Topic: Quit gamble! Easy or Hard? Let's talk. - page 56. (Read 9750 times)

Yup, if dealing with addiction only the gambler itself that can do the hard work to prevent himself into gambling, just like you mentioned over coming that temptations that keeps in lingering inside you, it's something that most gamblers especially those who already deeply engage with heavy addictions, it's not easy and it surely a tough battle between your good side and a bad side, just imagine a devil and an angel in your life and right, hahaha just like a scene in a comedy movie way back the 90's 


That's how far addicted gambler can suffer, realizing once mistake with a heavy regret after losing a huge amount of money out from this activity, reducing your addiction to the point that you will forcefully carry yourself out from any form of addictions, aid from other people will be useful if the person itself is the one who really seeking for that kind of assistance to bring him out from this heavy addiction.

Gambling, yeah, some people show it all, some hide it all. Doesnt matter too much; its the addiction, right? A thing thats the same for both. Stress, anxiety, depression... You nailed it; its all a part of this whole gamble thingy. The body, the feelings, the way they decide stuff, all messed up!

Quit it? Not so easy, buddy. Some folks want rehab; some folks dont. Eyes see, feelings feel, guts suffer, yeah? Its all there, as you said. Parents and friends, support and stuff, its all needed. Good treatment, guidance, support, lots of support, and more support, thats what it takes. Keep up the support!

what becomes difficult is when support when a gambler is actually in the environment where he is. but I agree with you, even support from family will be important for gamblers to start reducing or even quit gambling. this is difficult but not impossible.
if you want to get out of gambling, maybe someone needs to get closer to his religion. looking for a tiring occupation may also work for some gamblers to start reducing their activities.
actually, I don't really see any gambling addict who actually got out of gambling other than bankruptcy which changed their life for the worse.

I get your point @ Peanutswar, another thing is that ignorance have made most people fail to realise their excessive gambling habits and before they realises it becomes to late and they become addicts some times people would really love to change from it but the same and guilt or sometimes pride won't want to allow them go to the rehabilitation centre to be associated with different type of people like the mentally ill and drug addicts that's why it's very good to encourage friends or family members out of gambling excessively, sometimes frustration from lack of money would want to make people to seek gambling as a better chance of getting quick money, but it is in your best interest to advice them, let them know the harmful effect of gambling addiction and the risk involved and even while you talk to them you do it calmly without being harsh or shouting at them, to help people with excessive gambling habit requires patience and tolerance, before quit an addiction is not very easy and takes a gradual process before the victim change completely, therefore constant support, constant encouragement and regular visits to a therapist would really go a long way to help gambling addicts recover from it.

Some people are open to everyone with their gambling activity and some of them are not there no much difference because once their mentality focus in gambling and takes too much depression and anxiety due to stress with their gambling addiction they will not have a possible side effects to their body, emotions and decision making. If you want to quit gambling this takes time, some people want to have a rehabilitation because they knew if this still exist with their bare eyes their feeling and guts to have this makes them more suffering. This consist a good treatment and guidance to make succeed reason why there's a support came from parents and friends.

Also prepare yourself by trying to understand the various harmful aspects of gambling addiction. Some gamblers who do not have a problem at the moment but are suspected of becoming addicted in the future can take steps to control themselves. This includes setting limits on gambling apart from this, determining the amount of money spent on gambling can also be a good step in this case. Instead of changing this habit, you have to prepare yourself by analyzing the harmful effects-symptoms or the reasons behind it. As the demand is at a level where self-restraint is difficult, it is necessary to seek the help of a professional or professionals.

Getting a job is a solution, but as long as they haven't been able to leave gambling voluntarily, they may return to the casinos because they can already get a salary every week or month. This might exacerbate their situation, where their salary can be used up for gambling if no one manages their salary money. And it is true that stopping gambling addiction requires strong determination and help from the people around him; in this case, the family must help cure gambling addiction.

Yes, that is an unhealthy statement because they rely on gambling for income. They should be able to think that gambling will not always pay off and they are better off just looking for a job than depending on gambling to make money. They will even experience gambling addiction which may be very difficult to cure, especially since they play gambling for too long just because they want to get a lot of money. They must intend to stop gambling and try to cure their gambling addiction by asking for help from the people around them.

No task is impossible in human life because when a person is determined to do a task, the hidden power within his mind helps to complete that impossible task.
Gambling is a tough challenge, getting rid of this intense challenge is not easy but not impossible either. A person addicted to gambling can get rid of this difficult challenge with the help of his family, loved ones, circle of good friends.

Well, casino owners are keep on upgrading their marketing plan in order to lure more gamblers into their platform.  But sadly gamblers can't get hold of a strategy where they can have a better profit when engaging in gambling activities.  All the gamblers can do is just to limit and moderate their gambling engagement in order to minimize their losses or maximize their wins if they happen to be lucky to get huge amount of winnings.



True that, the house edge is the biggest handicapped of a player while it gives a great advantage to the casino owners. Reason why if we happen to win a good amount of money, we should decide to stop our session and withdraw that winnings because if we continue, there is a huge chance that the casino can take it back together with our bankroll fund.



It will take a very strong will to overcome temptation if a player is already an addicted gambler because gambling addiction takes away that self control and the uncontrollable urge oftens nullify our self-restraint so it is really needed to have a very strong will to counter the urge of gambling addiction.

Yup! both casino owners and gamblers have that same intentions, both wanted to have some slice of that money, and you are right in that point that if your intention is to make money you needed to continue upgrading your strategy, same deal with casinos if they wanted to keep their business they need also to keep updating in terms of promotions and advertising strategy while with gamblers they needed to keep adjusting with strategy and patterns that might work to let them win while playing/betting.


Self-will, that's what you need even it's hard but surely it is doable if you are really intending to stop something, even you are already into addicting part with self-will you will find ways to move on and quit away, there are always people who can help if you really in need or really seeking to stop, just need to start from you and that burning desire to completely quit from your addiction matters, small step is better than doing nothing at all.

It's somebody who don't want stop gambling will give further excuses of gambling, so from my understanding we can gamble any time and any hours we feel like gambling and when doing that it will turn addict and turning to addiction It's also controllable, what I want you to understand in this, is that, if someone who is a smoker can desist from smoking so what will it take someone who is in gambler to stop gambling, this is all about choice and mindset in gambling, because I know that gambling have to deals with different spirits and mostly when we are addicted in gambling.

Losing control is personal choice since people can decide if they push thru or not. If they take out the greediness on their system they can avoid to be in bad position, but most of the time this happen to newbies  where they think gambling is easy and nothing serious will happen to them if they bet excessively. For knowledgeable or those we say experience gambler they can easily quit since they know how to handle the situation and knows a lot since they experience to be in negative situation by pushing theirself to their limits.

Whether we are just casual gamblers or not but in the moment that we are losing control of our gambling habits, the closest we will fall into addiction. And once we are into addiction, that can be pretty hard to stop. If we wanted not to fall into this situation, then we must not gamble in the first place. Because spending time gambling will lead to something that will influence our minds which might control our actions. Now that gambling is already available only, the more it gives us too hard to separate from the world of gambling or the best option is to stay in a place that has no internet.

I have given some instant or example before in this thread on how to quit gambling and if someone takes gambling very serious that will make them person to be addicted in gambling, so to restrict someone not to participate in gambling that means you make sure the person is receiving a weakly funds from other angle, because what makes people to gamble seriously is because all their mindset is in gambling and they that will lead them to continue to be losing because of they will be interested in recovering all their funds they lose, so quiting from gambling have be achieve by having a serious job, that will limit a gambler not to participate fully in gambling

It is possible and indeed one of the solutions that can be done, adding new hobbies or new activities will be able to distract the mind of a gambler. I think they are better off just getting a job, meaning they have to get a job that they can't leave, so indirectly it is true that in the end it is less likely for them to remember their gambling again. Everyone wants and needs money, and gambling allows them to get it but at a high risk. So, it's hard to take your eyes off someone who is already addicted to gambling. They need strong determination and help from the people around them, including family.


Lately I often hear the words of some gambling addicts, they say that they can get income from gambling to support their families. This is an unhealthy statement in my opinion, how can they get a consistent income just by luck, it's impossible. It is very difficult if the gambling addicts want to quit, although they feel like quitting but it is difficult for them, lust and curiosity always come to them every time, so it is almost impossible for them to overcome it on their own. I agree, and indeed they really need help from the people around them to be able to stop, there will be a lot of advice they will get and the role of both parents is very important here. So the point is they have to be sincere in their intention to quit and with help from others too, I'm sure it will bring results.

And by having a new hobby unrelated to the use of money, he can distract himself from gambling, which can help focus his attention on his new hobby. If he can get some new hobbies that keep him busy, he can slowly reduce his gambling activity until he does not think about gambling. After that, he will not play gambling because his new hobby can give him a sense of satisfaction and he can get more interesting pleasures than gambling. But this is not easy because gambling addicts will find it difficult to find a way out of gambling and find something different.

It may not be important for them but it is important for the people around them, especially if it is the gambling addict who has to make a living for his family. However, the gambling addict must immediately find a way to stop gambling but it must be with the help of other people so that he has no trouble finding this new way. And gambling addicts indeed have to make efforts to stop gambling because if they don't, they will be able to stop gambling and also not want to listen to advice from other people. This is why there has to be someone else who cares about the gambler to help him get out of gambling before things can get worse.

Anybody enjoying gambling doesn't have to quit, quiting is for only those that are not enjoying gambling because of the losses they're getting. Gambling will not favor everyone so if you noticed it isn't favoring you, you have to do the right thing on time and quit before it breaks you.

If you're not addicted to gambling, I don't see any reason why you should stop gambling as well. You mightn't be making profits because you aren't doing it correctly. You have to use a different strategy and see if it'll work for you to give you profits for you to continue gambling.

I believe you have to be comfortable hearing about gambling discussion without been interest to gamble because if you just run away from the discussion, you might meet new friends that at some point will bring up gambling discussion and if you don't have control of yourself, you'll go back to gambling.

Online frauds are on the rise and fools are being duped into making lots of money through various tempting offers. Same is the case with gambling as many new gambling sites have started coming in the market and these sites are offering many attractive offers through which the new beginning gamblers are getting lost. So panic gambling means loss.  Gambling requires patience.  And if it seems that gambling is harming someone too much then he should quit gambling.  Be that as it may or as hard as it may be

The bottom line I believe is to gamble responsibly.  Being a responsible gambler means having self-discipline and moderating our gambling activities.  Those who cannot control themselves in gambling and have difficulty imposing responsible gambling should avoid gambling at all costs because there is a high possibility for these kinds of people to get addicted to gambling or if not, they have the tendency to wager what they can't afford to lose and eventually chase losses that can put them in financial ruins.

Someone like myself, won't pay much attention to trying to quit gambling, this is because gambling to me is a fun affair and nothing more and I don't engage in it excessively to the point that I won't have control over my risks and betting pattern so why should I quit when I am still enjoying the experience and I wont to try out more feature and games in the nearest future.
But for this discussion, I think what ops was directing us to is for those who have engaged in gambling uncontrollably and recorded severe negative impacts of gambling addictions and are seeking out for escape route which is sometimes almost impossible and that is the reason why many are advised to avoid getting addicted in the first place since withdrawal is almost an impossible quest.