- Keeping myself busy and focusing on work.
Keeping yourself busy is one of the best ways for an addict to distract themselves from gambling. They can find a hobby that they enjoy, or do work, or do other activities that keep their attention away from gambling. Because the problem that gamblers often face is that the urge to gamble arises when they are not doing anything - although this is quite difficult to do because not everyone has the same ability to restrain themselves, but if this is practiced continuously then over time an addict will be able to control their addiction to gambling.
You are absolutely right, keeping oneself busy is one of the fastest way to eliminate or reduce an addiction in gambling and another way is taking away things that makes one gamble. Now someone will ask what are these things I should put away, number one is deactivating your card you use in depositing online to gamble and two uninstalling those applications but the sad truth is that it is always easier said than done because one has internalize this act and disciplining this act can be very hard, I'm not an addict but I know what it means to be an addict because I have live with one.