For sure it is not applicable for all, it will certainly have its boundaries, and OP has said if a person still wants to gamble but doesn't want to get addicted to it then they should do the option OP has said which is pretty much applicable for some, but it is not going to be applicable for all, for sure if those people you are saying is not yet addicted because an addicted person is pretty much harder to come back from his addiction, sad to say but it is the truth, for me there is a sense of making them less addicted and that is what has OP have said, there is still a chance once you become addicted to it in some point the human minds sometimes can withstand being addicted wth only his mind,
- Agreed, if there is no such intention with a spring inside him to quit, this gambler will not be able to get rid of it. Just trying but no one really wants to change. That's why our number one enemy is ourselves. And when we overcome defeating ourselves, for sure it will be easy to give up gambling.
Although, there are others who still gamble but they know how to control themselves and limit gambling, in short, these are the responsible gamblers who gamble but are not addicted.
If a person has full control of what he is doing he is still intact within not getting addicted to it, there is really self-control that most people have those being addicted have lost their determination in controlling themselves not to gamble, that sense of urgency to gamble will surely show if a person has a weak mind it will surely show those tendencies,
But it has shown that it can fully be controlled by anyone with a strong-willed person not giving any possible traits that he is addicted, because addiction will surely start once your mind shows weakness,
The mistake of a gambler is when they make gambling the main source of making money and put it as the main goal in their life. When they make gambling the main activity in their life, of course there are many things they will sacrifice and that includes family. So there's no need to be surprised that most of the addicted gamblers don't have a good relationship with their families, because they really don't put it as a priority in their lives anymore.
I think this doesn't happen all the time because I have seen many taking the act of gambling as a form of just buying time for themselves this just happens when a person is desperate which is got a small percentage in our society I believe there is a chance for this people to return but preventing it from happening is surely what we have to do 1st,