I personally don't see staying away from gambling as something that requires too much help efforts or advice as long as the individual involved make up their mind to gamble within the set rules and limits, this is very important because everything starts and ends with the gamblers not the casino or anyone else.
That's true, everyone makes their decision individually of becoming a gambler and choose their desiring platform for that, in which in all of these process, no one enforces any decision making process on a gambler, so they are expected to also make an effective use of the gambling avenue for their own good as well as considering gambling in the normal and appropriate manner that suite their standard without complaining.
You both are right, but would be important for us all to understand that, before a person decides to go into gambling, he or she have the power of decision making, they themselves can decide to start gambling or not to start gambling, and that power is always with the person even when he or she has started gambling, and the power of decision will continue to be with that person for as long as the person continue to gamble within the general rules of gambling.
But then, immediately the person starts gambling overboard and as a result, gets addicted to gambling, that power will start to leave little by little, and depending on what level that addiction has gotten to, the power of decision may completely have left the person, at this stage, it's no longer in the hands of the person to decide whether to gamble or not, for that power have been taken over by the person's addiction to gambling.
So, whenever we come across gamblers who are addicted and complain of their inability to stop gambling, we must do all we can to help them, for it is one thing to be addicted to gambling, it's another thing entirely to have the courage to cry out for help.