We have to routinely carry out small actions or do things outside of our old habits, namely gambling, to form new habits that will help us divert our minds to these new things. If we can do small things regularly, we can start adding other things that can make us even busier doing it. This will help divert attention carried out continuously to make us stay away from gambling.
Exactly, if you find other things that can gain your attention it will divide your time and your focus, it's good as an alternative to break some time with your gambling activities, and with self-will you might find yourself focusing and trying to divert everything just to avoid your gambling participation, it's always on your side to choose whatever direction you wanted to point your attention.
If you want to quit, there's always a way to begin with. Just add your will and it can happen along the way.
Anything to be able to attract the attention of a person with an addiction is a gain, because for a person with an addiction it is good that there are things to be able to have more time doing another activity, and that is what should be applied in those cases , so that keep your body and mind busy with other things, for that reason you can do more things against addiction but with the supervision of an expert, with a psychologist and sometimes even a psychiatrist because it is very common that other activities can be done, such as sleep cures or something like that so that the person does not have that anxiety and the dream makes them Understand the damage that is being done.