Honestly, before I gambled very often which can be said that I could not even pass a moment without gambling and maybe it can be said that I was really addicted, but this all changed after I realized that it was a very wrong approach to gambling because it was too high risk for the financial situation in my life now.
For now I usually only gamble about once every 2 weeks or even once a month, the point is now I can control my gambling activities better, simply when I have a lot of activities then usually I will be busy with that and not care about gambling, or it can also be said that I will only gamble when I really want to do it and that too if for example I have some money that I can afford to lose.
That's a very nice move to retrace your gambling habit, judging from the effect it could have had on your financial life. Sometimes we need not just to worry about the money that we spend on gambling; we also need to calculate how much all our regular spending on gambling put together in a year could remove from us.
If it's an amount that will affect our annual expenses, then it should be cut down, which is exactly what you did. You just have to let go of the gambling pleasure. Now you don't gamble on a regular basis again but gamble like a seasonal gambler, who places bets once in a while.
changing of gambling habit is very important more especially if a gambler always use more than he or she is suppose to use to gamble but sometimes it does not really matter provided we are gambling responsibly i mean using what we can afford to lose or let go and gambling often is not actually bad or wrong per say, if you are making more profit than loss. Some people lose money in gamble because of greed and the quest to regain what have been lost, some people when they win gamble they will want to double or increase their staking power to maximize profit forgetting the fact that anything is possible in gamble. i gamble more than 3 times a week sometimes depending and i discipline myself.