Hi Calvin,
So finally went for that drive and it was awesome

FREEDOM!!!
So my biggest tip for those starting this journey would be to give up access to quick cash. This step absolutely helped me with my urges when they hit and hit they did. In the first month or so I was being bombarded with urges to gamble. You know that little voice in that back of your head that just won't shut up, nudging you to "come on go just this once" "come on just put $20 though it's all good" "go on you can just go once" LIES so many LIES. My brain was lying to me and I couldn't trust it any more.
But I could trust my Mum, so she got my bank card and I got $20 for emergencies. Want groceries? went shopping with mum, need petrol? took mum to the petrol station. If I wanted a dvd or clothes I would get Mum to give me the exact cash I needed not a penny more. I could still pay my bills using internet banking so that was fine, cause you know we all love those bills

but at least I could pay them without having to go to mum and ask to put them on her credit card and lie to her face about where all my money went. Here I was a 35 year old woman and I had no control over my own finances. This is what my life had come to, this is what I had allowed gambling to do to me. Thank god for my mother, she took my card and stood firm, she was my rock and she was one of my biggest supporters. I couldn't let her or my dad down again, this was my chance, this was my path back to living my life with out gambling being a part of it. Slowly I regained my confidence in being able to manage my own finances, it was scary, it was hard to trust myself again but the more distance I got from gambling the more my confidence grew. If I thought I would be tempted, mum got the card back. For example the first new years eve I faced gamble free, I knew I would be tempted because it was an annual gambling binge so mum got the card. The first holidays I had since being gamble free, mum got the card because I knew I would get bored (a big trigger for me) this also forced me to find other activities to fill that time.
Quick access to cash is just a convenience for most people but for a gambler it is a huge problem. Urge hits, get cash, loose cash, feel crap. That was the cycle I was in. By giving up access to quick cash the cycle changed. Urge hits, can't get quick cash, what now?, do I wanna go get cash?, how long will that take?, why do I want to gamble?, what will happen if I do? Urge is gone, feel awesome for not giving in, one more day of being gamble free
I also remember this one piece of advice that someone on this forum much smarter than myself

gave me soon after I started my journey and that was -
"Don't say I will never gamble again" this just seems impossible and kinda scary "Simply say, I will not gamble today" very achievable and before you know it one day turns into 2, 2 days turns into a week and then a month and then a year. Just keep stringing those days together.
Stay strong guys, we all deserve a gamble free future.
JinxyWolf