Playing video games is not always effective in overcoming gambling addiction depending on individual personality, some adventurous or war video games might help fill the time to avoid gambling activities without buying any items from the game.
For me the main solution to disappearing gambling is that he has committed not to gamble anymore and avoids the gambling environment or keeps his distance from his gambling friends, he has to find a new environment to forget his past and has to have more activities outside to hang out with friends. He must change his mindset to appreciate the income from hard work not to be wasted on gambling, but apply his financial management to family needs and financial needs for your future.
Mindset is the engine room for making crucial decisions, which inturns it can be a negative or positive one on our lives. Another thing is stay or avoid friends that gamble, because they will definitely influenced the mind with these activities. Gambling is not an option to break out free from finance challenges, instead we ought to look for a more legit reliable source to generate income. Perhaps there are several ways this path can be done, all we have to do is to make sure we understand what we are doing, and most importantly what favours us.
Actually it is true that a wise mindset will help them to be able to reduce gambling activities a little after that they can stop gambling slowly in a way like he said playing video games.
Maybe, as others have said, playing video games cannot guarantee you will stop gambling, but if the video game is interesting and challenges the adrenaline like something that is tense, of course, emotional feelings will divert to the video game without thinking about gambling and after that, every gambler wants to get into gambling. they remember if the video game is not solved he prefers to play video games.
Lots of gamblers do things like this to try to stop gambling.