All man has his weakness, but when it comes to things that concerns our future, it should be strengthen.
Most of the time a gambler cannot quit because he is weak and probably not just weak physically, but weak in decision making and lacks enthusiasm to be in the real world and of course, the famous reason, "laziness", they always have reason for anything which are most of the time not a valid one.
Yes gambling exploits the weakness of gamblers. When one person is targeting achieving big money he is usually vulnerable to get emotional failure and gambling is focusing to indue their greedy to get addicted. Just in long run every gambler become addicted to gambling thus finding giving up gambling is similar to dying.
Most of the time a gambler cannot quit because he is weak and probably not just weak physically, but weak in decision making and lacks enthusiasm to be in the real world and of course, the famous reason, "laziness", they always have reason for anything which are most of the time not a valid one.
But, regardless of their ability to make good decisions for gambling, gambling plays more cruelly to make them facing losses continuously. Unfortunately due to addiction they are not thinking about leaving of gambling just with only reason of addiction. Losses vs addiction is a very big battle in gambling still gamblers giving priority to addiction and continue their gambling to have more losses.