This is amazing, you are able to distance yourself from gambling with not much of an issue. This is definitely not easy for a lot of people out there. They will try to avoid for days or weeks, but within a month or 2, they will still end up coming back to gamble for more. It has already been a habit for them.
Yeah this is good and you are one of very few gamblers that are able to control your emotions. So you haven't bet for let's say two years from now. Do you still gamble or is it getting into your mind that you want to gamble again?
I believe it takes around 6 months to form a habit, and around the same to break one.
So he probably doesn't have the urge to go gamble anymore, the start is the hardest, later on it gets easier