Topic: Possible measures to stop online gambling addiction. - page 18. (Read 4502 times)

But the fact is that they can't really control themselves when gambling, most of them get carried away by continuing to gamble without a break, even though gambling should be used as something fun, not as a source of income, that's clearly a big mistake and there are still many gamblers who expect that is their source of income but in fact they end up becoming addicts.

It's true what you say, online casinos are not bad if you use them correctly and play wisely because of course it would be fun if you knew that gambling is just for fun. For example, when we lose, let's just say we paid something for something that was fun for us, so no will make us feel disappointed, apart from that, gambling must also be able to limit the budget because it is important that we can get an alarm for ourselves to stop when the budget limit is exhausted. The point is, don't gamble if you can't control yourself 

But we as users can prevent ourselves from experiencing fraud and one of them is looking for casino sites on this forum. It would be better than searching for casinos that are out there, especially from search engines. And if we really want to stop gambling or reduce our gambling addiction, we must continue to try to avoid seeing advertisements that will appear when we are online. Maybe we can limit ourselves to browsing the internet and activate the features in our browsers or social media so that we don't see casino advertisements. It is true that the government will find it difficult to block these new and old casinos, but we must try not to just rely on the government. We must be responsible for what we do and if that means we really want to stop gambling, we must be able to avoid everything related to gambling and have an activity to divert our attention from gambling.

Online or not, gambling can only be limited based on individual decisions and those of the casino, but it can't be entirely stopped. It's always easy to start something, but stopping it is always very hard to do. This is not just something with gambling; it's the same in every aspect of life.
 
Online casinos can't be stopped, not even with government intervention. Most of these online casinos don't even need regulation to function; what they just need are active customers who are ready to start their business. So how can the government give others the power to stop something that is not under their watch? And even if they give a permanent ban warrant to their citizens, what happens to VPN? People will still use VPNs to access online gambling sites and make sure their pleasure is satisfied.
 
Okay, let's also assume that the government succeeds in limiting users access to casinos. What will they do with physical gamblers? Let's not forget the fact that before the online casino started, gambling was already far from existing, which is where the idea of taking everything digital and making it less violent comes in, so if you are talking about stopping online casinos, we should also consider where it comes from.
 

Even the government can find the online casino that operated illegally, it's not entirely stop the online casino because the new one will comes up and the government has no way to ban every new casino site. Stopping an online casino is like stopping Bitcoin, you can't.

Online casino isn't bad too, as long as the gambler can control themselves and know about money management, they will be fine.

In as much as we are discussing about gambling addiction, there has never been a statement made here to accredited to the removal of online casino or to Stop online gambling. We are only talking about gambling addiction and how to stop being addicted to gambling be it online and offline.

Nobody is talking of removing gambling but chronic gamblers who are looking for a way to stop gambling as they are being addicted to it. So I was thinking of you really understood what this topic was all about it you did not read it at all but to just jump to commenting to fill your post quota.

        -  First of all, what is the reason there was online gambling in this era? My second question to you, mate, is: do you want online gambling to disappear? The answer is that online gambling came about because of the internet that we have, right? Do you think online gambling will still remain when the internet is removed, mate?

My point is that as long as we have the internet, online gambling will not disappear. We will see them again and again, so the online casino cannot be stopped unless it is found by the government to operate illegal online gambling.

If we are to go by the means of quitting gambling entirely, isn't that going to be another means of creating more problem while trying to solve one, the gambler in this case wouldn't want to quit because it's fun, e en if he doesn't have money he may manage to go hungry just to satisfy his gambling desires, why not we make use of a slow and steady means of withdrawal by introducing in another thing we could always get busy on, this will take his time and there will be less money in his disposal to be used in gambling, though all these are what i believe a therapist can handle if allowed.

Most addictions are hard to cure especially those that involve money like alcohol and gambling because the persons that are addicted to it think it is the only thing that can cure their boredom and stress reliever but in reality, it's not because it involves money. When you don't have enough money to fund those hobbies, that's when the problem starts. in order to prevent that from happening, they should consider thinking twice before engaging in gambling because if they cannot handle the heat, it will eventually hurt them.

I agree with you to the fact that getting engaged with activities to keep yourself busy will one way or the other help one in the course of quitting addiction. This will enable you focus your mind or channel your energy to other meaningful thoughts and activities than being idle and thinking of gambling. Sometimes when the thought of it comes up, you do or get engaged with activities which will keep your mind busy with work and development. This will also help one focus on building new energy and gradually doing away with your addiction as time passes.

Consistency is another factor to put into consideration if you must succeed in achieving your goal to quitting addiction. Constant engagement with focus on continuous process results to improvement and better stability. When you are consistent in your exercise to curb your gambling excesses, you will never be distracted no matter the situation.

Yes, it makes a little sense, in fact, if someone wants to quit with a note that they are really serious then they must be willing to do anything to get out of the addiction. It can't be denied that sometimes there are some who say that they want to quit but it's just words and not with any action, I heard that saying from those who just lost and the next day it turned out that they were still gambling again and with a stronger intention to restore the defeat of the last day. And yes, there must be actions that are really based on strong intentions if you really want to stop, don't just say it, I understand that temptation must always come to your mind and well that's what you should be able to avoid. You have to be able to think more clearly in that condition, maybe you think you can win but I think in gambling everyone should not overdo it and I would say "it is better to prevent than to cure" it's a good statement than you are getting worse because of too much ambition. But yeah it's quite difficult, but nothing is impossible and I'm sure you can do it if you really mean it.

Well that's right, it's actually very difficult to quit addiction if we only rely on the desire to quit, not only that, like you said and that means you also have to be able to find other activities that can make you stay away from gambling or forget about it. Like for example looking for other activities that are more positive, like for example adding a part-time job, don't let you have free time because I'm sure in that position you will definitely remember gambling and surely the temptation will come to continue to encourage you to gamble. So yes, the point is that this is a good alternative to choose but you must be able to consistently do it.

I have come to realise that gambling is actually not a one man thing. It involves peers sometimes they go out together to gamble and when they do this virtually they make out time for themselves and most times they do the gambling stuffs amongst themselves in a confined space. What am I trying to say here, when one wants to quit gambling, it is sometimes not all about you taking the decision, you must try let your peers know because you guys have built a relationship in it and definitely you call each other whenever you want to gamble. You will have to let them know that you are taking the decision of quitting gambling so they could stop calling you for gambling exercise because they doing that would keep your thoughts away from gambling and you could focus on your quitting plans made already. Your decision too can as well influence your peers to join you in quitting gambling addiction too if they see your seriousness about it and you recording success in every steps you take to achieve your goal of quitting gambling.
What I am trying to say in essence is in agreement with your first sentence that doing away with peers or things which keeps reminding you of what you have made up your mind to quit matters and if they being so kind, they would support you and in some cases they decide to join you quitting such addiction too.

I gamble with a low frequency and I do not think I am addicted to gambling. However, despite taking every piece of advice, if I had difficulty quitting gambling or reducing the frequency of my gambling, I would seek professional support. Psychologists or psychiatrists can help people with gambling addiction. If people with addiction cannot control themselves, they may experience social, financial and psychological problems. Getting help from professionals can help them get their life back.

Yes just like saying if one of your legs leads you astray you have to cut it off,  same with addictions, to be able to come out of it you have to caught off a lot of things and stay away from them all,  this must be an attitude goh have to abide with,  battling gambling addictions os one of the hardest war to win and it takes a lot of time and energy to be able to you'll out of it ultimately.

Sometimes,  you need the help of other good wishes to be able to win the war,  but with persistent and focus it may take time but surely you will record positive results.

The way of approach to the addiction is based on the individual performance,because the person who involved in the addiction should ready to get away the addiction is the foremost thing.The gambling addict will get addicted by the many reason,but to recover their will be one reason that is the gambling addict may suffer from the addiction will be in the negative manner.

If the gambler achieved in the gambling also help them to get away the gambling addiction.So he possibly to short the addiction with the positive results in the game.Which is you need to win the jackpot using your long way of journey in the gambling and it’s easy to quit the addiction after the big win.

Dealing with addiction is more like just a person who has made up his or her mind to go to the rehab for proper transformation. Before one makes up his or her mind going there one must have to be morally fit to overcome the self satisfaction derived from what they are addicted to. Same is applicable to gamblers. Before you decide to do away with your gambling addiction, you must be morally fit and ready to play along while undergoing the process to transform from being an addicted or chronic gambler. Self discipline matters too because this is what will tell if you are really going to be impacted positively to yourself or not.  

Quitting online gambling addiction is a massive challenge for those who have fallen into it. Most people addicted to gambling may be aware of the consequences that gambling causes, but they seem to have no way to control or resist the temptation of gambling. Determination to quit addiction is necessary and a top priority if gambling addiction treatment is to be effective. It is easy to give up treatment or relapse into gambling after a short period if you continue to live in a gambling environment, so staying away from gambling environments is a must.
I think, In some cases, seeing a psychologist will bring good results for the detoxification process.

The first thing to win addictions is the individual conviction to pull out of it in the first place,  because one of the major challenges that addicts have faced is the fact that many of them haven't made up their minds to exit from their addictions even though is obvious that those activities are negatively affecting them,  this has become the reality with many of them in that category in recent time.

So for that,  I agree that for any positive result to be achieved in combating addictions,  the individual involved must first of all be willing to put an end to the addictions by giving in all his best in support of the fight against addictions.

Before one must adopt this measures or procedures if one  may wish,  one must have made up their mind coupled with discipline so as to achieve their goal in reducing or doing away with gambling addiction. It takes self discipline to achieve this if you must succeed in doing so. Every modalities must be put in place so as to avoid any fall back as that would mean no sign of seriousness to what you have intended. In the case of a chronic gambler, is done gradually or step by step one after the other. You can not just rush to stop all means to gambling but a phase by phase steps which is acknowledged. It would be very dangerous for an addicted gambler to immediately take such decisions but a random gambler can be able to adapt very fast but addicted gambler can not.

Within is definitely the right way to go but you could still get some help about it as well. Psychologists have these kind of returns and I believe that we would end up with a good return based on that, I believe that we are going to end up with a result that is a bit more different. I know that it is going to get a lot of trouble on the long term, but I believe that it is not going to be that easy neither.

I hope that people could see the difference between a professional help and amateur help. If you try to stop it yourself, you could still do it and it has been done but the success rate is much lower, but if you get a professional help that means the success rate is higher, sure maybe it won't work, but it has a higher chance of working.

I think total withdrawal from gambling or access to any of it adverts may trigger up a more resistant tendency for the gambler most especially if their are already deeply sucked in they addictions and to battle to save them from the hold of they addictions will requires are more proactive and lesser procedures to totally swing their mind away from gambling.

A lot of those who turned off automatically without proper arrangement to withdraw from their addictions have long plumed back into their addictions and this time even worse off.