From my experience giving up from gambling is not a easy if you are addicted toward the gambling. You need a counslar to stop the gambling it just like the addicted towards the drugs and you just choice the other option to deviated your mind from the gambling
That's true, giving up gambling is never easy. But it doesn't mean that it is as bad as drug. Remember, gambling never later any of your senses and your ability to think, like what drugs do.
It means, it is possible to give up on gambling without so much effort. You only need to be willing and that's it, you are good to go.
In my opinion, if a person has a job, I don't think that he will get addicted to it, unless there is a extreme reason why he became a gambler and got addicted to it.