Topic: Possible measures to stop online gambling addiction. - page 17. (Read 4528 times)

Or just make yourself busy so that you won't think of playing online. Sometimes I just phone my phone on the other room, not beside me so that I won't think of depositing and playing. Although I have my laptop to play, I prefer my games though using my phone.

No sure why is this so, but I guess because I can even play when I was lying down in my bed and obviously I can't do that with my laptop. So just to minimized my online gambling, I put my phone away from me. I don't bother someone calling me and not answering it. I can just check it back someone from the other room like my kids calling me if they see that my phone is ringing.

Many of us recommend changing places occasionally to curb gambling. But if the gambler goes to the same place and does the same work in online then there is no point in changing the place. Similarly, if a gambler shares his gambling with other family members, he will get a lot of support from the family. But the biggest thing that works for this is personal awareness. If the gambler can do deep research about gambling and gets a good idea about it then he can definitely control himself. But many people can not control their emotion and for them pressure from family can help them from addiction.

Though we shouldn't say things or give advice to people that we don't follow ourselves, a lot of people still do it. I've seen it countless times where a person tells me not to do a specific thing and I later find them doing it themselves, and upon asking, they become ashamed but still turn the topic or make an excuse since now it's on them. I never do that myself, when I see someone is doing something that I do myself even though it's not good, I don't stop them because I will be wrong in doing that.

I do the same about gambling or anything that is addictive when I know that I do it as well, I don't have any right to tell someone else not to do it, but when I know that I'm not addicted to gambling and there are ways that I know can make someone stay safe from getting addicted, that's when I go ahead and give the suggestions.

So you think that deleting cookies and restarting your devices will make Big Tech stop bothering you, huh? Those are just the most obvious answers. If you look deeper, you'll see that the monitoring is about a lot more than just a cookie. Google and Facebook do keep track of everything you do and click on. Still, you're right that gambling ads are everywhere. They're like vultures looking for a meal. Yes, TV, radio, and newspapers are all involved and part of the machine.

But the real challenge isn't avoiding ads; it's figuring out how the gambling business works behind the scenes. This is more than just a game. It's a planned way to take advantage of people who are weak. But sure, they say, "it's just an ad." Remember that each ad is a part of their bigger plan 

For Google, when I clear my browser's cookies and history, I won't get an ad anymore related to what I previously searched. We can also hard reset our gadgets if that didn't work. For Facebook, maybe there is a settings about how we see an ad or related to our activity. There should be an option of clearing them and that should be able to fix things, however there is no way to completely stop seeing gambling contents.

Even if you say to quit being online, you can still see them one day on the TV, radio, newspapers, etc... It was only an ad anyway. It shouldn't be totally tempting than if you are already inside the casino, so we shouldn't worry too much.

Isnt it like that when comes to most things in life, by the way?
It is always easier to say things than making them happen, regardless there is gambling involved or not; and of course when an addiction (behavioral or chemical) is involved in the things we want to change, then the difficulty escalates up to the ceiling.

I have never personally suffered from addiction to gambling, but I have felt hooked up and tempted to chase loses, but I managed to control myself. I cannot imagine how harmful lack of self control can be to those who do not realize they are committing a big mistake by chasing loses eternally. 

You are right those who are addicted to gambling are experienced with the risk and those people (me too) can't stop gambling but it is easy to tell everyone about the way of stopping gambling before making it as addiction. We can say easily anything but we can't do that easily.

The gamblers take gambling addiction serious,they start to advice their co-gamblers to stop the gambling addiction.But if the gambling addiction person play the gambling in the control deposit,it’s enough and no need to stop the gambling addiction.The gambling addicts should reduce their time using in the gambling was essential one.So the gamblers will easily get away from the gambling addiction.

Addiction meaning that you do a activity on abusive manner and that is so wrong. Since this can create a problem not only on yourself but also with people around you.

But if you think you are still doing good on your gambling activity then you are doing a great job, but for other they should think about the consequences of getting into this situation since any excessive act is truly bad to anyone. But its your belief about there's no problem with that and I respect your opinion.

sometimes people take this addiction problem too seriously. I mean addiction is not as bad or not as difficult as we imagine, it just takes time and realizing yourself not to keep betting to avoid gambling addiction.
someone who sometimes gambles without having signs of addiction, in the end when they feel comfortable with the game someone will turn into a compulsive gambler and this must be realized from the start that the way gambling works is to provide entertainment facilities without having to come every day and we also have to understand the bad things gamble in the long term if you bet on gambling every day.

IMO, even if someone is in a gambling business environment or lives in a country where gambling is legal, it will not be a problem as long as they have awareness of how to use gambling properly without having to continue betting every day which results in addiction.

Someone's situation that deals with other problems will trigger his own desire to put that pressure on something else like gambling. That's why prevention is hard to do when you're also dealing with other things. And having that will to stop starts from you, you just can't say that in words but you need to prove that to yourself and show it that you're doing the right actions for your own ways of stopping it.

Not just from phones but also from other devices, desktop/laptop, or any device where you'll be able to gain access to any online casino. Just do other things so your attention will be divided and that will be one way for you to at least do something to stop.

If you want to stop gambling addiction, the first step you must take is to tell the people closest to you, such as your family or wife, about your situation. They will give you control to avoid gambling, whether online gambling or land casinos. If that's not enough, then limit yourself from accessing deposits on gambling sites, maybe you need to delete mobile banking and empty all crypto assets so that when the urge to gamble arises you don't have access to deposits on gambling sites. It does take hard work and determination to stop gambling addiction, but it is not impossible, it is better to stop before you lose everything

The government can only control legal casinos that have registered with them so that the government can monitor them more closely. There may be methods that the government will use to monitor illegal casinos and we don't know what they are. But with reports from many users about casinos that are suspected to be illegal, the government is investigating them and finding out whether the casinos are illegal or are processing their legality with one regulator.

But people must understand that they are responsible for gambling or want to stop their addiction, which has nothing to do with where they play. He can play in legal or illegal casinos but still control himself not to gamble excessively. But if he gambles in an illegal casino, he must be careful because the government could investigate his casino and he could also be trapped and arrested. So, someone should avoid gambling in illegal casinos because now many legal casinos are safer for gambling.

Governments play a game of whack-a-mole with criminals, it is true that since the demand for gambling games is very high, not only legal casinos have appeared but illegal ones as well, and while governments cannot stop the appearance of those illegal casinos, what they can do is to detain the persons behind an illegal casino in particular.

And once they do they can accuse them of a multitude of crimes, as establishing such an operation is a complex and expensive endeavor and the persons behind it can spend a great deal of time behind bars because of it.

You are right, one of the things that we cannot fight is against the online ads that appear on the web or anywhere, even on TV there are Always casino ads that are Fiat Style but they are ads on Tv , so everything It may be that it Influences him to gamble, and these things we cannot go against the tide, the first thing that can be done when a person is addicted is to go to a help center, or a psychologist, is the most Important thing , without a Person Who does not do it Particularly can aggravate the situation. I am in favor of the fact that when there are signs of addiction in the game, that problem must be treated once in a While to prevent the person from falling into total ruin, not only of their financial status. It's not about Your life in general , because First you are Risking your Well-being And you are putting many things at risk, cif the person has a Family , then it is All in one Row that is Going to Suffer , those are the things that can happen , However we are People Thinking men , we know that a psychologist is not an indication that it is a failure , or that a person is unwell, we know that it is necessary to help get out of something that could be serious, it is like that illness that if diagnosed in time can be attacked and cure Once and for all , there is no option but to be able to have the best event.

Now, the person who is like this with that problem has to do his part, because otherwise things can get Complicated , there are people who refuse to Believe that they have that Problem and do Not get going, they continue their normal life while they leave Damaging little by little by maintaining a Status that Everything is fine, when in Reality it is not , So all that series of things are what we as people must do to avoid any type of problems in our life, generally When a person If the procedure refuses to take effect , a good group of friends can make a difference by urging this person to follow the Appropriate helpful Treatments.

Want to get rid of gambling as demand is at a point where it is difficult to refrain from. In addition to these the way to prevent gambling addiction will depend on the person's own wishes. If there is any other emotional stress problem or big event beyond the gambling, it should also be well analyzed. Whenever you want to gambling online, you will work away from the phone. You can go somewhere for a few days or go to relatives' house the last thing is to stay away from the phone so that the gambling will return to normal.

No one can stop those illegal casinos. As more and more people get caught on this, the more cautious and smart they are to not get caught. They are unstoppable because of the profit they are getting on it and also because there are a lot of people wanting to gamble, which means they can't really put it down because the demand is everywhere and that is money. Unless the government is really strict and closely monitors it, they won't be doing anything aside from checking those illegal casinos which is impossible as they have other things to do.

One of the reasons why the government is closing this kind of operation is because of the tax they arent getting any and also because they can't control the illegally operated casinos because they can't see them.

Maybe it is an impossible task but we can try. We can try to block it from the browser we use, and there are applications we can use to block advertisements we don't want. But we may have difficulty doing it even though we have tried our best. We can only report it to the service provider so they will block it if they feel it is disturbing their consumers.

As long as we can control ourselves, we can still gamble as usual and the advertisements that appear on various sites will not bother us too much. This is because we can protect ourselves from such disturbances so we will not be tempted to try them. So this depends on how we can resist the temptation of seeing these advertisements and we must continue to be able to do so.

It is true that if someone is addicted to something, such as gambling, drugs, or even alcohol, it is difficult. Only their own beliefs and desires will stop this behavior, if only with advice from other people or their own family they will not necessarily want to stop.
If someone is addicted to gambling even though they have no money, then they will try their best to get money so they can gamble even in the wrong way, even though they will suffer the consequences if they don't control it.
I agree with you that when we are going to gamble we should really consider everything carefully so that things don't happen that are detrimental to us or our families.

Blocking all the advertising related to casinos while you are online seems like an impossible task, we must not forget that companies like Google or Facebook track your activity online, and if you have shown on the past a great deal of interest on gambling you can be sure they are going to serve you those ads hoping you click on them.

And while there is nothing wrong with that when you are a regular gambler, if you want to leave gambling behind each ad that you see will tempt you to go back to your old ways, and given enough time it will happen.