Was addicted early in my senior high school days, I am always playing cards with my friends. We have to hide every time from basement to basement until the summer ends and we have to go resume school after. Every weekends I have to go to my friends house to ask whether they are interested and when I learn they moved on. Nothing else I can do but move on as well. Nothing serious to that addiction, another addiction takes over it.
Gambling addiction is only in our minds, I'm sure when something else has represented itself, you'd forget about gambling.