Then, when I started as a new gambler, I was sloping into addiction, using money I should have saved. Luckily, I cautioned myself.
Presently, I can boldly say that it didn't affect my reputation as I gamble carefully.
Good to know that you went so well with your current life status, that it didn't affect your reputation. However on my side here it's really a problem and it really is my concern right now, once I did gambling my reputation was also affected.
The only way to solve your problem is not to gamble or just gamble silently because we can do that nowadays with lots of crypto gambling sites in the space. We don't need to tell people what we are doing, let's enjoy ourselves and maybe tell only the people who knows how to gamble as they are the ones who can usually understand us and why we are doing it.