Your story is a good motivation for others who are trying to control their gambling habits.
One thing I have learnt from my experience is that "time heals every wound".
Utilizing your time effectively will help you tackle any addiction and will heal all your wounds.
By keeping yourself busy in good things, you will surely come out as a better person.
It requires consistency, you know when you doing something for the first time, you're struggle. But after you doing it for a month, you're fell okay and it's like you doing well. After few months or a year, you can start a life with new routinity and you can completely quit from your addiction.
It's a good thing @OP aware with his addiction, I hope other addicts do aware if they're an addict and choose to change their life.