Controlling of gambling depends on the individual and how they placed priorities in their gambling activities because when they so much thinks about what they would benefit From gambling it gives them that opportunity to easily gets addicted to gambling, whereas their initials plans weren't to get addicted to gambling but gamble and eased stress but at some point it became uncomfortable where they would have to get addicted to gambling.
It is completely true that controlling yourself from gambling depends entirely on yourself. If you have positive thinking about gambling that you can get many benefits from gambling, you can win a lot of money, you can get rich very quickly, then gambling will seem very important. Then gambling will seem like a place with a lot of potential income. This is not unusual. And then the desire to gamble will arise again and again.
If you start gambling and think of gambling as something positive, you will never be able to control yourself, no matter how conscious you are. Because when the mind starts thinking positively about something, no matter how big the risk is, there is no fear, but rather confidence increases on that.
That is why is not good to entirely reply and depend on gambling for something more productive and of course we shouldn't be that self reliance on what we should be gaining from gambling as a result from what we have had stake or place as bets. Most times this thinking keep making us feels like there are possibilities that something bigger gonna happen soon, even though we have to be optimistic about gambling it shouldn't be that way where we would be that depending something huge from gambling to make an ends meets.
So, a gambler it's important to always see gambling as a game of fun and not a game of profits or incomes but when the income comes then we should see it as an additional benefits to us while gambling but let it not be our priority while gambling.