If you intend to free yourself into gambling better to divert your attention to something that will keep you busy and consume most of your time and energy to forget about your gambling activities.
You are right. If we want to keep ourselves away from gambling then we must be busy with something else. If we have a lot of free time then we cannot keep ourselves away from gambling. Because earlier we needed to go to the casino to gamble. But now there is no need to go to the casino. We can gamble on the computer or mobile. So we must reduce the use of mobile or computer, and keep ourselves busy with something else. We can chat with friends in our free time or go for a walk or do a workout. These are good for our mental and physical health.
That will be the right move. Find a new hobby. That's how we are going to keep away from gambling, and that certain hobby should be a good one that could entertain us truly so that we can forget about gambling completely. For me, it is an Anime series that keeps me from gambling, and somehow, that helps me keep my mind busy and lets me enjoy it too. Gambling all day is so stressful, and I learned that the hard way. I lost a good amount before I realized I should be taking some rest sometimes.