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The same advice is given when someone decides to stop smoking. And it is good advice. The only thing i want to mark - the gambler mustn`t begin doing something when he is thinking about gambling. The best way is to find a new hobby and be really interested in it. And of course his friends and family must help him. If someone has problems with gambling - often he can`t stop without help.
I agree with finding new hobbies unrelated to gambling or saying no money in those hobbies. And I think there are a lot of things we can do that don't use money and we just have to find them. Once we find it and like it, we will continue and slowly, we will not think about gambling so we can start gambling less and even leave gambling. We can ask friends and family to help us find new hobbies so they can also get involved in helping us.
In my opinion, the difficulty of getting out of the state when the player is constantly haunted by the idea that it is worth playing more and more and maybe even win back what was lost, and even better to win a lot and be finally satisfied, is very, very big.
Simply for the reason that regardless of our current thoughts, this thought itself and often comes to mind and haunts the player. Indeed, if a player is a rather smart person, then he understands perfectly well that any new hobby or hobby that other people offer him is done precisely in order to distract him from gambling. And this immediately reduces the effectiveness of such attempts to distract him. Here, according to my prescription, there can only be healing over a rather long period of time. The longer the player does not play, the less thoughts about the game visit his head and it becomes easier to resist.
And of course, it’s great if, after all, a new hobby, not as destructive as a painful passion for gambling at the level of gambling addiction, replaces his thoughts and directs his actions towards creating something new and interesting for him.
