That kind of bond will allow them to talk about the situation, once they already bring that to the topic you may start bringing the things that you know that will help them to stop or lessen the chance of letting them to play, that's the good timing to discuss all possible venue to keep them away from any related gambling activities.
Avoiding by means of keeping them busy with other activities that will eat most of their time will surely help them to forget anything about gambling.
Busying yourself with things unrelated to gambling can help someone reduce gambling activities, especially if he has a creative environment that always tries to get him involved too. This will make him think about what he is doing with his friends so that his mind from gambling can be distracted. This can also help the gambling addict to reduce his gambling habit and in the end, he can recover from his addiction without having to visit a specialist. But this all also depends on the environment's role in helping people suspected to have experienced gambling addiction.
And even better is to have a job and then do other useful activities, and with this time to play even thinking about gambling there will be no room.
and most do gambling activities because there are no other useful and productive activities for them and only think about gambling, and this happened to my friend. And after he works from morning to evening, after that he goes to the gym and other positive activities, finally over time he doesn't think about gambling. But all of that must also be assisted with a real intention to do so.
I would compare overcoming the passion for gambling with the problem of a tobacco smoker who wants to quit smoking. In the case of smokers, the most difficult thing, as everyone who has ever smoked cigarettes or a smoking pipe and then quit smoking, is the first week, when you really want to smoke and you have to make great efforts not to. In case of refusal from gambling, of course, this period is not a week but more, but the principle is the same.
At first, I really want to play, then this desire gradually begins to dull. At first, the thought often, sometimes even continuously, spins in my head that as soon as you finish work, then immediately go to the computer and gamble.
Then this thought begins to appear less and less often, and in the end it may disappear altogether.
That's when this happens, you can safely say that you will never again become a gambling addict.