Seeking the advice or help of concerned family members and friends could be of great help but sometimes they are limited because most of them lack the needed counselling skills.
Help from family members will be the best since family members are closest and also understands that estent of damage such attitude has brought upon such person. The only challenge is that, most people don't bring family to the cause of the damages they effect, they tend to hide it away from them knowing that family needs no approval to activate a corresponding correcting measure on them.
This is a good option but we can still have to consider that not everyone has the interest of considering the family members once it comes to their kind of way of life in gambling, but those that could help in this kind of situation are most likely the family members because they cannot afford watching one misbehaving and they do nothing about that in their own capacity, this means as a gambler, we should also value our family because when things turn up side down, they are our last hope
Family plays a very important role in the general well being of any of its members most especially those that allow themselves to get involved in each other personal and private matters, while the one with the problem is looking for solutions to that problem most especially when the problem has to do with something as forceful as gambling addictions that need all the support needed to fight and defeat it on the long term base.
So those that have close loving family will indeed find things a little bit easier on their side since for at least they will be receiving some level of support from their family and being encouraged daily to overcome the addictions.