Call yourself to order whenever you're gambling and having nothing to tell concerning your experience in what you do, have a time to run a check on the kind of gambling lifestyle you've had in couple of times, access yourself on a grade level to see if you're proud about what you're doing or not, also check if there's need for an improvement to be implemented, consider the benefits it has served you in many ways and that which you may have lost at the same cause and weigh them all together, if you think you're going too far already, then try to apply wisdom and gamble moderately.
Someone who is already addicted will hardly have the time to appraise themselves. It is not only being addicted, when you have a group of friends who gamble with you and not even one of them say ill about gambling. I mean anytime any of you is called upon, there will be no objections. Maybe there is this competition among you to see who gets luckier and who losses the most. If this happens to you, just know that you are going extreme in gambling and the only way to deal with this is to reduce your association with those set of friends. If this cannot happen which I know it isn't easy to happen, try to relocate and meet different set of persons
According to what is said above, it is nice to always have a second thought about whatever thing you are doing in life.