Topic: Quit gamble! Easy or Hard? Let's talk. - page 12. (Read 10419 times)

Yes, you are right because gambling gives people who gamble the opportunity to try to win some money if they are able. And that's what makes many people continue to gamble and don't seem to notice that what they are doing is not right. They should understand that they can gamble but not to chase wins and only to have fun. Once they have had enough of gambling, they must immediately stop gambling and leave the casino because if they still stay there, they could be tempted to continue gambling and that will cause them to experience even more losses. And because casinos make advertisements that say someone can get a big win, it makes people not want to do other activities that can also provide the same pleasure they get in gambling.

Maybe the enjoyment will be different from gambling if they do other activities, but at least they can reduce their losses in gambling. Also, they don't need to use a lot of money to be able to enjoy other activities. If someone really wants to stop gambling, he should start training himself to be able to master good self-control and start reducing his gambling activities by doing other things so that his mind can start to be distracted by other things. This will be useful for creating a new mindset that will not only think about gambling but also think about other things that can also provide pleasure.

Though, even though I agree with you gambling is supposed to only be view as entertainment, the true is there is much more than entertainment and fun in gambling. For example, when someone thinks of entertainment and fun, several times can come to mind: videogames, going to see a movie with friends, driving around the city, several things alike. Though, the big difference between those activities and gambling is the fact the gambling and casino industry advertise the massive wins of their gamblers for the sake of improving their own reputation and also to seek to attract new gambler into their services. Automobile makes, cinemas and videogame companies do not advertise their products and services by showing someone who gained millions by using them, so that expectation does not exist in those Hobbies. In the casino there are expectations and in many of the times those are held by novice gamblers who do not understand how that kind of advertisement is supposed to work, thanks to those ideas and expectations (which are negative) there will be always the small thought in your minds about doing money off the casino, regardless we are there for only fun or not.

The distinction between gambling for fun and gambling for profit is real. Gambling should be fun, not a source of income. Just bet for pleasure within your budget. This requires discretionary funds, not needed income. Gambling becomes riskier when it becomes more than just fun. "chasing losses" is always dangerous. Gamblers seeking quick fortunes are more addicted. The constant chase of the "big win" often leads to loss and desperation. Its a risky game with low odds.

Addiction treatment is difficult. Problem recognition by the individual is key. Friends and family can recognise the indications, but the gambler's admission is the first step to recovery. Effective intervention requires self-awareness, which is often difficult. Gamblers must accept their circumstances to recover.

That's why we really need self-control when gambling so that we don't gamble beyond our limits. While we are gambling, maybe we don't think about this because of the pleasure we get, but when we can think clearly while resting, we can find something useful in making decisions. We can avoid gambling addiction, which has been experienced by many gamblers out there because we care about our lives, and we also have people with whom we can exchange ideas or share whatever we want to share with them.

And we are indeed in control and we should not fall into gambling because gambling is just entertainment that other types of entertainment can replace. When we realize this and want to control ourselves, we will be able to use gambling as entertainment and will not gamble too often because we also don't want to take too big a risk in gambling.

Basically, gambling addiction is a very troublesome thing, especially since it can destroy a person's life. I think gambling addiction can be categorized if someone does it every day and even when they lose continuously and for someone who does it because they want to relieve stress once or twice a week that is not considered a gambling addiction.

Everyone can categorize themselves as being heavy gamblers or not and as long as they fail to control themselves then they are definitely addicted to gambling. However, this does not ignore the fact that sometimes there are gamblers who have run out of money but still borrow money from their friends and that is where the peak of gambling addiction becomes increasingly difficult to stop. So again, being able to stop gambling is something you can do yourself, not someone else.

While looking at what the topic creator have written above you will see some kind of contradiction but in another dimension you will understand that there is no contradiction in the statement above. What the creator of the topic meant is that gambling is strictly or should be strictly for fun and not as a major source of income. So it is important for anyone who is gambling to do so for fun and whenever someone is gambling for fun they will not necessarily use a huge amount of money that will affect their personal life to gamble. A gambler who gambles for fun will always use a spare money for gambling or in the other scenario he will have to have a budget from which he gambles and immediately he runs out of fund according to his budget he will stop gambling. But in the other hand the man who gambles in order to become suddenly rich is at a very high risk of becoming gambling addict. Is the man that will have to use a few cents to win millions of dollars and the more this man tries, the more he fails and the more he fails will be the more he chase his losses and in the end of the day he can have two or more winnings that will motivate him to continue wasting his money and that will eventually become a habit and that is what we call addiction.

It is true that not all addicts agree that they have been addicted. In fact it does not even matter if they agree or not because most times the addicts do not actually know that they are addicted. It is their friends and family members who will notice the change in their behavior and know that they are addicted. The whole thing is that if a gambling addict does not admit that he is addicted, finding solution to his problem is a waste of time. An addict must surely know that he is addicted and sincerely seek for solution before he could be cured.

Indeed, those who realize it as early as they can turn to addiction may find ways to look for another source of entertainment. I guess you need to work on it as a self-disciplined thing, no one but your own self who can help you when dealing with gambling, most of the time, a person who gets addicted needs professional help plus support from family members or close friends to back up the changes that they need when treating these concerns.

You need to be practical and always be in control if you don't want to suffer from any types of addiction and allow yourself to
move forward in terms of quitting your way.

This post is a bit ambiguous, you tell people to stop being addicted to gambling, but you also tell people to have fun while gambling.
What you need to know is that each person's gambling addiction cannot be predicted. There are many people who consider themselves addicted but they only play 2x a week.
There is also the opposite, playing gambling almost every day but not wanting to be considered a gambling addict.

So let them enjoy it, they addicts will have their own way of gambling.
Whether it's when you run out of money or don't have anything or even an internet connection to gamble online.
Because what I understand here is that you are talking about online gambling addiction.

They have to know that they can't beat the house. They can only enjoy their gambling activities without being able to make big profits, even though they can sometimes win from home. But the amount they win will not be as much as the amount they lose so it is still difficult for them to win large amounts of money. Stopping gambling is not as difficult as they imagine but the problem is how strong they desire to stop gambling and not use gambling anymore to get pleasure.

If they can do that, they will have no trouble quitting gambling and they may not even come close to gambling again. Those who realize this will try to find other types of entertainment that will not use up too much money so that they can save money for other purposes. And when they manage to save their money, maybe they will be surprised to see that they can collect quite a lot of money without gambling.

Most of the time, and if by chance that there's some who managed to make some profits from this venue thru luck may suffer from losses eventually, there's no accurate or sure way aside from being the house itself. Though we can't remove that fact where gambler thinks that they can overrun the house and win continously. Quitting is not hard for those who choose to enjoy and be entertained,  but for those who wanted to earn and use this venue for income generating venue, they will just feel disappointed if the outcome turned against them.

A very controversial post. You write that you love gambling and then you write that you hate gambling. You write to people to stop gambling and then to let them play for fun. The fact is that many people cannot give up this hobby and it destroys them. God can help them. I don’t know how your gambling streams can help people get rid of gambling addiction.
I completely agree with you on one thing. You are right that gambling should not be used except for entertainment. It would be very unwise to try to earn something from gambling on a regular basis.
Thank you for the article

That's what I did when I wanted to get rid of my addiction to gambling, which is to do it slowly, reduce the time of gambling activities and then increase physical activities to divert my energy and attention from gambling to things that expend more energy and energy.

Recovering from addiction is not easy, you must have determination and have a very high consistency so that the efforts made have a significant impact on change, whether or not this is effective depends on whether or not a person has consistency in doing so, because a lot of people who lose their consistency they return and return to addiction, making it difficult to cure, even though they have to use experts in handling it.

That is true because those who have gambled have a desire to gamble again, especially those who have won from gambling. They want to feel that win again so they will decide to return to gambling and hope they can win in the next game. But what happens is that they only experience loss, which will create curiosity about their loss and ultimately make them gamble longer than before. It is normal that most people want to have a large income without working hard but unfortunately, they take the wrong path where they pin their hopes on gambling. Gambling is not a place to make money so those who still hope to make money from gambling will only experience disappointment.

Losing everything doesn't mean they'll automatically learn about things, some might even go deeper than that and try to ask for a loan to continue their habit that's slowly turning to addiction every single day that they're spending on it. I don't think that prospecting the future is the key to quitting maybe it's just a part of it but I think and believe that the key to quitting gambling is to find their purpose and the person that they want to devote their lives to, what I mean by purpose is that when someone's just living their life aimlessly and swimming with the current, they're bound to look for something that will ease their search and sometimes those search lead to stuff that will lead to a life of ruin and so they end up getting stuck in that situation because they thought that the thing they've been looking for has already been found from that habit. The second one's pretty self-explanatory, you want to be the best person for that person so you'll do anything to make a positive change.

What is called addiction, whatever addiction it is, is indeed something that is difficult to cure because addiction is a habit that is continued every day without a break, for gamblers who are addicted is a phenomenon that is often seen and encountered. Especially for those who make gambling their main income, in Basically, gambling cannot be used as a place to make a profit because if we cannot make a profit and always experience losses, this can cause addiction because we are trying to recover from these losses, so we have to prevent things like that so that we don't become addicted.

It is true that addiction can still be cured, although it is a little difficult. If the gambler really intends to stop, he must try slowly to reduce his activities gradually. This can be a good start to cure addiction, because addiction requires a recovery process that takes quite a long time, depending on whether the addiction is serious or not.

Therefore, it is quite difficult to overcome the problem of addiction, especially if it is at a high level, which means that there are no precautions and restrictions on what they do in their gambling involvement, I have also often said in previous posts that those who are already addicted will be able to stop or at least reach a realization when they have experienced the worst thing they feel as a result of their gambling activities that have gone too far in the sense that it is too excessive as you said whether it is losing a very large amount of money or mental damage or also the destruction of the family, of course things that are likely to traumatize them then I believe they will be able to realize and really have the intention to change.

Exactly and of course your idea is correct that gambling is not a place to earn, it is nothing more than a place of entertainment to fill the empty time when you are bored during work holidays, but strangely they always override this fact by saying various reasons that refer to gambling as a place to earn, such as exchanging the pleasure of the thrill you get for a sum of money that you are able to account for. You really have to have a logical point of view and understanding if you don't want to end up like the suffering people who are already addicted.

Whether you realize it or not, anyone who has ever done gambling has a very early stage of becoming addicted, because most people want to have a high income without having to work hard (my opinion)

Yes, it will be realize when there's already a huge damage from both finances and mental concerns, a person who got really attach to gambling and fall to addiction will waste both time and money inside this activity, along the way they will keep pushing and keep aiming to earn from what they are doing, with the  misconception of just aiming for enjoyment or a place to quickly earn decently.

Gambling is not a place if you are looking for stable income, but a place where you can find entertainment, with good amount of time and limited money to spend, you can acheived it.

But if you failed to control yourself there are many risk that you will experienced, better to understand everything before involving yourself into gambling.

Yeah, that's also when I realized everything was a joke, when I lost all the balance in my wallet.
After that, I learned to avoid depositing after a loss. It worked out well for me and now I am not chasing the losses after the gambling site depletes my balance.
In all my experience in betting every day, I could say a winning chance is a rare thing to happen.
4 times, that's all that I have experienced withdrawing money after a win. I don't chase losses away from the amount I set. If all of it is gone then I am better off just resting my eyes and taking the day off.
I don't think I am ready to quit just yet. I still love the entertainment being provided by the gambling sites although most of the time it is losses. What I do is try to find my luck by jumping from one game to another and see if the seed that I picked could also find the right game that suits it.
It's not easy to quit, especially for a gambler that had been doing it for a long time but there must be rest because most of the time a gambler's mind is clouded by regrets and stress.

that's true, gambling is not a good way to get rich, because the number of people who lose is real, those who want to get rich by gambling will only have their money drained because the chance of losing is still above luck so they will get more losses than victory That's right  they think they will be happy by gambling but instead they suffer losses which can make them sad, their financial situation will be affected by gambling and also other conditions such as economic health and relationships.

of course financial ruin can also have an impact on a person's psychology, where someone who has no financial income at all, of course they will feel stressed because they think about the income they have to get.  In fact in my opinion, those who gamble should already have a permanent job so that they gamble using their own money don't use money from loans or anything else, but if they are addicted to gambling then it is likely that they  will find it difficult to stop because those who are addicted to gambling indicate that they are easily influenced and perhaps it will not be easy for them to realize that the gambling they are doing will be detrimental to themselves. .