I think everyone knows the difficulty of quitting something that is inherent or addictive. With gambling that can be addictive for the players, of course this will have a bad impact on them and the impact can even fatally damage their mindset to become crazy. Without the intention within themselves, in my opinion, it will be useless even with encouragement or support from their family who advise them to stop gambling. Only they themselves can do it to stop gambling and leave all the madness in gambling.
It may be difficult to stop directly, but there are various ways for them to try in order to leave gambling addiction, one of which they can reduce the length or frequency of their play, for example if they play every day they should be able to reduce it by playing only on weekends, and their daily lives are filled with other activities that are more useful, or they can also fill their daily lives by forcing not to gamble. So however it all depends on themselves, because they alone have the decision.
Experiencing a gambling addiction can be prevented by each person. Still, they don't want to do it because of the pleasure they continuously get so they decide to use it more often and in this case, they use gambling more often to get that pleasure. They don't realize that they actually have a gambling addiction but can always deny it and say they are fine. People who see that they have a gambling addiction often suggest trying to do other things apart from gambling so that they will get used to doing other things and that can prevent them from thinking about gambling.
yes because gambling has made them addicted even though they always lose but successful gambling makes them crazy to gamble. They pursue satisfaction that never gets so they continue to gamble with high hopes of winning, occasionally they will win but because they are crazy about gambling so they don't have a sense of satisfaction because they haven't reached their highest point, so they will continue to chase that empty dream with hope.
It is true that only they can reduce or even stop gambling because advice from other people will not work if they do not have the awareness to start. They can try to reduce their gambling and choose to gamble only on weekends. And this requires a strong determination to be able to change habits that have been going on for a long time so that he can slowly reduce his gambling activities and even stop gambling. If they can realize this, of course, it will help them to be able to escape from the influence of gambling and will not be tempted by anything in the casino and they will just have to gamble as usual and if they are having fun, they will immediately stop gamble.
That's right even though they get support or encouragement but they themselves don't realize the bad effects of gambling it's a waste of time, advice and suggestions will pass by without them being considered in the future. I myself admit that getting rid of inherent habits is difficult, in my opinion gambling addiction is not much different from drug addiction, I have seen people who are heavily addicted to gambling where they have not gambled because their money has run out but they sell all the things they have to return to gambling, the same is the case with drug addiction, they will do anything to return to the addiction that has been attached to them. So as you said the importance of self-awareness must be set in their mindset.