In my opinion I think it's one of the right steps to take when you are trying to recover from gambling addiction. Because what you don't do constantly you start losing the urge for it. Not just depriving yourself for a like a month or two. If you can deprive yourself for like a whole year or two, and find something else to engage your mind like learning a new skill or finding anything that will keep your mind engaged for that period of time that you are depriving yourself from gambling. You will find out at the end of the deprivation period, that you will view gambling differently from the way you saw it at the first time that you were battling addiction. The urge for those reckless gambling will fade away and the addiction will be gone.