Base on my experience it is really hard to quit gambling specially when you are already used to it, before my parents will get mad at me becauase I forgot my responsibility as a mom also they sees me almost got broke because of being addicted in gambling. One day I realize to quit gambling and I really want to do it so by the help of my love ones and determination to change I now stop or quit in gambling .
In my own points of view, to quit gambling doesn't mean you quit yourself because we can find other alternate to gambling which we can make our life meaningful. We can set other kinds of habit to entertain ourselves. Let's make our family the true and meaning of our life.
You are absolutely right because we have other sources of Entertainment for free, we should not bother much about that the gambling which we left because it is always good to leave before we are losing fame and money. Once we are quit we have to find other sources of entertainment to manage ourselves not to bother about it again and again.
. The whole idea of catching fun from gambling anyway is just a way for some people to justify the reason why they gamble and pull away the idea from their head that they are simply gambling to win.If you are not gambling to win, then where is the fun ? The only thing here is to just know how to control yourself without expecting too much from it and then know how to limit yourself in a way so that things would not get out of hand and if things eventually get out of hands, it is still in your hands to quit or to let gamble destroy you.
Like what Ive answered in a past discussion its depends upon the person. Also it is categorized into two which we may think that one is doing gambling for fun and the other one is to have another income, which they think that it can help them to increase their money.
The "to quit gambling is to quit yourself" well actually it is just for those people who do lots of mistakes but still doing the gambling. Also we can say this if we want to stop because it is not good for us to do the gambling.