How is it possible to not be stuck

How is it possible to not be stuck when we feel stuck, yeah all the self-help articles say 'just change' easy for them to say!!!    But how?
That is where I am stuck in life right now.  Feel like I can't go back, and can't move forward. STUCK!!
I know in my heart this is just a microsecond in the universal time period, to me it feels like a lifetime. 
Feels like I will be here doing the same thing for the rest of my life!  Struggling and struggling to get ahead and if I spend an extra ten dollars it always costs me more.  So I gamble!
Nope doesn't help anything, just makes me feel worse. Not at the time but afterward! Kind of like drinking and having a bad hangover.  I know it will happen, I know if I don't drink I will not have a hang over, but I would do it anyway.
Same with gambling! I know ultimately I will loose, but do it anyway.  Now I need to raise five hundred dollars in a week and have no idea how to do that....
I work at my Ebay items, http://myworld.ebay.com/spovio/  and my
Etsy items https://www.etsy.com/shop/Suestreasures2012?ref=si_shop  hoping I will sell something, but , no, I did not.  I work at this blogging thing and it shows no actual benefit for anything.  How people make money at it is beyond me.  I know gambling is not the answer, and I know it only makes me feel worse after, but for the time I am in the casino I forget how stuck in life I am!!!  I forget how hard I struggle to make ends meet. I forget how alone I feel, not lonely cause I can spend eons of time alone.  I don't think about anything but the spin of the wheels on the slot machines. And it feels ok in the beginning, But!
When it is time to leave I know I have lost too much and don't know how I will ever replace it. I think about a second job, however, my full time job hours are crazy, and I am not sure anyone would work around them.
I also think part of the gambling habit is just that a habit. I like smoking and not really wanting to quit.  Maybe I need to move someplace where there are no casino's.  But where in the world is a place where there are no casino's within driving distances?