I agree with this point, it is very important to have that self decision that you want to stop gambling of which that will make you explore every means to getting free from it but if you have not put your mind to stopping, you will still back to it and go back to gambling after trying to stop. Gamblers are the problem to themselves when they ever want to quit gambling, you see some of them still trying to make quick money and find themselves going back to it repeatedly. If you wan to quit gambling, firstly make the decision and every other thing is secondary.
To take self decision about stopping gambling we have to do several things otherwise we will miss everything which will be required for gambling. First of all we don't have to keep any free time we have to spend all the time in our work or at least we have to read/write novels, watch movies and so on. If we have free space then we must have to proper use of our time.
I did that, even read books about how to remove debt and be debt free and was only successful for some months. My doom was the Gates of Olympus Super Scatter game as I started taking it way to seriously and have started leaving a lot of money on that game. For me though I am strong enough, I did it once for 6 months I can do it again indefinitely and the reason to do so I got it yesterday night, it kept giving me lost after lost game in the super buy bonus which I love from this game as the potential is there yet it is never seem to come. I will post a specific thread about it maybe some time later though in there you can hit the 500x multiplier and not get more than 2000x as a total so it is a mechanic that sucks, now I learned it and going away from it. Starting from today as that saying goes, start where you are with what you have.