It is much better to prevent getting addicted to gambling, much better than allowing oneself get addicted and then after, start looking for a cure. So, for the hardcore gamblers, it is a good advice for them to from time to time visit sites like this as a way of being precucious of the possiblity of gambling addiction, and also as a prevention.
As it has been popularly said, prevention is better than cure, if you're gambling, then try as much as possible to make sure that you avoid doing it in an uncontrolled emotional manner, gambling must be made to the best satisfaction of how we needed but not to get addicted along, we also must learn to plan ourselves properly, gamble responsibly and also make the very efforts we could afford in having the best experience with gambling than being addicted.
Yes is more easier for a none addicts to avoid addictions and stay addiction-free than an addict trying to pull out of their addictions, this is the most proclaimed and workable tool that gamblers and other substance users must have at the back of their minds.
So for sure, it's better to avoid falling into gambling addiction than try to fight it because most times it is almost impossible to survive gambling addiction since this activity is openly accessible to most.
I share in your view, prevention is better than cure and I've been advising people on this many times. One could prevent gambling addiction completely from the beginning by not just dabbling into gambling but first trying to know the good and bad sides of gambling and how to only work in the line of the good and avoid the bad side of it entirely. Gambling is not easy, still, with the right education, one can know how to gamble, manage their games well and still preserve their psychology. But the dos and don'ts of it must be known before this is possible and they can only be known through the right education about gambling. People often underrate gambling education because gambling itself is informal, but it's very good.
But, unfortunately, there is no school for gamblers, at least I don't know of any except the random advice online. So as an adult, it's important that you learn it by yourself and get to be careful of what is making you go astray. Imagine when you are gambling and losing consistently and do not stop to take a break from it and restrategize, then something must be wrong. Every gambler needs to be sensitive and shun the controlling influence of gambling and be disciplined, and these must be done regardless if the person is new or old in gambling.