1. Focus on your family or friends - if you have strong relationship with your family and friends then you will forget to play gambling, and they may help you to limit yourself from gambling.
Our family can do much to help us avoid gambling addiction, as I have proven that once I was addicted to gambling. We always listen to their advice to us because it will benefit us especially if we already have our own families. It will serve as a lesson or a way to keep ourselves from gambling and to focus more on our family and our time. We need it for us to have control over gambling and to have limitation for it.
To do this, you need to have a strong connection with your family values and your family.
Often, people who are addicted, have these connections partially or completely destroyed, which does not allow them to use such a powerful resource for healing.