After a hundreds hours of gambling I found out that it's pretty hard to stop playing. Gambling becomes a strong addiction and has a negative impact on other aspects of life. I have tried to control myself over and over again and found out that the best way is to make a long pause to let your mind relax.
I think the best way for you is not just pausing but totally stopping for a while. You are getting addicted to it due to long hours of gambling. That is a bad thing. Quit while you are still in control. It would be harder to stop if you are full on addicted to gambling already.
It is essential that before getting addicted to such thing one can either resist them self or change their course of action before it is started to take on it, as addiction in gambling is bad and we have seen people losing money from it.
Addicted to something is actually bad especially in gambling, after we got it, maybe we need something very interest to do so we can forget to play about gambling and stop it. But for other cases, people meet psychiatrist when they can't solve their addiction.