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.
self-control is one of the things you always need to apply when you feel you are on the brink of any addiction. if you think, you can't contain yourself anymore, better stop and contemplate on your life. remember, no one will truly help you but your own self.
find other valuable activities that you think you can enjoy at. so your attention would go somewhere more worthwhile. you will thank yourself later on for not being consumed with such addiction.
It's best to always re-assess yourself, if you think that you already got too much engagement and you still have that opportunity to quit it's your will to proceed and quit away, find something else that will make yourself busy either a physical activity or something will help you to forget any access to gambling.
ANd it's true, it's only you who can help yourself to keep away from gambling, the rest are just a support to push you while working
in quitting into any participation with gambling.