I can control the desire to gamble and even though for example when I have money but I have no mood to gamble then I won't gamble at that time. Moreover, I do gamble only with small part of my money and if I lost it, I will stop instead of chasing it with my other money.
And that is what gambling should be all about.
If you cannot see the fun in gambling and the fact that it is just a game you are paying for and only if you get lucky you can win something back even after having that fun, then it is not even ideal for such a person to imagine going into the gambling world as that is the way you can easily control yourself.
I gamble once in few months just when I miss the environment and I only go around with what I can afford to lose which I see it as something I pay for the fun just in the case of going to the movies, Disney or whatever to have fun as the case may be.
Some just always turn it to something else until it finally turns them to something else.