We should get back to roots of addiction. Like you have said, body looks for hormones - hormone of happiness imo. I think we can trick our body and seek for such hormone somewhere else. Second reason of gambling addiction is greed. I think it can be beaten by finding additional or different source of income (job with bigger salary). Of course that wont help for 100%, but I am sure that it might help to make pauses between gambling sessions larger.
But if we already have an additional source of income with a bigger salary and we are still gambling, it can cause us to gamble with more money because we see additional money in our wallet that we can use for gambling. But if we can decide that we really need to stop gambling, even if we can earn a bigger salary, we will really stop gambling and be able to walk away without any problems. Gambling addiction is indeed difficult to leave, but we can try to reduce gambling, both time and money, until we can really leave gambling.Sometimes having another source of income stream can make us confident to gamble more because we think that we still have money to wait even if we lose. Having a lot of money can trigger some aggressive mindset but somehow it will be stop especially when people realize that they are losing to much money for continuous playing. This realization can make us decide to quit for a while and for sure we go to this process but we end up still gamble but in controlled manner that's why we are still here.
