Good point, if you will keep occupying your mindsets and keep yourself busy with your love ones or with your friends, people who are not engaged to any gambling related activities, it will be easier to cope up and lessen the chance of the temptation in bringing yourself inside any gambling activities. It's more about how serious you are in moving or quitting away from this business.
Once you figure it out, your system will comply and you will start to stay out of any gambling participation.
it's all up to oneself if you want to divert your mind from gambling there are many aspects that can help someone stay away from gambling such as busying daily activities with family or with our wives. but as the op said on the front page is a quite appropriate solution if someone really wants to stop playing real money gambling then he can try playing gambling with fake money. some ideas or suggestions may have been conveyed in this thread and it is very good for someone to apply this to their lifestyle so that they can get out of gambling and return to life with a better structure than before. The point is, if there's a will, there's a way.