That's why therapy remains one of the best methods of healing addiction. But people would think that therapy sessions is expensive and they don't know ways to afford them. But in the years of their addiction, they were able to generate money to finance their gambling habit. Forgive me, but it's quite unbearable to see that people easily fund what's dangerous to their health, but hardly could afford what's helpful to the brain. However, they may also lack the knowledge that, therapy doesn't necessarily have to be with a professional. Even the professional can not successfully handle therapy if the gambler is not comfortable with sharing his problems with the therapist. Therapy requires friendship, like building a relationship. The therapist only appears to be the type of friend that the addict has never met in his entire life. When that is achieved therapy begins to flow easily. They both can develop more bonds together and share problems and ways to tackle the dispute. Hence with these few experiences, an addict who is willing to change can confide in a friend he loves to act as his therapist. And it will work.

Same way friends could lead a person to gambling, another friend can also channel the person's brain out of gambling. But in whatever way the addict chooses to follow, time is the most precious commodity the addict needs to change his ill behavior. But I'm not sure that after therapy with a professional or not, the person would be able to stop gambling completely. He can be gambling normally, but won't waste on his money on gambling. Unless he has no access to the internet or a gadget, then I can accept that he won't gamble again. I could remember being glued to video games, but today may not be able to make plans on my own to play video games, but once I see people playing it, I'd be moved to participate. That's how it happens in any addiction in life. The addict only needs to stop being around the people that still partake in that activity.