Topic: QuitGamble.com - Free Help for Problem Gamblers - page 15. (Read 3394 times)

Well, this may sound very easy in words but not in practice,  because at some point,  you still have to know that even though those casinos that are registered are mandated to follow regulatory guidelines for their operations and players' welfare,  but even at that, there still will focus more on the revenue for the operation so for such it becomes obviously clear that not all the restriction rules will be followed by the casino and that have been the major issues as regards to casinos taking the responsibility to control their client's gambling behaviour.

The highest that they can do is to set an age limit which has already been set to 18+ or better still have a self-exclusion feature,  but anything outside these two,  the casino sees it as a drawback for their profit since they are in the business for the profits.

You see, people don't know many things, they believe everything can be done the way anyone likes it, but it's not always so. In a sane world, there are rules and everyone has their quote to contribute, or else things would go out of control. Talking about the house's responsibility in this context, in some countries, you would not be able to operate a casino without fully registering and being regulated, and if you do all these, you have to obey the rules as operators. One of the rules is for you to have the welfare of your customers at heart, particularly those who could be going through financial and addiction challenges. As much as the house would not know everyone personally to build relationships with them to know the problem in order to ship in their advice and recommendations, they are mandated to have the "Self-exclusion" feature on their website.

This is applicable to land-based casinos too, and it's just like signing an agreement that such a person will not visit their casino for a certain period of time due to a specific reason. However, I've read a series of cases that casinos do not obey as they allow such people to cancel the feature and start gambling again. But the government should not hear such as it's a very serious offence in some countries like the UK as it's a layer to force the house to take responsibility too.

In order to overcome addiction, it's really crucial that there's a willingness. Because the gamblers needs to help themselves first to start the journey of changing what they used to. Those who are currently experiencing a gambling problem can find support from each other who are also going through the same situation. Anyway, the site is good for gamblers who really want to quit and wants to overcome their gambling problem. But it will only work if the gambler itself is really willing and ready to leave gambling and determine to stop on how to effectively do it.

Not sure how effective the service this platform can be but it's still a good move. Any effort that may help an addictive gambler to stop gambling should be appreciated. And let's not forget they are offering this for free (if I'm not mistaken) so there is no harm in giving it a shot.
It can be a good alternative for support groups which most people can't attend for different reasons, especially with their forum and chat feature where you can talk about your problem with people from around the world.

Only if you know and understand the theory behind the process of building a house and demolishing one, you could see that one is very easy to do while the other is very hard to achieve, same thing likewise is being made applicable to gamblers lifestyle experience, if you want to get addicted, then it's easy to do but if you want to get out of it, that's not an easy task to do at all because it will require alot of efforts together with force to accomplish.

Yes, you would really be that needing to reassess on the things that you are currently dealing. It is really that impossible that you wont really be able to notice whether you are still in good shape or not.

On the time that you would really be finding yourself that addicted then self denial would really be that common and you would really be just that rejecting those events just
to follow on what your leisure seeking kind of emotion do really give out. You would really be that not minding whether you are doing the wrong or right thing because once you are
on such condition then it would really be that likely that you would really be that ending up on getting addiction on severe manner.

Things turns out to be uncontrollable if you do let yourself not to have that good control of your mind and with your emotions. You would really be ending up on a disaster.

I also think it will be easier for someone who is not already a gambling addict to be convinced out of turning into one than talking to someone who is already into it. I mean, there is a possibility of bringing an addict out of it, but the job will be easier if they don't even turn into one at all, like educating them on the things they need in order not to get addicted, just like our people usually say, "Prevention is better than cure."
 
Some gambling addicts always find it very hard to leave their addiction, no matter how hard they try to get out of it. They just keep their stock in it, and those who manage to get out of it most times happen to have already ruined their lives up to some certain level, which will take them time to rebuild.

The most important thing is the willingness to help other to overcome gambling addictions and the ops have chosen to select a few people as the project progress and there is a success ratio then he can decide to increase the number of beneficiaries and at some point also the ability to increase the number of those who may enrol in this is depending on the willingness of the gambler to quit by all means.

So with that readiness to quit,  it becomes easier for them to quit with little effort,  so first before the ops can take in new addicts for rehabilitation,  he should first check out for those who are truly ready to quit gambling.

In the end, it all comes down to our own will. If we don't have the self-confidence to decide to quit it permanently, nothing can make us do it. When it becomes an addiction, it is not impossible to quit. But it is surely hard. Humans are slaves to habit. Doing it over and over makes it a habit and as humans we get used to it.

Also, what are you against responsible gambling? It is a legit process on how you can make one quit gambling. Getting rid of addiction is a long process and when you take everything away at once, people will likely become more addicted to it. For this reason, people decrease the amount of gambling slowly and when they are introduced to responsibility, they will take that option over anything else. Because in this option, they are having the opportunity to still gamble. As humans we are drawn to the very thing that we are told not to do. Instead of taking it all away, we give them two choices which are not being able to do it or do it with some regularities. As an addict, they will always go for the second option.

I have been there and I know how it works. Maybe your method also works, but that doesn't mean others are not going to work the same.
Anyway, it is a good thing that you are providing this service for free. I wish you guys more success in the future. Good luck.

That's not true, I'm not sure about offline casinos but I've seen several online platforms having responsible gambling tags and some even have warnings that one should gamble at their own risk and only use money that they can afford to lose. So, even if they care about their customers or not, they do give such warnings to the customers so that they are not blamed in case a customer loses everything and then starts blaming the casino for their losses which some people do but if the casino has already given a warning and they still went and lost the money, it's their fault.

I also think that a casino does not have to do that because it's a business for them and people should already know that there is a high chance that they lose their money when gambling and if they are still doing it, they should take the responsibility on themselves instead of blaming anyone.

Something is better than nothing which is why what op is trying to do will not help many, but will definitely help a few and that by itself is a great accomplishment if you think about it.

Also, I disagree with your opinion about op sounding pessimistic. He is just being realistic while you are the one who actually sounds pessimistic here.

If quitting gambling seems impossible on our own, we will try to look for other ways that can possibly help us with our problem and one of them is the sites like this. Gambling is huge and so as the gamblers and the people who are addicted on it. I still believe that many addicted gamblers badly wants to change their selves.

There are addicted gamblers who can easily leave on their own, that is because their condition is not severe yet. I'm not sure if you are also one of them but if not, it's great that you still appreciate this website's efforts. Even me as well, even though I'm not an addict in gambling yet but we don't know in the future , or my kids, partner, family members, friends, etc.. are going to suffer the same condition. If so, I already know if where to go because my knowledge about gambling addiction may not be enough.

You are right, atleast, for the fact that I was actually amazed the day I was browsing through Stake.com and decided to check out what's in there in their Stake safe, the is a menu that can be found in the menu tab, I read the all the content in this program and I was really impressed with the way stake presented every thing about responsible gambling, after going through the content, I thought to myself that, if gambler can take time to go through such information before they start gambling, we probably will have less gambling addicts roaming our streets looking for solution on how to cure themselves.

Like it is commonly said that prevention is better than cure, gamblers should really engage themselves in going through responsible gambling programs, this will help keep our mind conscious of the possibilities of gambling addiction, and help us prevent such from happening to us.

Do you really believe that a few step by step tip is gonna stop an addictive gambler to quite? I've seen cases where gamblers went as far as going to see therapists to help them resolve their gambling addictions all to no avail. I'm not saying this isn't a good step, it is, all I'm saying is that the poster sounds so pessimistic about using this program to make addictive gamblers to quite. I'm just saying that contrary to the actual intent of this project, the result might be completely different.


But here's what could also work if you're so enthusiastic about helping addictive gamblers, try moving your targets to those who aren't addicted already, or those who haven't even started gambling, I don't know how you can reach out to the targeted audience but I feel if you do that, you'll be helping more people than you can ever imagine.

The more it's important that being a member of this community, you're expected to maintain the use of online gambling platforms available on the forum with a reputable standards in other to get along with them through their announcement discussion thread, not like other gambling platforms whereby you don't have access to any of their representative or even get a response from their customers service contact, we have so many experienced gamblers here who could join along with discussion on related matters of interest.

I don't think casinos will have a concern or care for their customers. I haven't seen a casino online or offline that promotes moderate gambling or even a reminder to gamble at your own risk or what so ever. The thing is, it's more advantageous to them if many gamblers become addicted and play for them. That's a sad reality, but that's how they earn or get rich, taking advantage of the misery of others. Well, I'm not generalising, but I know we are aware of how casinos work. If there is no money circulating, they could be closed or bankrupt, so they don't care for their customers at all. Even if there's a customer who's gone, they can easily find another one—in fact, more.

A game like this, like what the OP is promoting, can easily be useful and helpful if the person who's addicted initiates it by themselves. You can't easily convince an addict to gamble.

The thing is that most of the casinos have this features that seek to help problem gambling toward successful exit from such addiction and this seen what they put up on their site to help those in that category and that goes a long way to show how the casino know the risk that is associated with gambling so it better to avoid it in totality instead sliding into it and if that happens the addicts should be ready to go through the process of recovery and also place much more priority on getting out 100% and nothing less.

Very common scenario on gambling field or industry on which there would really be those people who do really ends up on getting addicted just because they arent that mindful in regarding with their actions. They do really tolerate out that kind of impulsive gambling on which it would really be resulting into more loses and just like been said that regret would really be there are we do know that it would really be always at the end and this
is why it would really be just that important that you should really be that mindful about the potential effects on the time that you do gamble. You can play but be wary about those emotions that might
build up along the way which would really be imposes risk and addiction.

On op, then it is really something that commendable on making something which is totally free for the sake of those addicted ones.We dont know if this one would really be that effective
or something relevant or not but its better to have rather than on having nothing at all on which atleast you do have some options or choices if ever you do tend to decide on quitting.
As long it would really be totally free then it would really be that great but in overall you could really be able to quit on your own if you are really just
that mindful about on the things that you've been dealing with.

You have said it right. Gamblers on this platform have the privilege to always complain about any casino that does not treat them well and likewise their own personal challenges. Many gamblers have been able to resolve issues with their casinos through this platform as that avenue is is always put in place to sort out issues between gamblers here and casinos so as to reach a peaceful without any partiality. This community have always been active to respond to members irrespective of the situation at hand and also many cases have been resolved here and if they are to be call on to say it, I believe all of them would come to talk about their experiences.

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Wouldn't acting as a casino affiliate, which promotes and encourages gambling, invalidate the real purpose of OP?

Although, I do believe that the gambling industry has the responsibility to protect its customers and the people that regularly use their service to make sure that they're living normal and healthy lives. Because one more person that develops a gambling addiction, is another customer eventually lost.