Easy to say but very hard to do, I agree that we should keep ourself busy with something else that take our focus away from gambling, but the fact that we get back to gambling almost everyday I think its very difficult to put aside for the most part of the gamblers. I am trying to do it but so far not really successful although some very little improvements.

There are many reasons for gambling. Not everyone gamble to 'get rich' in fact most people have other problems and excessive gambling is their 'cure' for these problems.

To know what type of activity will help you 'stay away' from gambling you first need to identity why you gamble:

1. You crave for adrenaline rush and excitement?
¤Instead of gambling you could pick adrenaline pumping sport: racing, climbing, parachute jumping etc.

2. You gamble to forget about life problems?
¤The answer is: seek help with professionals, talk to your family and friends.

3. You gamble because you are bored and lonely?
¤Find something you always wanted to do, beside gambling - find other people passionate about the same thing, make friends.

4. You gamble to get rich, solve your money problem?
¤You have to know that odds are against you, gambling is not a good way to earn money.

Like others have stated, find another hobby. I'm a gambler and enjoy it, but was in a situation like yours. At the casino every night, bookies during the day. I was either flat broke, or rich for a day or two before giving it back. Real sad existence. I started investing in silver and buying coins and bullion. I read books and watched videos etc, and that was my gamble. I rode the 2011 wave up to $49 and sold half my silver at $42, wish I'd dumped it all. Last year I started buying again in the $14-$15 range and will continue to accumulate while the price stays under $20. Not giving advice to do this, just what's worked for me.

I still gamble, but maybe only once a month or weekend in Vegas.

It depends on how much engrossed you are about the activity you are doing. If your time and mind is occupied enough, you will have no time to spend for gambling. Do it long enough, you will be forgetting about gambling soon. If it does not work, you may need to really seek the help of a professional. It may be the only way to quit gambling addiction.

Realizing the truth about their actual position with the gambling is not possible for an addicted gambler.
They themselves believes they are doing perfectly on their motivation towards making good fortune from gambling.

Some game or ps4/xbox perhaps?? It's actually hard for them to do that. Especially nowadays that you can gamble using you phone as long as it has internet. They are prone to temptation and keeping a hard time to control the urge. The best way is little by little or maybe step by step, on getting out of it.

Gambling is only for matured and strong people, if you don't belong to them you should not try gambling as I am pretty sure about the positive negative effect in your life, it is true that we need to keep ourselves busy in doing some productive things like trading and invesment than devoting our time fully in gambling.

It is not so easy to stay away from gambling like what you are saying. Others also advice what you've said but they are still coming back in gambling. At the end it really depends on the attitude of one person if he really can stay away or not.

I set my own limits to what I can bet and how much overall I can gamble with every week.  I stick to it with no exceptions.  I think if you will set limits like this, you'll find that gambling can be a fun activity and it's okay to lose this small amount.