Topic: Low cost but effective solutions to gambling addiction - page 13. (Read 3551 times)

We have to be able to find other things that can prevent us from feeling lonely by looking for something busy doing activities other than gambling and doing it all day and every day so that we don't think about gambling. By having other activities, we will focus on doing those activities and will not think about gambling. Yes, we are social creatures so we need to meet other people so we can interact and do something that can divert our attention from gambling. If we start to get used to this activity, slowly we will be able to divert our attention to gambling completely and will not depend on gambling to get pleasure.

Gathering with new friends who can give us ideas for things to do can help us find activities that we can do. And they will also support us if we really want to stay away from gambling.

It's true what you say, not all families give advice that is not accepted by gamblers. But, this is looking at real cases around me, some of the gamblers refuse to accept any advice. his son, wives, brother and other family already give a good advice to stop gambling, but in the end, prison is the place to stop gambling for some of them. because some are known to be criminals. That's why I say, if gambler don't have own money, he won't be able to gamble. However, this must be done by the gambler himself. If the family asks, I'm sure there will be problems between the gambler and his family, considering that gamblers who have lost a lot will tend to get emotional easily. Or limited money for him to gamble may can be an alternative just to controlled him.

Diversion is indeed one way to tone down  gambling addiction but I think work addiction is the same as bad as gambling addiction.  It can even deteriorate our body more faster since we work ourselves to exhaustion.  I believe it is wise to make our diversion still under our control and if we make work as substitute to gambling activities, we should make sure that have enough relaxation for our body to recuperate else we will find ourselves in trouble.


People who are unable to control themselves and is in need of guidance to fix their activities.  It is quite easy for a non-addicted player to say since they are not really get deeply addicted into something.  Being slightly addicted is way different than deeply addicted to gambling since the first one still have some sanity, while the latter one is fully hooked on gambling and is in need of outside help to fix his problem.

It is a very brilliant idea because when you busy you will even hardly even have time for your self then talk more of even having time to gamble, you will be so tired and the only time you have you will want to rest. And whole point is for helping addiction and the person should be more responsible. You should be a therapist you have one of the best ways to solve the issue of addiction.  All the recommendations you given it will help in taking your mind away from gambling especially work and spending time. With this you don't need a therapy you just need to keep your self engaged and without knowing your mind will no longer want to gamble because you always busy. I will even recommend this to people in my own region.

Honestly I would not say that the role of the family would be useless in the matter of helping the person to solve his addiction problem, but usually the gambler will be more respectful of some advice from a person who is quite important in his life such as one of his family or his partner, but on the other hand if indeed the role of some of the closest people has no effect on them honestly I make sure it seems that they are already at a very severe level of addiction that will not be cured if only by throwing a few suggestions. Gambling is never done if there is no money allocated and your suggestion is quite reasonable in this case, it is true that if the family cannot help them with some suggestions then I think one of the parents or family members should take over their finances, do not let them have money in their pocket because obviously gambling is the main thing they will choose with that money.

This should be quite effective, and I think the person in control of the finances should be able to limit if they want to give money to people with addiction problems, give only a little and only for purposes that are reasonable enough to believe.

There are a few catches though. You must not cannot be lonely when trying to get out of gambling addiction. No matter what you must make sure that you are not alone. Everything I, you and the others said would be in vain, if we were left alone. Even when we are trying to keep ourselves busy, we will think of gambling throughout the whole day. We are a social being. To be able to truly keep ourselves busy, we need a person to help us. Only then we might be able to get out this.

Things like these happened with me. I know it's bad for me and my health. But despite knowing that I couldn't stop my gambling addiction. Only when my family and my friends supported me I was able to.

Maybe few of us have ever won the jackpot because it really requires a lot of luck, especially in gambling, where losses can occur more often than wins. We can experience a serious gambling addiction if we are not careful when gambling, especially since we have seen several people who are addicted to gambling.

Keeping ourselves busy would be a low-cost solution because if we could do many things all day and every day, we could forget about gambling and would not think about gambling as much as before. We will only focus on the things we do so that we can reduce gambling activities from doing these things. So it is a kind of distraction that we have to do so that we will be free from thinking about gambling and just do what we have to do.

This is mostly true, but in the sense of making the decision. The gambler needs to make the decision themselves.

But having a supporting social network around the addictive person helps a lot. Not saying that their family/friends has to make them quit, but instead their family/friends are there with them doing different activities, just going for a walk, etc.

Social bonds are incredibly powerful, and being by yourself is very dangerous.

most families can't do anything. Advising is useless if he still handles the finances himself. If someone want to find a solution when any advice and threaphy doesn't works, the only thing is not to save his own money. It may be difficult, but entrusting money to someone who can trust can help overcome gambling addiction problems. For example, if the gambler trusts his wife, then he can entrust all his money to her. As long as there is clear accounting of expenses, everything should be controlled. Or by the parents, because the role of parents in saving their children's money is also very good, especially mothers. assuming, his wife and parents are not gambling addicts either.

Acknowledgment is important, indeed. A person who is addicted to gambling but doesn't admit it or accept the fact that they are addicted and are spending all their time and money on it will hardly be able to get any help because they are not ready to accept any help even if someone wants to help them. So the first step for an addicted gambler should be to accept that they are addicted and they are facing problems because of it so that they can get help for it.

The family or even a close friend can help them get away from their addiction once they admit it and become ready to accept the challenge. If you are addicted to gambling but aren't allowing anyone to get you out of it, you will barely be able to do it yourself because the urge won't let you.

Gambling addiction can lead you to bankruptcy and even commit crimes.
If you answer yes to all the questions, seek help.

1- can't you stop?
2- Do you have debts and large losses of money due to this?
3- Have you stopped buying any item that you deserve because of this?
4- Have you thought about selling things to satisfy this need?
5- Even in free time, do you still think about this?

tips:

Go for a walk, go to the gym, exercising helps you forget addictions.
Think about everything you would buy with the money you lose each year.
If it is money that motivates your addiction, donate a little to a charity, if you manage to do so you will be taking a giant step in your improvement, because it means that you stopped playing to help.

Avoid situations that cause you anxiety or stress.
Set a limit, if you lose it it means it's time to stop.
Talk to your family for advice.

The easiest, simplest and free method to get rid of gambling addiction is to gain awareness and chat about this addiction with close friends or family. Yes, it is very difficult to get rid of gambling addiction but realizing that a person constantly loses money in gambling and that his/her psychology is negatively affected by this situation is a very serious factor in getting rid of this addiction. In addition, chatting with a close friend or family member about this addiction will be a free therapy and will help the gambling addicted individual gamble less and get rid of this addiction if the person chatting with isn't addicted to gambling.

On the other hand, if a gambling addict loses money in gambling, thinking about the activities he/she can do or the products and services he/she can buy with this money is a factor that can help reduce gambling addiction even though it is a small factor. The reason for this is due to the regret that occurs after individuals who are addicted to gambling postpone purchasing some of their needs in order to gamble more.

In summary, I think that if an individual addicted to gambling gains awareness, chats with close friends or family members about this addiction and thinks about what he/she can do with the money he/she loses in gambling, his/her gambling addiction will gradually decrease and after a certain period of time he/she will completely eliminate it.

Wining jackpots is a very rare cases. How many of you know won a jackpot?

Not just gambling addiction but all the addiction that are in the world is the worst. There are low cost solution, in my opinion. You just have to look for it. Keeping oneself busy can be low cost solution, spending time with your loved one can be low cost solution, hanging out with friends can be low cost solution, following religious belief can be low cost solution.

My point is anything that can help us distract our mind from gambling and focus on life can be considered low cost solution.

Low cost solutions to gambling addictions???
The gambling addiction is not a low cost addiction, as people lose tons of money through addiction to gambling but how can we think that the cure to this addiction will be low cost ?

I think whatever you do in order to escape from gambling addiction, will have a cost and in some cases, you have to involve yourself in such activities where you have to spend much in order to get entertained and at the same time there is no chance of earning money. (By the way, Gambling addicts had an advantage that in a few cases the addicted person may earn a jackpot or a big win while having his gambling desires fulfilled)

When we say "addict" we cannot control ourselves from doing something. And the side effects is that we are going to find ways to have funds either in good or bad  just to fullfil the urge to gamble. So the question is that, what is the most effective and low cost solutions to gambling addiction? Well, actually there are some but it is up on us on how we dealt with addiction. But IMO I am okay with movies, foodies, mobile games, talking with friends and family bonding. I don't know about you but that is how I resolve mine just having time to divert into different things other than gambling. 😁

I agree with your advice, it is true and I have proven it myself, to be honest I am also one of the active gamblers who never missed gambling every day and do you know what I felt in that condition? To be honest, there was a lot of pressure in everything I experienced, starting from mental pressure and financial problems that kept arising, I'm not sure everyone can get through conditions like that, and when I tried the exact advice you said by keeping myself busy with other activities from there I began to realize that this was a good way because honestly when I have a lot of activities indirectly my mind becomes distracted, only a little I remember about gambling and over time I got used to it and finally now my interest in gambling has diminished.

Not only that, I'm sure there are still many simple but effective ways to help you get out of addiction, like you said by playing a lot with your friends in the neighborhood, that's also pretty good and I think it doesn't hurt for you to try some simple things like this but with a success rate that I think is quite high. So the point is it's actually quite easy to overcome this problem as long as you are willing and have a strong intention, there will definitely be a way out.

The best therapy is to keep yourself busy with work throughout the day. That would fix most of the gambling addiction. I used to gamble a lot, a lot. But now that I'm so drowned in work, I can't even get time to login to my gambling platform. Working all day can be very tiring. Another thing one could do to control their gambling addiction Spend more time with friends and family, go out, hang out with friends, go to movies, parks, or beaches. There are so many things to do. Don't you think? Who needs to go to therapy and spend money? I dont.

There are establishments offering this kind of treatment for the people who cant afford even in other countries they are offering this as free that's the service offered by the government but depends on the process it takes some countries a lot of paper to consider for the requirement to acquire this kind of free checkup and treatment, some country accepting even just a walk in well depends reason why its a good investment into a country if they are prioritizing focus into health so people know that their country really care with them. Currently, I know the good service related to health is the country of Canada currently my country does not focus in this state of concerns feels bad.

Some people will not listen to there family that's why some people create a huge conflict with some of their family members since they don't want to get disturb on what they do since there opinion or like what matter the most. If we encounter this issue to one of our family member or even us then its time for the head of family to step up and put the affected person in rehab since this is the most effective solution to stop addiction. Any other cheaper advice will not really work since as long as gambling sites is easy to access for sure those people suffering from this will always find ways to gamble. We should endure the sad feeling for dropping such decision and we should think about that putting those guys on rehab is good for them since they will be a changed man once they have done with their rehabilitation process.

Along with the help of the family good treatment of gambling addiction will help you regain control over yourself. Along with that there will be an opportunity to recover lost respect money social establishment profession. By reducing your uncontrollable needs it will help to bring them under control it will also help to replace negative thoughts with positive ones therapy can be helpful for controlling anger mood. It actively works with helping to promote a safe and controlled environment for users It also provides information to help people make decisions about their gambling