The only thing that’s difficult for me to stop gambling is because I studied so well poker and blackjack, I am a very good card counter, that I don’t want all this knowledge of mine to be useless. But experience showed that I failed to “enjoy” gambling” and went into excessive betting. And in poker I am an underdog although I know how to play well, but play too much high stakes, that I decide under pressure.
Otherwise it is easy for me not to bet a single dollar on casino games. Put me in some casinos around here, where they don’t have poker and they have machine shuffling for blackjack, I could stay there day and night for one week loosing no more than 20 euros, if not less than 5 euros. I may bet here and there for excitement and discovery, but won’t be gambling compulsively.
I think I have more of a decision to make than “healing” my gambling addiction.