We are talking about weaning from gaming. I thought that weaning from gaming would most likely only work in very advanced cases, when the player is at the bottom of a financial crisis or on the verge of suicide. Then weaning from gaming would most likely work well. But if this is not the case, then what is the benefit of weaning from gaming? Perhaps the logic is to create positive habits in a person.
even without allowing yourself get to the point where others tries to isolate you from every form of gambling triggers, you can also wean yourself and sometimes deprive yourself of gambling so you at least become certain that you are in control of your gambling habits. self deprivation helps you know weather or not your are in charge of your gambling. if for instance you decide that you are going to abstain from gambling for a period of two weeks and then you find it difficult to do that, what that means is that you are obviously tilting towards becoming an addict if you do not watch how frequent you gamble. with that discovery, it becomes easy tame yourself from excessive gambling and work towards becoming a responsible gambler.
call it deprivation or even voluntary self denied, it goes a long way to reduce how exposed one is to gambling addiction.