If you are always alone and you think gambling is the solution, that's wrong. Loneliness can cause gambling addiction easily, when you are alone and you are gambling continuously, you will end up being addicted easily, it's better you get something else doing rather than gambling, just look for other things which can take your time, but if you think gambling is the best option, you will end up being addicted, and we all know addiction is always difficult to stop, so it's better you do everything possible to avoid addiction, and you might even be addicted and you wont know about your addiction, you might be thinking you are still gambling for fun and you can control yourself, but you are addicted and cant control yourself any longer.
If i know i will be alone for a long period of time, then i wont really be staying at home, i will get myself something doing to keep myself busy like being with some of my friends often, with that i will gamble less, but whenever am alone, then the rate at which i will gamble will be high.
You don’t have a gambling addiction because you’re lonely, you have a gambling addiction because you have a discipline problem. Start saving money and delay that gratification rather than using your vice (gambling) to fulfil that emptiness you feel inside. As for the lonely part, you deal with that by putting yourself out there, join some groups, play some video games, find a hobby and make friends that way, I can promise you there are people out there that can relate to you. Also, start working out, you will build yourself up and you only require yourself to do it, this too will rid you of those empty feelings by validating yourself and building confidence.
When dealing with any addict, understanding is key to helping. Without the ability to understand their addiction you cannot fully help them. The best was to truly understand someone else's problems is by talking to them about it. Gamblers are not much different than drug addicts. Both are chasing a high, and will go to the extreme trying to catch it. A drug addict might lie, cheat, steal, and act with little regard towards others feelings. A gambling addict will do a lot of the same things, but the high they’re chasing, is the high of winning.
This is actually the best advice that can be given to anyone who feels they can use they boredom and place it with their gambling habits because the only truth is because they lack discipline and once anyone lack discipline they can do anything to fill a void in them and doing other activities like video game playing can aslo be a good means of actually feeling this void. I once had a cousin who actually had similar issue and he also blamed it on the emptiness of his mind and always found himself in a gambling house trying to fill his dreams.