Topic: Possible measures to stop online gambling addiction. - page 5. (Read 4528 times)

But when anyone is addicted then there is almost no way to be self-aware. It is something like addiction. I have seen a lot of people who can't stop even though they are ready to do any type of evil to gather money and then re-invest in gambling—I have EVen seen several people go to prison cells.

Self-awareness is very important because if we feel that we are in too deep when gambling then at that time we should stop gambling slowly or use fewer bets, I know it is difficult to detect that because most of what happens is that addicts never realize that they I've started to become addicted, to be honest, I don't even feel self-conscious like that, but usually after experiencing a series of defeats I will realize that I have crossed the limit.

Gambling addiction is indeed difficult to cure, therefore all gamblers must always be careful when gambling, apart from that, the importance of limiting each budget and time for gambling also really helps reduce bad habits when gambling, as much as possible, never use professional services, it's best to start with yourself. to limit gambling so that you don't get too deep and become addicted to gambling.

Stopping a bad habit should take a gradual process,  if it is muscled like you illustrated here, the possibility of that same person going back to it and becoming even worse than before is high. Addiction to gambling should be regulated progressively until it can come to a halt. The first step is to have a gambling budget and discipline yourself not to exceed that budget. Secondly, you'll should have a gambling time table and not indulge in it daily, have duration you are expected to gamble on the days it falls into the plan, so for example, if you were gambling for 10 hours a day, you can start by reducing the budget to 10% of your earnings and the time to 3 hours daily, you also need to find a new hobby to replace the gambling. This new good hobby will now be your new addiction instead of the gambling. It might be reading, learning a skill, a new career, new job e.t.c.  After two weeks of keeping to that discipline strictly, you can further reduce the days to 5 days and week, then 4 days and gradually, you'll see that you only gamble once again week and if you can maintain 3hrs and day, once again week for three months, you'll see that the drive for gambling in yourself lifestyle must have seriously reduced, if not vanished and you would start living and new and better life. The new hobby you've trained yourself to get addicted to all these while will replace gambling for you and you're are advised to improve consistently on it, lest idle times can make your prone to going back to your rejected old life of gambling addiction.

So, in a nutshell, gambling addiction can best be stopped by introducing a new, good addiction to substitute the gambling addiction. the progressive transition process will gently direct your mind to focus more on the new habit and devout the same energy which you formerly deposited into gambling to the new found addiction. This new hobby will in turn straighten your life and free you from the uselessness of gambling addiction. You don't just take something away, you replace it with something better.

The thing is that it is not all about disengaging once browsers from the gambling ADs that that is the major thing but the personal disciplines and the readiness to either limit or quits gambling.
Denying ADs from your browser may booster your energy to bet on your usual and acquitted sites because ADs are also to introduce you to other unfamiliar sites which could  broaden your rate of gambling.
So orderly, I agree with you at OP. I also created a thread not about two weeks now concerning how numerous ADs has been pupping up on by browsers which I have been ignoring but decided to give one a try on that day. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.63222507.

So I don't think I would have engaged on that in the first place if not for the ADs. Hence I would say I loosed all my bets out of the gambling budgets portfolio on that very site and I regretted it all because I felt I would had sticked to the ones I know.

Ads too are a must stop if one is willing to stop addiction within their strength. I see no reasons why an addict willing to stop gambling would not take this measures as proposed to see how far they can go in trying to stop the rate at which they gamble. Of lately, a member here built a website with the goal of helping addicted gamblers to stop their gambling lifestyle.  That was a good move by the member and the website is very much helpful and educative to anyone interested in it.

In combating gambling addiction, everything required to achieve the purpose should not be left out and that includes the points stated. A whole lot has to be in sync to help successfully keep an addict off the space but when those features are put together, and because it is almost impossible for one to exist without surfing the internet, and in these days of AI where ads are tailored to your frequently visited niche, you get ads popup pertaining to gambling sites and casions, all other efforts will prove futile in their pursuit.

I concurr with OP's suggestion.

We have ways to stop online gambling, the problem is here is that, most of us are not ready to handle the truth, we still leave in a lie which will definitely led us astray and when that day finally comes, I know the vast majority of gamblers that are my colleagues, some might survived while some will be liquidated with the heavy sums in their accounts. We just have to do what's important and beneficial for ourselves. There's nothing more important than finding other means of income because that tends to be the only way to increase in earnings.

Hardly a person who is addicted can admit that they are addicted, in most cases things always reach a level where the addict starts stealing and committing other more serious crimes in which, because they are serious crimes, he gets into big trouble with the police. and as a result, family members find out that he is committing those crimes because he takes money to gamble and it doesn't take long for them to discover that he is sick, he is addicted, but it takes a long time for them to get treatment, especially if he has problems with the law.

the court takes time to hire a doctor and carry out tests to prove that he is really sick and admit him to a hospital so that he can be treated, as a result of which the relatives start to bear all the hospital bills and it is the relatives who they pay, also if the addict has minor children, relatives take care of the minor children. Without a doubt, it is a very difficult situation to deal with, I say this because I see many cases of addiction and as the families of addicts suffer a lot, fights in the family become intense because of the addict. Here in my neighborhood I see a lot of alcohol addicts, no matter how much they deny it, and it's something very obvious because they are consuming alcohol every day and can't stop it. These are young people who are destroying their families

By doing these alternative activities, our brain will compile a new list of what we have to do every day and not just do gambling. Perhaps at first, we still need to get used to this new activity, so perhaps we will still be gambling. But as the things we do increase and we start to get busy with these activities, our brain reorganizes what we have to do every day.

And after doing more activities, we will see that we are able to reduce our gambling activities by diverting our brain's attention. This allows us to organize what we need to do in order to reduce gambling activities that we may have been doing for a long time. And this new activity also makes us feel that we have found something that can keep us busy and not just think about gambling. Perhaps in the future, we will be completely free from thinking about gambling so that we can consider and treat gambling as entertainment.

I don't really understand what you're saying, one of the reasons and causes they can get into addiction is because they can't control themselves in their gambling involvement, so I think it might be too late to suggest some restrictions to them although basically it's good but as we know that some suggestions most likely won't have much effect if the person is already in the addiction phase because they have the wrong mindset.

I think it's quite difficult to stop them if they are already in the addiction phase because it's quite late, and also yes some other actions might not be very useful like you said by blocking the browsing settings for some sites, everything will be useless if their mindset remains wrong by always holding a lot of hope in gambling. So what is more likely to be able to change them in my opinion is that they are just waiting for time, because usually they will be able to realize if they have experienced a downturn that really traumatizes them, I think that is more likely.

Self discipline and control would be always the key on which this would really be something that relevant on the time that you do able to decide on getting in or having involvement with gambling.
You should be needing yourself to be that responsible if you dont really like on suffering financial problems with gambling just because you do make yourself that too impulsive towards it.
Gambling isnt bad as long you are really  that wary about your actions because people do usually mess up on the time that they would be expecting something more with gambling.
It is for fun but people do go into far extent on which this causes for them to blow up.

Dont let yourself go into a point that addiction would hit you because on the time that it would do so then getting out would be that already hard, this is why
you should really be watchful about your actions and be always that responsible because if you dont then you do know on whats next.

Recognizing the difficulties of gambling addiction is important. My advice is try lowering your bets slowly and finding other ways to earn money. It's helpful to separate gambling for fun from using it as a main income.

This can help break the addiction cycle. Don't forget, getting professional help is a good step towards recovery from this addiction.

True, and that control is better if it's done from the beginning when the person is starting their gambling career because you can't have control once the things get out of hand.

Some gamblers might do that if they get too addicted to gambling and lose everything they have which is when they might start looking for ways that they can use to get some money so that they can continue gambling and if they don't see any right way, they might think of evil ways of gaining money which will lead them to punishable crimes.

That's the thing, people often get addicted to gambling when they don't have a proper source of income and they think that they can earn a living through gambling but it turns out to be different than they might have expected and instead of earning money, they start losing money in it.

Yeah and with alternative activities we will be able to divert our attentions, and that's very important in terms of changing the direction of your daily activities, once you already overcome that pollution inside you, things that gambling occupied inside your brain, it will be a good start or a fresh start to make things better.

Either you can refresh yourself and find that place inside you where there's no involvement into any gambling related industry or you will be refresh and find that wisdom that gambling is only for entertainment and you will learn how to adopt and adjust to limit both your money and time to spend for it.

Gambling addiction can be worse if it can't be controlled. Otherwise people may involve with illegal activities to manage gambling fund while they out money and so on. It don't be so easy you told. It needs time to get solved. Blocking websites from browse setting won't help anyone stop from gambling, when they highly feel addiction. Rather first they need to lower the amount during bet and need to keep low money on gambling websites. Thus they can lower the staking slowly and focus/create main source of income. And start using 5-10% of their extra money and make it for entertainment, not for main source of earning. If they have main source, then no need to addict with gambling for money but they can gambler for entertainment and Fun IMHO

By doing other activities, we can prevent from thinking about gambling so that we can slowly reduce gambling activities or even reduce the level of gambling addiction. It will provide visible changes when we are increasingly involved in other physical activities so that we will experience new pleasures and interests different from those we experience in gambling. We can also start to think clearly that some activities are more useful than gambling, and the best part is that most physical activities don't use too much money, so we can save money for other things. That will allow us to start reducing gambling activities, and it will help us to start changing in a better direction.

Both are true, if there's a problem inside and the person is not willing to share then most of the time the outcome can be worse compared to sharing the problem and allow someone to help and guide to what possible solution to take over, though we are not the same in some ways but it's important to give out something that your brain can't handle anymore.

In terms of help, I also agree that if there's already someone who tried to provide that help and you just ignore or not doing something to help yourself, there's no way to solve your issue and it will turn them away.

It depends on the way this person carries their addiction, if they are the secretive type then this may work out as no one could have realized they have a problem, and letting others know about it could be the first and most important step towards their recovery.

However if everyone has known this was the case and tried to help this person for years then such a confession may not have any effect, because it is entirely possible many of those former friends and family members could have given up on them long ago and they are not willing to help them anymore.

One measure would be asking for help from the people around you, that is going to be hard but not really going to be something that should be all that difficult when you get it out first time. After you tell it just once, and if you tell it to just a single person, the rest will be easier. Hard part is to tell that to the first person, because telling that first person could be something gut wrenching but you are going to end up doing a lot better and could be fine in the end.

I hope that people could realize that if they seek for help, then they will easily be able to stop, and in the end you are going to be required to realize that you have an addiction, a problem, before you could try to seek for help as well, which is the most difficult part.

The gambling will give the new boost to your brain,So you can enjoy the every gambling wins.If the gambler want to stop the gambling,he should reduce the game to the gambling sites.The changing mind from the gambling was te important factor for this.The gamblers who get addicted can’t be safe side.Because of the more addiction to the game,the gambler will do the continuous deposit to the game.The continuous deposit will not work to the gambler and may leads to the loss by the emotion.It’s better to hold till the luck favours you in the gambling.