Topic: Quit gamble! Easy or Hard? Let's talk. - page 78. (Read 9746 times)

I used to gamble (just quit it, never felt like going back), it made my mind restless. Even if you do it for fun, there comes a time when you feel like making income from it, it's just stupid.

Rich people gambles for fun, whereas poor people gambles to earn some side income. The post is meant for rich people who just gambles for recreation purpose and losses tons of money. Yes Gambling can be sometimes addictive and painful. If you manage to leave gambling then definitely you can sleep in peace. You can’t make gambling the only source of income. As gambling is a game of luck, and often you should make game of skill as your primary source of income. I am not advising everyone to quit gambling, rather I am asking them to not completely depend on Gambling.

Your previous thread was very interesting  to me and it also made me see reasons to my actions but condemning gambling  simply  from your own perspective isn't the right thing and to also counter your motion, ive personally  seen and also have very close relationships with about two persons who live off their lives from gambling, one built his life after winning over 65k USD and starting making several  investments  and even had to take a break from gambling to build his life, while the other was a weekly  certain earner from gambling and doing absolutely  very well than a regular 8am to 5pm worker and you can now imagine how lucrative gambling can be if you know your skills very well.

Gambling is easy to quit when your mind is ready to make a decision not to gamble anymore. This can be done with the mind deviation, wherever you feel like gambling you should have an alternate to focus. This means while we're addicted to smoking and plan to stop all of the sudden it is difficult. For that a chewing gum is available which can be used wherever we feel the urge and the habit gets broken. Same as that we need to find an alternate through which gambling addiction can be quit. In most cases gamblers quit after facing big loss and they've the understanding that chasing the loss is a way to loss more and more.

Gambling has been a way of man somehow partially affected the behavior of man because man himself is a gamble. This is from origin of man and it can't never be changed or destroyed, out of 99.0 percentage of people that gambles almost 60.2 percentage are all frequent gamblers and the remaining people are those who either gambles annually or ones in blue moon but what I understand is that they gamble.

Gambling has assisted man in so many ways and people has broken records through gambling this could be winning lottery etc, but they are all classified as gambling. For someone to quit gambling is like telling them to stop eating because they makes life out of it, more especially the unemployed people who lived in country that are lacking job opportunities are always engaging themselves with gambling to make a living.

Everyone must not stop gambling and btw there are religious people who finds gambling unethical and hence prohibited their fellows not to associates themselves with gambling but yet they still finds themselves secretly gambling that is to say we may finds it very difficult for people to quit gambling as it attracts new people every day by day.

Most people just go all in after maybe they might have experience some kind of good win and forgetting that gamble has to do with two functions which is winning and losing. The ability for every gambler to control his or herself during this heavy loss is what makes you not suffer and become an addict. When a gambler starts experiencing loses he or she forgets about everything and just keep chasing his losses which he will never get back and this act doesn't stop till the whole money for gambling is spent and thats when the regrets and frustration kicks in.

Knowing when to stop when experiencing lose is very vital to having a healthy gambling lifestyle.

One thing I noticed players with this attribute often find themselves have difficulty in quitting gambling.

1.  Greed - due to greed gamblers intend to risk their money for huge unsure winnings
2.  Laziness - people who just want to enjoy things and earn without doing any hard works also find gambling hard to quit especially when they are on a positive streak.
3.  Gambling addiction -  the uncontrolled urge to gamble, since they have no control over themselves it is expected that they will be having a very hard time quitting.

Kid, If you're busted don't invite us to your misery we enjoy gambling it's your wrong mindset and approach that leads you to your misery you forgot to only gamble with money that you can afford to lose and don't expect to make a living out of it if you're enjoying because you quit good for you, have strong control and right mindset so if you decide to comeback and gamble again, you will not feel the misery, you've feel when you want to quit.

This is the reason I always like to advise people most especially those chronic gamblers not to just leave gambling activity at once, if they do I am sure that they will surely come crawling back to it again. It is never an easy task to quit something that has become an habit that you do every single day, the best approach is to look for a talk mate, like a group of people that do come together to talk about things that are bothering them they could be strangers ( it's better if you don't know them that way you would be free to say what you what to say without having to reserve yourself), Next would be to look for an activity to engage in, note during all these processes you will start reducing the amount of time you normally spend on your gambling account. With time you won't feel that urge to gamble anymore.

For a chronic gambler to be able to stop gambling they need discipline, they won't stop it by just proclaiming it.

Hard for people which just starting up and expect unrealistic condition while they are gambling. They usually aim for big things without even seeing the realistic situation about it that's why other got a hard time to quit because they had been addicted with it.

But for other experienced the worst they can easily quit with this because they know that continue playing especially when luck is not on our side is totally not good to us. And also they know that there's nothing good to happen with them if they continue to gamble especially if they can't controll their greed.

It seems to me that you are confusing things, and it is strange because you yourself talk about playing for profit and playing for fun, they are very different things, and you talked about that. but then your focus changed to the radicalism of telling people to stop playing games, I think it would be more correct if you told people to stop playing games for profit and just play for fun, when you put things like that we can easily see this great existence, if you notice you will see that in most cases people become addicted to games of chance because they are looking for profits, and not just any profit, they are wanting to earn a lot of money

something capable of making them very rich immediately, but as it is something very difficult to win in gambling, so people start losing a lot, losing money and hope and then they get involved with drugs and alcohol and become addicted to gambling, usually an addiction it always leads to the other addiction and the problem becomes bigger. so don't focus on telling people to stop gambling, focus on telling people to stop gambling for profit, that's different. there are still people who play for fun and have good control of their finances. I also don't understand the meaning of that link you posted, as I didn't click on it I don't know what it is about

Thanks for your valuable opinion! There are so many addicted gamblers who think they never can get out of the current situation without winning huge on any slot, so they can cover the previous loss but in reality, these guys just dig their own graves but nothing else. There are many platforms that are built by healed gamblers for addicted gamblers but it is not easy to start this process if there is no support from close relatives to the addicted gambler. Kick is also gambling related platform, it is somehow not the best choice to help addicted gamblers and educate them to quit it, IMHO. Best of luck on your journey and never come back to the gambling platforms.

I don't know but I feel some kind of impossibility in what you just said about some gamblers having to leave or quit gambling once they acquire a huge win. I think its just the opposite to what you said because the anxiety to play and win more overshadow your thought and its very difficult not to gamble after experience such feeling. In fact the gamblers increases his stakes on games with the intention to reduce the risk in his bet by selecting fewer odds to play but its just all the same thing as increasing stake doesn't guarantee you a winning and its just increases the risk of you losing bigger money.

I never take it as an income but that does not mean that I can quit easily,I love playing every week at least some good slot machines sessions with predetermined budget and whatever happens happens.I am not happy at all when I am forced to not gamble trying to quit,quitting comes naturally when you have had enough of a specific thing,including gambling is the same when you have enough you have enough and the quitting comes naturally soon after.

I love to gamble though,I was addicted in 2020 but have come out of it thanks to a strong self will who I kept feeding week after week until I am here where I completely control myself and I love gambling,responsible gambling for real.I don't want to quit completely,I love to gamble in this way,I can't stay without playing but only play a determined budget.

Totally a challenge or something that cant really be that simple because if someone is already that been shackled with addiction on which it is really that hard to get out or getting rid of it unless if you are a type of person

on whose really that have strong self will and discipline then you would really be able to solve out this addiction quickly but if not then you would definitely be a huge problem on solving this out.
There are people who are addicted do able to resolved out such problem and there are ones who could not and this is why they had been helped out by their loved ones or even having that professional
seek of help on which we cant really say that this would really be that simple.

The most important thing on here is that on the time that you do gamble then dont make yourself get addicted to it because once this thing do really happen out then getting out would really be that hard.

You're absolutely right! Quitting gambling can be quite a challenge. It's like trying to walk away from a buffet when they announce that dessert is being served. It takes a lot of willpower and a strong mind to resist those sweet temptations!
I totally understand the challenges people face when trying to quit gambling. It can be a tough battle to resist the allure and temptation. It's like trying to hold a bar of chocolate in front of a chocoholic and telling them not to take a bite!

If you go through ops post history, most especially, his posts here in the gambling board, you will discover that he is a chronic gamblers, and also a chronic gambling addict as well.

So for, if he decides to quit gambling to help himself, that's a good decision for himself, but the wrong thing is his attempt to drag other to quitting gambling like himself, he probably assume that every one else is addicted like himself and needs to quit, a very wrong thing to assume.

You lack self-control over your gambling life and this hard led you to great loss. You have come to realize how much that you have lost this afternoon and you decided to quit so that you can be free from your addiction and you are telling us to quit gambling. I gamble for fun and I enjoy the pleasure that I get from it,this is the reason why I wouldn't quit gamble because I am a responsible gambler. If you think that gamble is for profit that is where you got it wrong and you will get addicted to it. Maybe OP, is a chronic gambler and has come to his senses that gambling is not good for his health.

You are right and I have been a victim of this on multiple times and it is not funny how it feels when you lost almost everything trying to chase more winning or getting carried away by the excitement of the first winning.

So since that bad experience,  I have learned to make sure I take off all the winning once the games are over and there after I take a break for a while to cool off because it has been proven times without number how not setting self-limit has ended gamblers in bad situation or corner for multiple numbers of time so it is important to set that limit in place before venturing into playing any games.

I think you can only say that because you are not playing gambling most of the time. Playing frequently doesn’t mean you addicted but rather you just like the concept of the gambling because it provides entertainment. Maybe you have other things that gives you entertainment which is why you are not fully soaked on playing gambling.

It’s only easy to quit gambling if you really don’t like it or you are afraid on the potential loss due to the risk involved. But real gambler that having fun playing will definitely have a hard time to stop playing because this were they get the fun.