Giving up gambling is not easy, if you are only saying that you want to quit gambling with your mouth. But without works of quitting, do you think you are going to quit gambling? You need to push a plan so that you can quit gambling.
Yeah that's one way to effectively do it, you must have a plan. If you're already addicted to gambling, it would be hard to just say you're going to stop doing it. And just stopping for a few days would most likely end up with you gambling even more the next time you do. So you have to plan hard and make sure that you have the dedication to follow that plan to quit