted to DoTA. every dismissal time i always go to an internet cafe and play DoTA with my classmates and due to addiction, we came to a point that we used to bet with it. we are the players on the game and we are also the bettors
thus, moderation should be applied.