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There are so many gamblers in this virtual world or even in the real life, there are some that can be considered as a compulsive gambler or those really addicted in gambling. That is the worst thing that you may acquire in gambling, in which that all the things that you are usually doing are now nothing, you are only focused on gambling, even your relationships on your friends and family are affected.

I want to help those people who really abused by the gambling, let me list down all possible solution that they may use to recover from being addicted in gambling.
1. Focus on your family or friends - if you have strong relationship with your family and friends then you will forget to play gambling, and they may help you to limit yourself from gambling.
2. List all things that were affected by gambling - if you can see all the things that were affected because of gambling then you may realize that it has no goods to give you, then I hope that it makes you think to stop gambling.
3. Read and Search about gambling addiction - if you can see all people that have been affected because of gambling then you may stop from being addicted on it, there are some people's life that already destroyed because of gambling.
4. Meet and visit experts or professionals about mental health - If you really want to limit yourself from gambling, but you can't then you may visit some experts and listen to their advise.

What about limiting your budget for gambling ?
The limited budget for gambling will not allow you to become addicted to gambling, because once you are out of your budget you will automatically quit it for the day or week, according to your plan. The less funds you allocate to gambling, the better you will remain safe from the risks of losing money.

Limiting doesn't really help at all because they could just cheat on their own.
The best way is to seek help from family and friends and focus on your family just like OP's suggestion.

Very well said mate, there are a lot of ways for you to recover yourself from being addicted in gambling, and on of the best way that you have said is focusing on your family or friends, if you have strong connection on your family and friends, then I don;t think that you will find gambling anymore, if you are gambling because of entertainment, then your friends and your family can give it to you more than gambling can give to you. But if you are gambling because you want to earn money, then you better stop it because there is a little chance of winning any gambling sites, because the one who win in gambling site is the owner of the websites.

Indeed, actually that is the first thing that came in my mind when talking about recovering from being addicted in gambling, Your friends and your family is a big help for you. You can find happiness in your family and friends compared to gambling, because you will only be happy if you win the game, but actually that is really impossible because it is really hard to win in gambling. Only the owners are the winners in different gambling sites. but have you ever thought that your family and your friends won't help you if you are really into gambling? if that is the case then I think those professionals are the one that is the best to meet and acquire some advice from them.

Why not being proactive/preventive instead before taking the world of gambling or even before gambling once? Many people have found fun in gambling as it gives delicate satisfaction that other games couldn't bring. And an addict, even in any reason or aspect they are addicted to, requires further rehabilitation and rehabilitation is their only cure. Why? It's easy to say that one can recover from something due to what they first think of changing. Yet even change is constant and the idea of changing can be changed also. Therefore, it is better to have self-discipline first before entering gambling.

Almost all of the recovering methods listed in the OP can possibly cure the addiction to playing gambling games. Every method in the list is depending on the level of addictions you have and some are unnecessary like on number 4 that you need to seek for an expert to help you recover in the addiction you have. I did the number 2 and 3 on the list, It is quite helpful and it helps me recover from my addictions slowly, But the most helpful thing for me is that making myself realized from the bad things that gambling addiction did to my life, I am recovering slowly until now.

There was a time in my life when I was addicted to gambling back when I was in high school. Yes, I was young back then but I realize that I don't win and every time I go there, I lost every money I have in me including those cents in my bag. Every day I do this, I go there after school, in the classroom, I think of some strategy on how will I get that huge money by gambling. My whole world revolved around gambling and gambling strategy. Thankfully, My Mother always gets me and scolds me about what I'm doing and she was never tired to get me out of it. then one day I realized, that she was right all the time and finally I decided to leave it until now.

The one who introduced me to that place is my friends, that's why we need to be careful when choosing some friends because whatever they do, they somehow invite us with what were they doing and the worst part is, if they have those bad habits, they might share it with you without realizing it.

You can recover easily by looking at the bad effect of it in your life and how will people say about you while doing this. and lastly, why not use that money to invest in some business, you can save it and make some changes in your life and be motivated by those successful people who are not gamblers.

None of these strategies will work unless you yourself are determined to recover from the bottom of your heart. If you are simply lying to yourself, nothing will work and you will always be an addict.

Therapists can also help to an extent, but they would most likely repeat what I mentioned. You are responsible for yourself at the end of the day(No one else is).

I don't know why there are too many gamblers who say they are addicted to gambling. If they know what is the consequences and become addicted, probably at the early stage they will stop gambling or moderately used gambling. So, from the start, you can avoid this addiction stage. But all of these was depend on you, you should know how to discipline your self. It's started all with you.

All OP's stated above was helpful and maybe that is the right way to cure gambling addicts. We could not cure addictions through our selves, we should have a family, friends or parents to guide us. Mental illness is not curable in a short period of time, it takes time to recover.

Actually, limiting your budget in gambling would be not enough for you to limit yourself from gambling because there are times that if you get lost in the gambling and don't have money anymore to bet, then you might have debt on the people around you or to your friends because you are not satisfied being lost in the game.

Some people, if they get lost from gambling they do things to turn back their money, the worst thing the they may do is they may cheat the game, just to win win the prize or the reward, but in some part limiting your budget will also works, especially if you are in the casino alone without your friends or someone you know.

there are so many different ways on how to recover from being addicted in gambling like thus for example giving your attention and time to your family and friends so that you will not be able to find ways on how you will gamble. or another thing is to consult on some psychologists so that you will be able to check your own mindset or mental health because i think they are the one who are professional in terms of mental illness because sometimes gambling addiction is more likely addiction that consults on your mental health.

Get a new hobby. That's an idea that I always introduce whenever the topic of addiction comes up, whether it be gambling or not. They turn to addiction cause of the lack of stimulus in their lives, having nothing to do and repeating the same cycle over and over for their entire lives, hence, they turn to stuff that causes addiction. It's a case of "actually finding a hobby, but letting it affect you negatively" kind of thing. The relationship between the two should honestly be a positive one, so if a hobby gives you a negative feeling, switch it out, find a new one.

Trust me, it's hard to just say remember your family/friends and get some help. There's always a what if situation wrapped up inside your mind that is really difficult to let go. You could also give the idea of slowly reducing your duration of being under the effects of addiction. Like how smoke addicts use cigarettes less often each day, maybe 2 days, so that they can slowly get used to having 10 cigs a day to 0 cigs a day.

I am agreeing about this comment in which i am once a smoke addicted and which i smoke always sometimes in a day i smoke 20 sticks of cigarettes but when i noticed that i am miniso or first i concert on a mental health professional in which they help on what to do about my case detail me that if i am smoking 20 sticks of cigarettes per day then art it by lesson everyday one stick and which it becomes more helpful for me because day by day i am lessen my cigarette stick, and it is more likely than gambling addiction seek for any things that may keep your attention or focus just like for example on studying working and also seek for attention on your family member that your family is one call away.

In summary: Just spend your time on another activity, don't let yourself at a boring situation. I believe these problems could be the same problem for addiction to watch a p*rn.

If you cant leave on your favorite gambling website, you should start to block all of them to your browser.

More info about "How to block a website by yourself" you can find it on google.

As what other said above are true especially when you will find and make your self busy again but not in any form of gambling.
It is really comes first in ourselves, even I am not yet felt the addiction, but I can control my self and I have always to think my priorities before doing such gambling. Most of the ways listed above are always starting in ourselves.

Self will and the person's determination to escape from this vice is really needed, those listed ways are legit and really helpful to back up the persons
healing process. If you can find other means of entertaining yourself and keep you being busy,  with the help of your family and the treatment that
you will be going to deal with, sooner you'll realized that everything is already in good shape.

Or you can just completely leave the tech world. Not permanently though. Just for a few months, go to some province, visit other countries ( if you can ) and start breathing in the fresh air. You can probably start trying out hobbies you'd never have touched before, like farming (or planting/taking care of plants. Trust me, it's actually fun if you get into it) or fishing. There's more to this world than gambling, and even if you start saying that you have no money, you can try out drawing. Maybe even dancing, or playing sports.

Friggin great example ngl.

We saw here some good advice where and how to start to fight gambling addiction but I think that the biggest problem is to admit.that you have a problem. Many people just ignore that thinking everything is fine but if your whole life turns around gambling and you're having financial problems because of it then you are in big trouble.
Friends and.family can help but you just have to allow them to do that and good will and a lot of efforts is needed to get out of addiction.

The best way to recover yourself from being addicted to gambling is by limiting your money and time in gambling, so that you don't push ypurself to gamble again even you lose before you leave. Changing your habit could also help you to stay away from gambling like playing video games or going to work just to keep you busy.

Just staying away from gambling is quite difficult for people who have been doing gambling for a long time, so i think the best way to recover yourself from being addicted in gambling is by giving all of your money to one of your family members or relatives for you not to control yourself from spending your money in gambling.

Its quite not easy to stay away from addiction in gambling but to overcome it you need to let yourself to try another thing that no sign of gambling or involve to it. Also convince yourself to not invlove to it if your really a addicted gambling because it can cause you a big trouble if you continue to involve to it. Take your time until you heal from addiction, make yourself busy, or else ask some help if really needed if you can handle it anymore.

We should be a responsible gambler so that we cannot end up being addicted. We should keep in mind that we are playing just for fun and we shouldn't take it seriously if we lose sometimes because it will probably give as stress. As we start gambling we should be aware that we might lose our money that is why we should set our budget for it and we shouldn't exceed with that limit.

There are many ways for a gambling addict to recover and stop being a gambling addict. In my opinion, the best way to recover from being a gambling addict is to divert your attention to other things that does not include any gamble and always spend your time with for yourself, friends and family most of the time so that you will only have less time for gambling or none at all.

Gamblers have various of reason why they gamble, some for fun while others are for money. As a gambler, we must know how to self-discipline because it will help us by making us analyze our own limitations. Focusing on other fun things than gambling can make you realize that there's so much more entertaining things to do, such as watching movies or reading books. Aside from that, guidance from family and friends can also make an improvement on the process of your recovery because they will enlighten you how gambling affects your life. They will assist you as you confront the truth, which is too much gamble can lead to addiction and that is the reason why we need to set limitations.

The only way to recover from a gambling addiction is to leave it completely, ngl. From my experience, as long as you keep attached to gambling you are going to sink in deeper and lose more. No amount of good luck can really recover you from the trap of the magic of the house edge ;) so yeah, that's how it is, to be free and in profit, just don't go near gambling haha xD

Honestly, this won't help in most cases. The eagerness to bounce back is always there when people lose.

Let's reconstruct your statement into:

"The limited budget for gambling will push you more to become addicted to gambling because once you are out of your budget you will find a way to recover on that day no matter what. The fewer funds you allocate to gambling, the more aggressive you will seek for money to gamble."

Self-discipline is the key. Fight the addiction no matter how hard it is.

Most of the time people do only realize when its too late and the damage had already been done which is unfortunate.I do agree that this one need some self admission that you are already get involved with gambling too much where it do comes to the point where you do already compromising money which isnt really intended for gambling ex. life savings or daily living funds. Recovery would really be hard once you get
hooked with gambling addiction yet we know that getting out of it wont really be easy and it does takes time and strict discipline on ones self before you can fully overcome it.

I understand that you want to offer help and advice but unfortunately, those people who already become addicted to gambling will not read this type of thread or visit a certain site about helping them how to recover.

They are too busy and focus on their agenda to earn money seriously in gambling even it already affects their daily life.

Sometimes only learning through the hard way and that's to experience by themselves the negative effect of doing gambling before someone will able to wake up on what's going on.

I agree it is best to spend more time with family and friends when you want to recover from being addicted in gambling unless those family member and friends are the one's who trigger you to gamble.
be active find something that would keep you busy and happy at the same time find some sports or activity that you would enjoy,
And of course self discipline it is the most important part of recovering from any addiction.

If you feel you are addicted to gambling, you better tell your family and friends because that is important to have an open yourself to them, so they know you have a problem in addicting. They will try to help you to search the way to release the addicting, and perhaps, they will ask you to meet some professionals who will know how to solve the addicting. The other important thing to solve the addicting is you need to have a strong mind or a will to distract your mind from gambling.

Having another activity will help you to distract your mind from thinking about gambling, and the more thing you can get busy, you will not think about gambling. You can try to another else, perhaps, new things to do which you can feel excited too. I am sure if you are trying hard to solve the addicting, you will see it will work for you.

even if we say that your family and friends are the ones that triggers you to gamble  , they are also the ones that will help you changed or help you to have a self control because they are already expert on it , they already have an experience before you  . those people knows how to not get overboard because they also knew that once you are over of doing it , itl cause you more harm than the benefits that you can possibly get  .

i agree on sports . sports is something that will keep us busy and healthy at the same time  . sports can provide amazing good benefits compare to other activity , like for example video games  . sure video games make you happy but the benefits isnt good than sports   . decipline is also a strong powerful word that will help alot  .

Being addicted in gambling really is a hard circumstance especially when it lasted for too long, mostly people who experienced this have lost their financial capability and also their career like some popular people in our country. We should help someone with this kind of addiction especially if it is our relatives and close friend before its too late for them and have already in deep with the addiction. For me, the way to combat this is to always weight more important things than gambling when you are becoming eager to play, so you could differentiate and assess yourself to help you combat or to control this kind of addiction.

I think professional help is seriously the best answer anyone could give. Yes, you can somehow stop yourself as well but that is a smaller chance and I wouldn't suggest that as the late stage part. If you can stop yourself then you can stop yourself and it wouldn't be an addiction that ruins you, if you are in too debt that already means you were not really doing all that well to begin with.

However, if you ask for help from a professional and get rehabilitation like any other addiction, you can stop or at least have a higher chance to stop gambling. This is a bit better than the other addictions because in the end you can ruin your whole life and be on the streets and all that at worst scenario but at least you will not die from over gambling so you should see the silver lining in it.

The problem sometime in gambling addiction by our relatives is that they won't inform us that they are really gambling. We'll only one once they are broke and they need to borrow money from you. In this case, insist to give them money but rather offer them other help like giving them food or whatever ways that can help them without involving money. The reason why we are avoiding that is that they might use the financial help they receive from you which will make them harder to pay you back.

the only possible solution is for us to control our emotion and our Lust in gambling because no matter how many advises and solution you are referring for us but if we don't have self control?this is all nonsense .
and also Family is one most important part of this Journey of every gamblers because if there is no family that will guide them?for sure nothing will happen good.

As for what I see in this industry, there is a certain level of addiction to some people where he doesn't really care when someone is telling him to stop gambling. there is also a certain level when his self cannot control this habit and this time he really needs to ask some advice from his family. if it didn't work, he needs to go to a psychiatrist who specialize in this kind of field.

not only certain person but all addicted gamblers has this same attitude ,they don't listen to anyone or anything but themselves that is why they are uncontrollable
this will come if the addicted gamblers is starting to realized their mistakes so Doctors and family will be in need for their recovery.

Diversions is the key if you are already involve to this kind of issue, if you can find ways to keep yourself busy with things that can keep you away
from this industry, gambling is one of those vices that really hurt your finances, if you see someone  related to you or close to you best to intimidate
and keep him busy working with other stuff push him to look for other activities to forget about his addictions.

If we can try our best not to reach that point that we have to recover ourselves, we should do it. It's better to prevent ourselves being addicted than finding solutions. Before we gamble, we should start with giving ourselves a proper mindset when it comes to gambling.
Although we can't stop addiction, we can still make way to get out of that trap. If you feel you are being addicted to gambling, start looking for other things to be busy of. Surround yourself with the people who makes you happy even without the need to gamble.

If I were the addicted gambler, I'd go first with the fourth one because I think it is more effective than the first three. My friends have their own family to give more attention. There are times that other members of the family are busy so they cannot accommodate me. List some affected in gambling ? I think even you don't make a list you already knew what/who are affected of gambling. So I think there is no need. If someone if so lazy to read then number is somehow impossible

I think number 2 and number 3 will not be the attention of addicted gamblers because they will not care about anything that happens around them. Maybe the only thing that can help them to realize that they are addicted to gambling is their family. If one family care and concern each other, they will know if someone of the member having a problem and they will help that person to solve it. And if the thing that the problem is severe, they will ask that person to go to the professional that can be able to help that person.

Well, there are many ways to recover an addicted gambler in gambling and you've stated some. I will just share my opinion into each of them.

One of the best ways to recover from getting addicted into gambling. Spending time with them especially if you have good ties and good relationship can help you recover from it. This would not be applied if unfortunately, the gambler doesn't have a family near his place though.

Me just thinking the word gambling itself makes me realize that it will not give any benefits to me :D. I felt regret when I tried gambling because I didn't win but I lose a certain amount of money thru gambling.

Kinda connected with the 2nd one. Having a research on gambling addiction can make you realize that you might want to stop gambling. Unfortunately, not all gamblers are doing it since they see no sense in doing it :D. They will just gamble and hoping that they will earn money from it.

This is the most helpful one for me. Experts in mental and health problems will definitely can help you recover from getting addicted into gambling.

i find numbers 1 and 2 simillar  . 1 is you think of your family and 2 is you think of things  or you mean things such as objects ?  as i grow old the feeling that i have for my parents are wore off  .

 this makes me insist to continue playing gambling but there are times that im down and guilty  ,  i still think of them just to have an inspiration to change   . foccusing on things/objects like my device can get broke due to too much usage because of gambling is also i think of sometimes  .

Obviously, professional intervention would be the number one answer here, but then again we have some gambling addicts who have no access whatsoever to professional care due to its price. I would say finding a new hobby would be the next best alternative in curing or at least alleviating the burdens of gambling addiction to an addict. Diverting one's attention from his current addiction has showed some positive results on some people and is definitely worth a shot. Barring the person from gambling by minimizing the amount of money they can carry, or preventing them from visiting gambling houses and websites would only strengthen their urge to gamble.

Finding something else that captivates your attention in your free time is something you can try if you're not deep into gambling addiction; I know I was bordering on gambling addiction in the past and doing exactly this resulted in me making a pretty sizable sum of money and helped me realize how much time I was wasting gambling and how unproductive I was during those times.

Also realize that professional help can be the best option sometimes, because professionals are often more equipped for more severe cases of gambling addiction. Some people also shun help, and if someone you know is avoiding help even though you recognize that person has a severe gambling problem, at some point it's not worth trying more.

Limiting funds may not bring effects to addicted gamblers, but it can be one of the ways to prevent addiction. Moreover, this way can avoid us from playing excessively in gambling and also prevent debt/loan.

I agree that family or close friends who can help an addicted gambler. Those people know more than others. They have a higher chance to make the gambler to recover from addiction. But sometimes, they also need experts or professionals of mental health as the OP said.

Wanting to recover from gambling addiction truly needs sheer determination and will power from the gambler. In the end, it is him that will determine the total withdrawal from this game. But yes, support groups are needed to help him not to go back again to his habit. They will serve as the reminder why he is doing such change of lifestyle and be on track to his goals.

There is never an unambiguous possibility. Dependent people must confess and only then can other people help them. This has been proven for a long time. Everyone who plays for a long time knows that there is no turning back. you must confess

That is a good advice, if someone there experiencing it if you are still capable try to engage yourself in different aspect in life like sports but avoid betting just do it for physical fitness and fun. Also, if you dont have a partner try to get one sincerely or if you already have a family think about them, about their future. It is really hard if you are just alone.

Good idea. Get another habit will make easier to leave the gambling habit excessively. Addiction means you play gambling too much, you need to make it normal again. If your daily activity is only playing gambling all day, it will be hard to recover it. So, you need to make yourself busy with outside activities. 

Agree. An addicted gambler needs his closest people. They can be family or friends. The gambler will be hard to recover from addiction if he struggles alone. He needs someone who has a different perception and knows how to give advice effectively to the addicted gambler. However, at a severe stage, he needs an expert or professional.

The problem is , do majority of these addicted ones would really plan to confess?I guess not, most of the time they will just deny that theyre addicted ones.
Recovery or completely get rid of gambling addiction will depend on ones mind which there are various of things that should really be done to divert out your attention towards it.
Recovery takes time and complete patience and control because if you do let yourself still exposed into these things then total recovery would be hard.

of course having a strong relationship with family and friends can influence to minimize gambling activities that he often does even if he is always busy to fill other activities with friends and family then naturally addicted to gambling will disappear over time, but most gambling addicts quite difficult to be able to leave gambling because gambling he does is as an activity that can make money and have fun

If a person became addicted it will be hard to return back to his old self due to the influence of gambling specially you already used to it and its included on your daily routine.

Its a must to know your limit from the very start to prevent the worse scenario. To overcome addiction what op's said was right I just want to add, you should have a will to get over your addiction and help yourself. Because even others are willing to help you but if you dont make an effort to change the way you live your life then nothing will happen.

Well, that's what distinguishes a dependency, the constant repeatability until it becomes an addiction. To get out of the situation you have to break the daily routine and try to avoid situations when you were used to gamble a lot. I stoped smoking about 15 years ago from one day to another. The only thing I did was changing my habits and avoid situations were I would have smoked a cig or two. As soon as you broke the habits the addiction is easy to beat I think.


This is the main point in my opinion. One has to accept that he or she is addicted and that he wants to get over it. As long as this understanding of situation is missing, the patient doesn't accept that something is wrong and doesn't understand why he should change anything. The best doctors want have any chance to cure him/her as long as the patient doesn't want to get cured.

Gamblers get addicted by their choice, I don't believe that gambling will push you to become addicted to it. At first, if you really want to reach that point, you should limit yourself in the first place. Being greedy after a loss will really make you lose more and unfortunately, everything. Your mind and body is yours, so you are responsible and accountable on what you do during gambling. Aggressiveness is the no. 1 enemy of the gamblers, they see gambling as a source of income in their daily lives which is wrong. No matter how hard you try to fight the addiction, but if you're not limiting yourself in doing that, then you will a have a hard time to manage your money. Self-discipline is not enough just by saying it, we must perform and practice it before and during gambling.

After we gamble, we must reflect on the result that we could get. We should think more, understand, perceive, and realize if gambling really can help us grow in life.

From the very beginning, you need to settle your limits and never to exceed from it. Coping with gambling addictions needs to have deeper help, aside from family and medical treatment, a big help needs to comes up first from your own will. From that point of views you'll be eager to recover and you'll be able to start everything by finding other things to do and start limiting yourself to think about gambling and anything related to it.

Accepting is the first as it helps you know that their is a problem and then only we can find the solution to it . Secondly if someone wants to reduce the gambling or want to stay away then try to do some other activity or pick up a sport or anything which you like and spend time in that . This will help you to grow individually as well and also to reduce the frequency of gambling as you will get less time to spend on such things .

Well said mate, gambling is very used by many people in this virtual world or even in the real life, there are people who destroyed their life because of being addicted to this gambling, actually I don't understand those people who really addict on gambling, there are so many ways for you to earn money, and for sure you will really earn money if you have a job compared to gambling that has low chance to win the game.

There are so many ways that a gambler may do to prevent from being addicted on it, and one of four that you have said, the "focus on your family or friends" is very advisable because they will really help you to limit yourself from being addicted in gambling, they may give you more happiness than gambling can give to you.

Personally from past experience, theres a special way to go about it.
The biggest way to get over self addiction is personal victory. Seeing a psychologist after that then perfects.

What do i mean by personal victory ? The addicted individual must first decide within his mind and soul to recover from the addiction, after which your listed points above can have a positive and quick impart on the individual.

Point number one is very important, if you have a loving and strong family, there is no way you will turn to gambling, because gambling will turn you away from your family, and of course you do not want to be away with your family, I have not seen a loving and responsible father gambling to much to the point of neglecting the family.

The best was to recover from gambling is doing things that would give you pleasure and make you forget about gambling.
This might be spending some time with your family outdoors and by not having any access to internet or an online gambling website - or even a traditional one.
Through time you are going to remove it from your routine and forget about it.

Are you a psychologist ? or at least a former gambling addict that's why you have a good idea on how to help addicted recovers from the case?
because if not then for sure this is another Duplicated ideas that has been mentioned here for how many times,
one best way right,being with the family we love?they will surely lessen the desire and time goes by that we will just forget the needs to play and realized the mistakes we commit in past.
but this is so hard to be because Gambling addiction is not that easy to forget thats why this is one of the main reason of suicidal person in our time now.

Being with the family will be better than to spend our time in gambling. At least, we can talk to them about everything and sometimes, we will have an idea to do something that we forget before. And if you feel that you are addicted to gambling, maybe staying with your family will give you a chance to reduce your time in gambling, and I think they will help you to find out a way to cure the addicting.

We are in March and it is PROBLEM GAMBLING AWARENESS MONTH
https://www.ncpgambling.org/programs-resources/programs/pgam/

Educate yourself about the negative factors that come with gambling
1 out of 50 people deal with this addiction which leads to high risks of divorce and bankruptcy.  Gambling addiction has highest suicide rate then any other addiction also

the problem is Most of gamblers that becomes addicted are the people that has low bond in their family or those problematic about their family's
what?hows it?you mean things that let us remember gambling?lol as if i can bring SLOT MACHINE in my house .
you know what?addict cant even accept that they are addicted so how can you expect them to at least do such things?
hope someone will really take your advises since gamblers prefer hiding that exposing themselves .

I agree that you should consult experts to cure addiction, you can do all self-help BS advice and it won't do a thing trust me. Trusting that you will be rehabilitated by professinal will surely help you in the long run. You may think about your family but that is the reason that you are gambling. Probably you have domestic problems that made gambling your safe haven. I advice you guys out there sometimes it is not the addicts fault that he/she is still an addict the closer the intervention to home the better to prevent taking drastic measures.

Talk them out to quit gambling, that's the best a family member can do. Discuss the things that tou feel you are having trouble to talk with (i.e. domestic problems that I don't want to elaborate because they vary from home to home). Family is the first one that can cure and they are also the first that can prevent. Change the atmosphere of your household that might be the reason there is a gambling problem looming your family member, eat together at dinner and talk with each other, it is a cliche but I will say it anyway., communication is the key. Tat's the advice I can give, I hope if you read this, it helps you or helps someone you know.

Open and honest communication with your loved ones really does matter. So they will fully understand where you're coming from and know how to help you in return. Because they might be also the reason why you are addicted in gambling, that you are avoiding problems that have long been recurring within your family. If they are willing to help and support your change, they may change also along with the process.

It was easy to say that we can escape from addiction but then, it is really hard to do it.
We cant say that there is no chance of being untied into addiction but of course, it needs to work hard on it and most probably it takes months (not days) before we are finally out from the circle.

One thing that we must have to escape from addiction is by having a strong will to stop gambling forever. Perhaps, it will hard for the first time or first month, and that is why we always need to remember or keep in mind that we must stop gambling. That will not be hard if we have someone or some people who will always remind and telling us about stopping from playing gambling. They can ask you to do something new for yourself, and always keep you busy to do that thing, so you don't back to the thing about gambling in your free time.

Not just days, we are talking years here. Despite you realizing that you are already addicted, despite you prioritizing other things than gambling, you will never get that out of your system. Gambling will be a part of your life, and to get that out is something like stopping yourself to pick your nose or to clean your years (IK, that's weird but you get the idea). Addiction is not a joke, and it is not something that we could just take lightly.

              I'm quiet baffled because of this first point. It's because I have met someone before, he has a loving parents and they have strong bond with his family, but still he was addicted to gambling such as car races and cockfight. As i was thinking maybe because it is all due to his friends who influenced him. I  don't really think that family sometimes plays a big factor in gambling, maybe sometimes due to your environment and your pals who kept on pushing you to do those things can cause something like addiction. Sometimes curiousity really kills a person.

Those ways are very helpful to those addicted in gambling. But some are being so hard to do that especially if they are so addicted in gambling maybe they can't stop it easily but their realise that they are getting worse in gambling. So I think this a good idea to post your helpful opinion how to recover from being addicted in gambling.

Gambling addiction is all about interest am commitment , most times it differs in different people. I had to take my mind off it and stop contacting anything that has to do with it. I forgot all my losses and turned a new life. Since then I haven't gambled. Even though my friend try to get me back to it but I have made a solid decision not to go back not even now.

Although it is hard to recover, it doesn't mean that they have no chance. That's why in the list, OP advised visiting experts or professionals for a better result. I'm pretty sure that they will have a chance to recover if the addicted gamblers have good supports from their family, friends, and experts or professionals.

I think there is only one thing that is most important in this case is about awareness in yourself because with you have awareness, then surely you will have a wiser mindset not to spend a lot of your time and money in gambling so, gambling will not make your life ruined and you will not be a dangerous gambling addict.

Despite the importance of it, a lot of people don't have it. Most people these days are not like in the past where they have time to reflect what they've done, usually, they just do things they wanted to do, things they know they will have fun. Depressed, sad, tired, uncontented are the common reasons why they are gambling and still, they are not aware that they are being sucked in with gambling and they can't get out. I am not saying that all of them are like that but we should be really careful.

What if there are gamblers who doesn't got support from anybody, will they have the possibilities to overcome it? I think those advise from experts isn't enough to cope up this certain thing. Because in the first place, an addicted person has to deal with it emotionally. Most of the issues is with financial battle as they all hope for lucky wins to solve their problems.

Divorce ,Bankruptcy and Suicide also those 3 is mostly the outcome of being addicted as what the world problem says.

Gamblers usually lose Family because of addiction followed by Taking their own life being desperate for not having money to pay debt .

Lucky that in your country there is a Month for Gambling Awareness ,how i wish we will be having same thing here because we have also higher percentage of crime causes of drug and gambling addiction.

If someone is already addicted it is difficult for the individual to make a stop in that person's addiction, the same thing for the heavy gambler.

Before I give one example, it's good to see the meaning of addiction itself, what the addiction says;


For example in general:

Someone wants to stop gambling, if you want to do it especially if you are addicted to alcohol, tobacco, try to do this first, if you succeed, I'm sure you can also consider stopping gambling on yourself.

Reason: addicted to alcohol, tobacco, the more severe the two, that is, if you succeed in quitting smoking and alcohol, You are very easy to stop gambling, but if you cannot stop both of these elements from yourself, never try to stop gambling, if you are a heavy addict in the world of gambling, try to ponder my words.

how can someone stop gambling, to stop morokok and alcohol alone can't, what's more gambling.

Heavy gambler and an addicted gambler are somewhat the same since they are both addicted into it and stopping gambling for them are really hard and there are many things that you need like family help, experts in mental things, discipline etc.
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There are many ways to recover from being addicted to gambling and most of them are already stated here. Now the problem is not all of the gamblers can do it for some reasons. Yes we can say that our family will be a big help in recovering but what if we don't have any family members near then it will be hard for the gambler.

As @YOSHIE said, if you can stop doing things that you are already addicted with like liquor or cigarette addiction then it will be easy for them to stop gambling. In the end, it will be go down to how discipline you are and how strong your willpower is. If you really want to stop then you will do everything to stop and vice versa.

Most effective way to recover will be to be determined to stop gambling yourself. Addiction is a disease and should be treated with serious caution. Like other addiction (like the like of drug, alcohol addiction etc), the gradual reduction in their intake can be reference when dealing with gambling addiction. You should limit yourself in both the time and fund you spend gambling.

Assuming you spend hours gambling or thousands of dollars, it should be reduced to minutes and hundreds of dollars respectively until you can finally declare yourself free from gambling addiction. Don't rush the process, it's a gradual process so give it time.

Definitely. It is a serious problem among gamblers. Every party should contribute to support the way to recover the addicted gamblers. Not only their family but they also need helps from their close friends, experts, and neighborhood. If the addicted gamblers have been at a severe level, they must visit professionals or experts of mental health regularly.

That could work for those that are not addicted to gambling so they develop the discipline to only gamble when they have enough funds to do so, but for the person that is addicted to gambling such a thing will not work since he does not have the self-control necessary to pull it off,  besides it can be argued whether or not an addicted person will even think of something like that as most of them do not think they have a problem, the best thing to do is to receive professional help and for the most part to avoid the temptation to gamble again.

Yeah, nice points you got there. But, you really need to put the fourth point on the top. You can't just magically start focusing on your friends/family and recover yourself from gambling addiction. For this to happen, you will need professional help. Those professional will advice you on how to recover from gambling addiction. They will guide you on a proper way without causing any kind of harm to your life.
Realizing that they are addicted to gambling is actually the first step of recovering from gambling addiction.

Realistically, nearly all of this requires a significant amount of willpower to implement.

Sometimes an addiction doesn't need to be cured, because the damage is either minimal or trivial, whereas other times it does need intervention but the person lacks the willpower/resources to do so.

I recommend that anybody who has suffered serious financial detriment because they are unable to control themselves should implement time locks on their funds.

Time locks, remove access to your funds (hand it over to a trusted third-party) and develop coping strategies for when your urges begin to kick in.

Sometimes, addicted gamblers don't want to tell their family or friends because they don't want other people to know about their addiction. But somehow, their family can know that something has been happening to that person because they can see what he did every day closely so they can guess that person might get addicting to gambling.

Visiting professionals will help that person to solve the problem, but it will better if he can visit with his family so his family can know what they need to do to help that person. Having another activity is necessary to distract his mind from thinking about gambling so he can slowly leave gambling.

Nice advises but for me this all has been given here for so many times but still gamblers become addicted more since it is their choice no matter what we do to help them out.

Because it is them whom will decide if what their future heading we are only here to advise but its their call.

Yes and being a close family also means you will always have someone around you to talk with you and you don't get spare time to spend in gambling and that is one reason why families where the father goes to job and the mother goes to job and the children are alone they always feel alone and are more prone to gambling and other addictions. Another point that will amaze you is that, single child has more chances of such addictions because if he/she has a sibling then they would always talk to each other and such addictions are less common.

Once you are actually addicted though, there is only one solution and that is to visit a proper mental healthcare and get yourself proper treatment because once you are into gambling no family can save you if your addiction is severe.

its actually easy to defeat that addiction , what will be the important things you do?

Forget to play instead make it your family as your priority have bonding time with them instead of using your time playing. Make other habbit that can make you happy with your family not with your self alone.

Yes, they decided that too. But if the addicted person to gambling is someone that we know very close, I think we need to show to him that being addicted cannot make them get the money from gambling. They will only add more problems to their lives without they see a chance to solve the problem itself. We need to make them realize that what they did is wrong, and we need to help him to stop gambling and cure the addiction. I am sure that one day, they will realize the wrong thing that they already made, and they will want to solve the problem.

I think it depends how deep is your addiction. Sometimes its easy to said than done to stop and focus on your family instead. But there are type of gamblers who cant control themselves anymore and this kind of gambler need a professional help and a support from family. Knowing the risk and possible consequences if you're a new gambler is a must to prevent yourself from being addicted.

As a former addicted gambler who is still very much paying for it I can tell you that it is mind over everything..

Stop chasing that high, stop chasing that loss. Gambling isn't a means of making money, but rather an expensive form of entertainment that can cost you hundreds or thousands of dollars.
When you step back and realize that chances are you are going to lose, that that high of winning will eventually come to an end at a great financial cost, you realize it isn't worth it.

As someone who understands how these gambling games work, and the mathematics behind them, in the short term you can win, long term you will always lose. That is how the math works.

Ask yourself this before you bet: Is winning a bit of crypto in the short term worth losing it all and feeling like shit in the long term?

If the person is genuinely want to get away with this then I think everybody will support him/her as nobody would like their own person to get into gambling and spoil their own life. Only thing is that one should not be cheating that on one side show as if not into gambling anymore and on other side continue to gambling beacuse once this is known then no one will believe that person and no one will even care to help out to overcome from such addiction .

I agree to that, people who loves you will support your will to step away from gambling. Those people around you will be there to help and assist
you to whatever stake that you needed them.
Recovering is not from other people but it's needed to be in your own self decision. the will to quit and the help by those who supports you will be
enough to removed you from this addiction.

Unfortunately, if you are in the situation of trusting gambling too much because you already win a decent amount, losing isn't an easy thing to accept. You might really bet more than your limits and merely your personal decision would not help you stop it but you might need an outside intervention to simple remind you that you could lose allot in gambling.

So to those who have their family members really IN to gambling, a simple reminder to limit their bets would really help. As our goal is to earn and to keep our family being separated.

I'm not really gambling too much, but I have read allot about being addicted in gambling that is why I always limit my bets to amounts that I am okay or I can afford to lose.

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There are many ways to recover from being addicted to gambling and most of them are already stated here. Now the problem is not all of the gamblers can do it for some reasons. Yes we can say that our family will be a big help in recovering but what if we don't have any family members near then it will be hard for the gambler.

As @YOSHIE said, if you can stop doing things that you are already addicted with like liquor or cigarette addiction then it will be easy for them to stop gambling. In the end, it will be go down to how discipline you are and how strong your willpower is. If you really want to stop then you will do everything to stop and vice versa.
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No matter what type of addiction one has, it is really hard to get out of its charm. One needs rehabilitation along with full time support of family. I strongly believe that one has to take measures in the beginning of gambling regarding gambling addiction by limiting money and time rather than waiting for getting addicted.

The way I stop or recover from gambling is to think of finances, because I imagine how much money I wasted playing gambling. With that I will start to realize and try not to play gambling again. although this method does not work right away, because indeed we must fight not to play gambling.

Everyone has their own way of dealing with problems to stop playing gambling.

This is the method I am using in order to not be dragged into gambling addiction. Everytime I am playing gambling games, I do make sure that I would limit myself on an amount, for example $200 for that day, twice a week, if I would reach that limit, I made it a habit to stop and do other things. But this is not that easy, especially if you have huge loss, there will be an urge to again play in order to regain the loss, which is something to be avoided if you would be using this method.

It is another thing if you are already addicted into it. Professional help would really be a huge thing. Also, support and attention from your love ones. It won't be easy being on such condition because it is 'urge' that you would battle, meaning, you are depriving yourself from the satisfaction, gambling is giving to you.
As I have said, it is not that easy. It would undergo a process, little by little. One won't be able to get over gambling addiction in an instant. But I do agree that oneself would be the one that would make a change for themselves, it is a matter of choice. No matter how huge the support is, if that person won't do something about it, then nothing would happen.

It ain't a problem for me since I know when to stop.

I just bring the money which I like to gamble and after all of it is gone then I will just walk away. Maybe I will back next week or a couple of weeks.
If I win though then it will be a different story.
I could go way long into just playing the game specially poker.
My longest play is like 8 hours straight. Just changing seats if I get bored with my past table.  ;D

It's not possible once you are into gambling since you don't want to spend time with family, I have been into addiction earlier so I know how it feels being into gambling since you will always feel like you are alone in the world and you just need more money to gamble and win big once and leave gambling, which we all know never happens.

The only way to recover from gambling is actually shame yourself by either telling your parents or friends that actually helps a lot because you get support from them and you also feel down like I would never gamble again.

Also depends on what level of addiction you are suffering from because if it is just an urge to gamble and you bust a few coins that's not a big issue and can be easily sorted by getting a job or something that consumes your time. But, if your addiction levels are higher and you feel like gambling is everything to you and everything else is just not as important than surely you are into some serious problem and the addiction will only grow more dangerous as time passes.

You must either visit a doctor or if you have a friend or family member whom you feel you have a bond with, then just discuss with them about how much you have lost and maybe they can help you realize how much you are loosing not just money but time and resources.

I learned about neuroscience and also meditation..  we were taught to control the mind, addicts (gambling, sex or other) are people who are unable to control their minds.  there is also one more way, namely, by the following hypnotherapy, the addict is hypnotized and then given a suggestion to reduce or even stop gambling..  strengthen your resolve, if you want to let go of your gambling addiction because you yourself are the owner of your body and mind.

Meditation can be a way for people to control their minds, but that is not as easy as it says. I tried by myself to meditate, but I need time to get focus and controlling my mind. I feel that meditation can make ourselves calm, and we can think about something without a rush. I heard that hypnotherapy needs special skills to hypnotized person so the effect will work for them. The way to recover from the addiction to gambling will not hard if we have a strong mind to leave gambling forever.

Yes I read something about this in one book and it's highly recommended for those who want and very determined to stop gambling it's effective to the majority of the gamblers and I think there are pieces of evidence the success ratio is higher to those who are determined to stop gambling its part of the healing package of some professionals.

it will work depend on the person, if you can make your family as your main priority then you can do it. Having a bonding time will make your mind busy and forget doing what your normal do in playing.

The secret is how you became busy doing other things than gambling.

Besides all of this it is very important to keep your eyes open and not fall into another activity that could get you addicted to it, some people have personalities that are disposed to get addicted to many different things so even if you do not gamble and you overcome gambling addiction it will be for nothing if you become addicted to something different like video games, so it is very important to be vigilant about your behaviour especially since those trying to leave their addiction behind them will be very vulnerable to fall into the habit once again.

I don't know how to work or not, but indeed hypnosis is one way to get into the thoughts of the person concerned. But for me, the way I often do is fight ourselves and think logically. Thinking about what will happen if we continue to play gambling and throw away our money, I keep thinking about this. so I realized gambling addiction was a bad thing indeed.

Make ourselves aware that playing gambling excessively will be bad for our future and harm our family. If we have this perception, then it is easier to recover from addiction. Some people are hard to recover because they don't admit that they are already addicted to gambling and they think addiction isn't something dangerous. Yeah, they don't think logically.

Not everyone does this kind of strong intellectual. They are having difficulty to conquer it because their minds can't concentrate and only thinking of the same thing and that is to take back their money, their losses and everything. When someone does have this thinking, it's very hard for him to think logically because he's already straightminded and it's difficult to stop them unless they finally realize that it's not making them better in the long run.

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There are many ways to recover from being addicted to gambling and most of them are already stated here. Now the problem is not all of the gamblers can do it for some reasons. Yes we can say that our family will be a big help in recovering but what if we don't have any family members near then it will be hard for the gambler.

As @YOSHIE said, if you can stop doing things that you are already addicted with like liquor or cigarette addiction then it will be easy for them to stop gambling. In the end, it will be go down to how discipline you are and how strong your willpower is. If you really want to stop then you will do everything to stop and vice versa.
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It's not good to ignore your family just for gambling but we should try to give both equally time as when you feel like gambling then gamble and when the time to spend time with family then spend your time with family. So addictions are not good for anything it can spoil our mental relaxation and will make us think all the time only about gambling.

One of the best things we have today is gambling because by this we can now make a lot of earnings that we can use to our selves to makes more earning because by just having a good time to play at the same time we are earning a lot of profit. Sometimes we cannot say that the win all the time we are gonna win our games but some of them are still having consistent of earning but there are few people have their own luck because they lost their money a lot. Some of them having some recovery with the help of their taking some rest to make more chances to decide about the things they do before they will make a new game to make more earnings. But it takes a lot of time to recover for having the mistake we made still always be optimistic

Online and real life gambling addiction has a great impact to oneself. Some people tend to be addicted to either one or both of the fore mentioned activities.

The list you provided can indeed help those personalities totally consumed by gambling. Focusing on family and friends can really help and be a diversion for those addicted in gambling. They also play a big part in emotional support by supporting and encouraging someone in slowly withdrawing from his/her addiction in it. I also agree that jotting down notes about its effect to someone’s life can help someone recover little by little because he/she can reflect. Reading and searching can make an impact as well so that they would know the repercussions of what they’re doing resulting to leaving their bad habit. I also agree that addiction should be addressed well because it’s a serious matter that’s why they should seek professional help.

Above all the things you listed I totally agree with, I believe that someone should accept first and totally admit to themselves that they’re addicted in gambling so that they could help themselves. Denying it won’t help. Admitting it and totally thinking you need to help yourself and you need assistance from other people to recover is the key to successfully beat gambling addiction.

In the past few years many addict players who already tried to stopping gambling they find ways or create their own to itself but it's not work some of them only are success to stop being addicted in playing gambling games.

They have a lot's of ways or possible that can gamblinh addict players can folllow so they minimizing playing but the true ways that a player can always need is comits of what they really do because most of them are only promising but they did not do.

Family plays a big factor if you want to recover from gambling, our family is our motivation why we are working hard and why we are savings for the future, we get lost sometimes but our love for our family will always get us back to our senses and responsibility if you have a strong bond with your family you can overcome all obstacles.

 I think this corona will set a lot of people back on addiction because everyone is isolated at home and they have nothing to do, they don't go to work and they they are basically stuck at home. So of course a lot of people will be working at home and they are totally focusing on gambling by the looks of it which is why there will be a lot more people gambling, and there would be some people who recently quit or maybe quit a bit ago that will relapse and start gambling again.

 Hopefully this won't take too long and we will once again go outside, the more we stay inside the more addictions will get worse, not just gambling but other ones as well and that is why it is risky, think of all the people who needs to go to therapy who can't because of it, people who go to psychologist and so forth, basically all have to stuck at home and can't get the help they need.

From experience: a gambler can adjust himself or herself from being addicted if he or she can control their mindset and not the otherwise. Many have be addicted because of the lack of self control in their gambling life, i had a friend who was addicted to betting and this continued with the victim until he was able to apply a self control on the gambling. This actually helped him to get over the addiction for a very long time. Recovery from gambling addiction can be achieve when the addicted victim is determine to get over the addiction, hence, there's no possibility of any addicted gambler to escape the net of addiction.

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Not sure it is already a recommended way of getting rid off gambling addictions or how many people will agree to it but I am sure it must be an easiest way to divert your focus off the gambling so that you may start staying away from gambling which will easily help you to recover from gambling addictions.

Gambling addiction just need your focus to make it more severe whereas if you get engaged with some other thing which requires all your attention then you can easily deviate your focus. It will definitely work for boys and not sure about girls because I have experienced in real life and just talking from my own experiences.

Yes a strong determination is the key for gambling addicts to control everything because to recover from addiction will not succeed if they do not have the desire or great determination to change everything. There is a lifestyle that basically can change a person, so by changing the lifestyle to be more active in a social activity and other activities is also a way that can be done for those who want to recover from their gambling addiction.

That's the problem with people who are already attached to this problem, after getting lots of time inside their house they can easily turn their back to again play the games they wanted to play. Addictions to this activities needs a broader help coming from your close relatives, they needed to keep you
busy to other things and not to allow you to be alone since you can just play and gamble back.

the good side is that its possible that these addiction will soon be replaced by a hobby that they manage to still do within their vicinity. going out is risky which is why i tend to cultivate the garden and will soon plant corn, eggplant and okra plants because we yet don't know when our government allow us to travel. i began to love planting.

i don't have gambling addiction but probably one solution for those with such case is to keep them busy and gradually replace their habit by something else like gardening.

If most people at home are addicted to it will be increasingly crazy, which at home is very easy to play gambling. And also if the addiction is too severe, then I'm sure the person concerned will play even more. Because it is impossible for people to survive in the house without doing anything, while the relevant hobby is playing gambling.

The pattern be used by BET365 can actually do little or nothing when it come to gambling control from an addiction, from a gambler who is adducted already. Remember that; those who are adducted to gambling does that with different gambling platforms and not just one particular platform, like you have just said.

If an addicted person gamble on BET365 and was stopped, then he or she can probably switch to another to continue the games, so, determination to stop will work perfectly for everyone out there with sincere mindset to renounce gambling addiction.

LOL, I wish everyone had that kind of interest, in my part, I am not a kind of guy who loves gardening, other than gambling, my interest is just to go out with friends and socialize with other people. Your suggestion is kinda weird for me, sorry, no offence.  ;D

In fact, it is not so important what hobby will replace gambling addiction, which has grown into psychological ludomania and prevents a person from living normally. It can be gardening computer games or archery. The main goal is to find a new hobby that can bring satisfaction and help get rid of thoughts about gambling. 

Family can really help get rid of any bad habits. I know of more than one case where the emergence of the child in the family forced a complete change in the way of life of parents. I even know some guys who were able to give up hard drugs and go back to normal.

It's optional and it's interest that will bring you something that will allow you to keep yourself busy and forget about dealing with gambling. Now is a good time to think of something that you will be able to work with other stuff which will change your path and forget gambling for good.

We have so many ways to forget gambling, gardening might not work for you but at least you know how to become busy with other things. If you’re addicted in gambling then better to seek the help of your family and I’m sure they will accept you and they will help you to get out of that cage. We can gamble but remember to always control yourself and do it occasionally.

Being addicted player i online gambling or even traditional gambling is not good to a person who like that, it's because they life will be affected for sure because they spent all money they have. They have different ways like what op give to us it is only few ways that can possible to the addicted player once they visits this thread and see the informartion they follow it and their life will be back to normal.

But if a player are really addicted I think the chance for them to recover is very low chance unless they pursue to stop it even not to stop playing but to be a normal player is okay because if you like that you can control yourself and you knows your limits.

If a guy is focused on only two things his family and his job and he has good and strong family ties I don't think he will go astray and prefer to gamble, all your advice are all good, it's worth to consider all of these but in times of needs you have your family to rely on, all the others are just back up.

Mostly people who gets addicted are those people who are risking money that are vital to them examples like savings, property or salary etc. Everybody thinks gambling can make them extra rich like what they see in the movies or success stories. That's why it created this misconception, gambling really is for adults to have fun and relaxed.

Identify first if being addicted to it resulting to earn benefits or it is resulting to bankruptcy. I'm addicted in trading and not in gambling and it benefits me so I think there is good and bad addiction. For those people that are addicted where they keep allocating big amount of money even if they keep losing, it is better if you will seek some professional health advisers such as psychiatrist. Being addicted is not something that easily remove, it really takes time to control our emotions and stop playing gambling.

Even adults are getting addicted and misconception about gambling must be the core part which leads to life threatening addiction. Gambling addictions are happening for everyone and that is not a big deal but finding out the methods to recover from gambling addiction must be the big deal in front of all of us.

I believe entertaining ourselves with some other activities will definitely cure gambling addiction because only for the people who are feeling lonely, gambling is the only way for entertaining them. When people are having other resources for their entertainment purpose except gambling then there will be let of chances for them not going for gambling more frequently. When gamblers are staying away from gambling for some period of time and not frequent to it then they can easily recover from gambling addictions.

It is a good thing for gambling addict to recover because of the crisis at this time. People don't get to gamble in some country that have corona virus outbreak where people can't use internet connection when not at home or be able to buy load for mobile devices. If a gambling addict have internet connection at home then the solution would be different.

Limiting your budget for gambling is one of the ways to recover from gambling addiction.
But if you really wanna stop then be responsible to yourself, no one can really help you but yourself. No one can help you recover and stop. So help yourself.

If you are really determine to quit out from this kind of addictions the will of quitting needs to begin inside you, even you limit yourself tendency that you'll be engaging back and play more is there inside you.
Nobody can change you up aside from  your own desire to really stay out and forget about this activities.

It is very hard to recover from any kind of addiction without any support. Your family is the best support that you can get while you are fighting the addiction. You also need will power to reject your addictions demand. I have ben trying to quite smoking for a long time but my will power has been very weak.

I am not addicted to gambling as I do not gamble everyday or quite often. I only gamble once a month or so. But, I have other addictions and I have been trying to fight them.

I am not so sure of this, for what I know when people that are addicted to something are being treated one of the first things they are told is to not enter in a relationship for some time, otherwise they are going to divert their addictive tendencies to the person they have a relationship with and this could be the start of an even more serious problem, it is better to rely on the support of our direct family to try to get over an addiction and once it is clear you are clean from that addiction you could begin a romantic relationship with someone.

This is the point I also look carefully, the humans are doing the same routine every day and expecting to leave the long-term addiction in single attempt will be a failed attempt. Depending on the geography, leaving smoking and gambling should be replaced by something else. One member also made a small suggestion but gardening is not going to give the same feelings as in roulette table throwing the chips on random numbers and waiting for the spin result.

Yes, gardening will need patience to always care about the plant, and I am not sure if addicted to gambling can do that because I think they never get that experience before. Maybe hanging out with their friends can help them to solve the addiction so they can meet other new people so they can make themselves busy. Some people do sports or bicycles with their friends once or twice a week, and if they have free time, they will call each other to gather in one place and discuss something they like.

exactly my point. its about keeping yourself occupied while you can't go outside and play inside a traditional casino. there were people who were so addicted to chess that they play against himself too. playing against himself keep him occupied but it would look like youre fooling yourself.

gardening works for me and i can see my spinach is sprouting already. if the lockdown last a year, i might have something to eat 3 months from now.

actually Our family and friends can Help us but if we are ready to accept their help because if not then no one can enter your life and the addiction will never stop.

i am once a addict thats why i know that we must be Open for others so they can find place where to start to guide us to the good part of life and not just the darkness of gambling.

Do you really believe that your list of solutions will bring changes to life of addicted gamblers? I am asking this because I have seen a lot of people have been always emphasizing about the dangers of gambling and methods to avoid gambling addictions but people are regularly getting into gambling and becoming addicted to it (we are observing them by their sharing about their gambling experience).

Addicted gamblers are known for not finding time to self evaluating about themselves and their gambling activities. This is the reason gambling addictions are always leading to big disasters. I mean that you may bring lots of solutions for addicted gamblers but none of them will be working to at least for one gambler because gamblers are too busy with their gambling and they will never think about working on any of suggested solutions.

For an addicted one, there is no limit for them. As long as they have money, they will try to gamble it until there is nothing left with him.
That is how an addicted gambler is. Its like an addicted gamer, you will spend most of your time and some of your money in playing. Same with an addicted gambler that will spend their time and money in gambling.

Gamblers must know the risk they might face before they try to gamble because as they always say, gambling is like hell and it will be hard for them to recover from it or getting out from it.
Its not that no one can really help you but aside for yourself, you might wanna seek the help of your family because they can help you and might change your mind. I don't agree with what you said that no one can help you recover and stop. There are some cases where the family of the gambler helped him to change his mindset and the end result is good. They helped the gambler to recover and to stop him from gambling.

Absolutely true, it is not easy to recover from addiction like in Gambling but there's always a way to get out of it such as your family. Make them your priority and focus to forget the mistakes you have done. But also i will just add some tips, addiction is not easy, one you could possibly do is to minimize the money you use in Gambling until you no longer do gamble. Also, let go to the past losses like money, this is one of the important thing to do when recovering from addiction. Money can cause you big problems financially and mentally, money will always come and go, you can earn it anytime because the more time you worry about it the more you are drown to the thought of it and will cause you anxiety or depression even more. Successful recovery will be effective if you are willing to help yourself in the first place.

Very accurate. Addicted people are always having a hard time to cure their addiction, because they are abusing themselves by continuously getting addicted because they thought that it is the cure, but they are wrong. If they will continue to tolerate their urge to gamble, then they will not have the opportunity to rethink and reconsider things or advices from their friends to help them from their addiction.

Cooperation is the key to achieve their goal to eradicate their addiction in gambling, even in other fields of addiction as well.

This is another serious issue but nothing could be done for this on an official level. The family must keep an eye on the addicts and since it is lockdown almost all over the world, family members can help each other in curbing their addictive desires and actions. This will help reduce addiction to large extend.

Cooperation with self will are the best tools to eliminate this addiction inside your mindset, if you are fully willing to quit away it's not hard for you
to recover. There are people who manage to move out from this problem not because of any help but first the will to quit should be the first thing
then additions of those love coming from caring relatives and friends.

I was addicted to gambling then and it is very difficult to get rid of this vice because even trying to avoid it is difficult. So it's really helpful when you have the inspiration to fight it, and this is my personal advice to get rid in Gambling Addiction

1 - Always think about your child, and see if you are giving them a good life or fulfilling your duty to them.
2- Focus on something else, try to get busy to get rid of gambling.
3 - Spend time to your family.

Really sound easy though but tell you it was totally a tough thing to do especially when you are really used to do such stuff that your body, and mind are automatically been doing it or for short it was more like a life cycle of yours. So once you get to be able on considering quitting into it, I must say that you reached the peak of getting out on the so-called problem. Because, IMO, quitting willingly wasn't an easy stuff to execute it is like resisting your favorite food lol. But anyway, it gambling isn't problem at all especially if you don't harm anybody on doing it, and you are playing fine however once you abused it, I mean your body, time and money then the problem is in your mindset now that needs to be checked, and be settled. Thus, quitting was the very best factor of getting rid into it.

This is why the first step a person needs to take to beat any kind of addiction he may have is to admit that he is addicted, an addicted gambler that does not recognize that he is addicted is never going to look for help or he will think that despite having a problem he can somehow solve it by himself, many people that are addicted are unable to do this and they need to hit rock bottom before they look for any kind of help, but by that time it is too late and even if they get better their life is most likely ruined already.

If we get addicted to gambling it does sometimes have bad effects, it can even interfere with life in real life. I strongly agree
with the tips that have been mentioned in the opening post. I will just add it, in my opinion the best solution to reduce addiction
we are against gambling by increasing religious activities according to our respective religions. I have practiced it on myself
and proven effective.

Becoming addicted has a bad effect (not just sometimes) physically and mentally. The relationship with our family are affected as well due to this addiction so as early as we can we have to think deeply and realize whats more important. The changes should start with ourself it might not easy but if you're determine to stop you can do it. Switching to other activities and have bonding with family and friends often can help to minimize our time to gamble and less thinking of it.

How can religious activities decrease your gambling activities?
Does it mean that you allocate more time to religion than gambling?
I believe that religion do not stop you from gambling or it depends on how much religious you are. Better spend time with your friends and family and get love from them.

When we talk from the outside is easy to talk about all kinds of theory but the reality is different.If these addicted persons don’t get professional help together with their family staying near them and cheering them for this big step they are about to undertake.Only in this way chances of recovery are real chances.

 Maybe I'll add willingness to those that are enumerated above. Because I believe that even though you're already seeing a way to stop or limit yourself in gambling, if you still want to gamble you'll just find an excuse and not a solution. In addition, self discipline. You will be the one to tell yourself to limit and not the other. Control your emotions. Follow what is the best for you.

agree on that,Family still and the main reason why addicted gamblers recovers and secondary is professional Help.

Our family will never leave us behind no matter what we did but please let them enter our system and never hide from them.

so many gamblers losses everything because they throw their family away and that will never bring us fortune in gambling and in real life.

Indeed, all the possible solution that you stated above about recovering in gambling are very effective, but in some aspects all of the possible solutions that we can do to prevent of being addicted in gambling are not surely effective because it will always defend on person's perspective in life. There are some addicted in gambling are attending in rehabilitation center to help them to recover it, but some people are going back again as an addicted gambler. So that there are some solution are not so effective to help an addicted gambler.

There are a lot of things and way that you can do to recover to have a huge failure to the gambling, and one of the best things to do and base on my experience is to have several days to make some thinking like after I lose a huge a lot of money after that I stop for a while for almost three days and take a rest for a while does not mind my lose and back to the hobbies I like and forget for a while after not being completed because I did not play for a day I made a conclusion about the things I have a mistake and learn for it and use this as an advantage so I do the things I learned from the mistake, also I just leave it here that the experience is the best teacher of all.

Thinking about the risks and consequences or too much gambling would make us realize that we could lose everything if we'll never control it. As for me, we should look for the best way to earn instead of risking our funds in gambling. Try to look for a stable job so you would focus on your goals. It's mind over matter so we have to take control of our emotions or else, it will be the one to control us. Keep yourself busy in other aspects of life so you will be able to get rid of gambling addiction.

I just found a very good book, skimmed the book and I'm surprised how deep the problems are for the addict.
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319624846

I think this book will be my current reading material. I'd suggest those who are gambling addict to seek for professional help, and not just follow the common sense methods.

One thing that I remember is "I can control the urge thus no problem" mentality should be changed to "it may already destroy me without me noticing" mentality.

I'll tell more when I finish this book.

Not all addicts have families. Many families turned away from them and do not want to see them.
Therefore, it is extremely important to find like-minded people who replace you with the warmth and love of the family.
It would be best if they were people with similar problems who were able to get through them and cope with them.
In this case, such a community will have something to lose, which means together they will support each other.

   But we need to have a control! Without control chances to become an addict are higher. Having control doesn't mean that you gamble
just couple hours weekly, it means you have a control over your wallet and your needs, you know how much you have and how many you
can spend for specific need. When you have a control you will not allow yourself to get into a problem, you will prevent that in the beginning.
   Happy reading, and I hope we will hear more about that book!

Looks convincing to read by all gamblers, not only addicted ones. But it seems we need an amount of money to get this book. 46,00 € for eBook and 57,19 € for softcover. However, it is always worthed as knowledge is something priceless.

Sure. For severe cases of gambling addiction, they need experts or professional help. There are some special treatments to be done and common people won't understand about it. The chance to recover isn't the same as a mild addiction, so it needs different ways and more serious treatments.

This book will be worth it if you have the addiction to that kind of level. Addiction is about self-awareness and realizing the way getting out of addiction can be possible. Try recovering with the help of yourself then if you can't do it yourself you can proceed with the help of that book, Reading that book can possibly help you realize some things that can help you recover from addiction.

Some gambling addicts undergoes prohibition or enrolling in rehabilitation services to get rid of the addiction in themselves and this has a high chance of getting the problem solved.

The idea about that statement is that often people didn't realize they already became a gambling addict. They think they are "in control," but in fact, the urge already controlled them. I understand that self-control is important; however, don't be overconfident. Check it periodically since perhaps last month, you were still in control, but today you are not.

You could always search the pirated free version of it. It's there somewhere on the internet lol.

Having Discipline - this is for me the best way to recover from gambling addiction. Having discipline includes learning how to control yourself in different situations, being patient at all times etc. etc. A undisciplined gambler always loss his money trust me. ;)

Help of the family - Aside from the 1st way that I said, your family will be a great help for you to recover from being addicted too. Instead of spending your time gambling, you can still spend your time with your family and you will spend less money on it.

Vising a pro mental and health expert - They can share an advice for you in order for you to recover from it but still, if your body doesn't want to recover from gambling addiction then it will be useless.

I think the solution to addiction is to isolate the addict in some home for addicts where there are specialist doctors on the subject. The addict needs to spend some time with other people who are addicted and talk to these people and medical experts on the subject. just like that it is possible to make a good treatment to leave the addiction. I know that a lot of people here talked about family and friends, but is it really that they already had an addict at home? as much as it hurts to say it, the best help that family and friends can do Is have the courage to put the addict in some rehab home for addicts

I think in these situations, they can use the time to isolate themselves at homes because they cannot go to gambling places. It will better if they shut down the internet access, so they don't try to browse the gambling website. This time, the family will be necessary to give attention to that person who has addicted so they can feel that their family care with them. Putting the addict into some rehab home will be the last option if the family cannot help the addict.

Our family can do much to help us avoid gambling addiction, as I have proven that once I was addicted to gambling. We always listen to their advice to us because it will benefit us especially if we already have our own families. It will serve as a lesson or a way to keep ourselves from gambling and to focus more on our family and our time. We need it for us to have control over gambling and to have limitation for it.

This shows how an addiction not only affects those that are directly involved in it, their families are affected as well, for what I know most of the time the family always tries to help the person that is addicted and when nothing works they are left with no option but to give their backs to their loved one with the hopes their rejection will eventually wake the addict up to the fact that he is destroying his life and that he needs to get professional help.

To do this, you need to have a strong connection with your family values and your family.
Often, people who are addicted, have these connections partially or completely destroyed, which does not allow them to use such a powerful resource for healing.

Nice thread mate, compulsive gamblers should read this one, there are so many addict gamblers both online gambling and real life gambling. Real lifw gambling is more familiar compared to online gambling because as far as I remember, one of my friend told me that real life gambling is much better compared to online gambling because of several reasons.

The number one ways to recover from gambling is the best way for me, our family is our strenght and power, if we have strong relationship with our family then for sure they will not let you to become addict on gambling. You wouls not think to waste your time in gambling because it is really better to spend your time with your family.

Advises are very good but the problem is Compulsive and addicted gamblers will only deny these advises and will Ignore people that tells them to stop or even control their gambling time.
they are the one that will stays on our side no matter how we treat them,i love my family and i will never let them down just because of gambling.

I highly agree with this,

Realization is what really helps up on how to wake up or recover from being addicted to gambling, especially if you lose too much. Seeing how it affects your life financially and emotionally will make you change and start to avoid gambling little by little.

most addicts yes because they tend to foccus more on thier addiction but some addicts realizes that they are doing it wrong  and will seek out help for other people or on thier own parents/family members  .

  i was once going to becoming addict that i was looking to pawn my own items because i want to go back paying for my loss but i was still thinking twice and i ask advice from my wife  .  she helped me ease those feelings  resulting for me to calm down and play safer on my next gambling session  .

I agree! Those would be the steps a gambling addict needs to begin a frank recovery. Self-control is also the most important of all the measures that will be learned to improve their quality of life and those of their loved ones.
I have heard that gambling addictions are due to many factors as well as deficiencies that the individual tries to fill with gambling addiction.

Isn't addiction meant to have a dependency desire from what was originally for fun. If you continue gambling, it means you can't get rid of your addiction completely, it can only control your emotions when the addiction comes back.

True, help yourself to fight against this addiction. Gambling addiction is manageable unlike other addictions. If one wants to recover from being addict he or she should follow some steps that will help him or her completely to quit gambling and fight being addict. Here are some tips I have, first is to talk to your family. Tell them that you have a problem with your unhealthy gambling and became addicted to it. Second, limit your money, it is very important that you have money management to start with. This will help you to lessen losses. Also, have self-discipline and self-control also try to minimize going on physical or online casinos. Try to think other activities that will help you to get your mind out of gambling even for a while, trust me a little steps counts as big help. If you still not satisfied for the outcome better seek for a counseling or support session these will help you to build self-destructive patterns and addresses some issues you still have on gambling. Medication might help you for mental health condition or disorders. Lastly, change your lifestyle. A great recovery become successful if you help yourself and focus on your purpose.

Having no self-control whether you are following a good certain guides, you will not conquer yourself and it won't help you. You can agree to what the list is saying but during the applications, you'll find it hard to conquer the addiction. The help must start from you, from within, because all of that advice, you just have to follow but if you keep on doing nothing and you are losing your control. Those tips are useless and not helpful to you.

I agree from what you've said, but let me add a bit. Yes, it's needed for those addicted in gambling to be put inside a rehabilitation center for treatments, medications, and counselling especially those who are hardcore addicted to it. However, they must address it slowly. The gambling addict must first willing to recover and already accepted his condition that he needs help from other people. Otherwise, he/she will not totally recover.

The encouragement and moral support from their loved ones matter too to boost their willingness to recover. Then that's the proper time for them to go to rehabilitation facilities to talk and be medicated by the experts. It's also true that it will be beneficial for them to talk to other patients undergoing treatment for addiction whether it's the same case or not, so they could get an insight and learn a lesson or two that could also motivate them to quit and surpass their addiction.

If you are addicted on gambling its really bad for your mental and physical health. so, you need to recover yourself from it as soon as possible. The first thing you need to do quit gambling is to prepare yourself mentally then you can go hangout with friends, it will keep you away from gambling. Again, if you have enough money, you can go for a tour. Trust me, if you are starting to travel in different sights then you will forget to play gambling. 

I agree but there is a small difference between the poor and rich gamblers. The poverty leads to gamble with the last cent and healing process will slow down if the person has no interest to go outside due to the lack of money. Rich gamblers don't care about the amount of loss, and they can throw away the stress in the parties. No fair conditions for every gamble addicted.

   Danslip I think that difference between poor and rich gamblers is very big, huge! Not just in gambling way, in many other ways too.
About one more thing you are wrong, rich gamblers and poor gamblers goes to different casinos, so rich person goes in casino where
stakes are high, poor people are going to a casino where stakes are low. If you play with huge money you can lose all that money in
day if you are playing with very high stakes.
   

It finds myself very hard when you are in that stage (addiction) to get out from the hell. And the one thing that could help to heal that addiction to work for another stuff in order to have no time to go to the casino but rather to spend on our job. But fo course, it can't be an instant...The healing process may take for a while until we finally control ourselves from being addicted.

You must know there are some drugs that can help you to fight your gambling addiction. I don't remember their exact names but serotonin reuptake inhibitors, opioid antagonists, and mood stabilizers are used for that.

Drugs have side effects on your health right? Tho, it's a great use to avoid compulsive gambling.
Here are the possible outcomes of those drugs:

• dizziness, loss of coordination, fatigue, tingling, burning, blurred vision, insomnia, and vivid dreams.

The best solution is to ask for help on your family, they're the ones that might help and give you a lot of attention so you can get over on gambling addiction. Sooner or later, you'll realize the main problem and will understand the situation you're facing. Antidepressants are also applicable but should be taken moderately to avoid side effects.

The realization of being addicted to gambling is necessary but it is not everything, there are many people out there that know they have a problem and yet they keep gambling, after that the most important thing is the will to change and to look for help, unfortunately as we know many of those that are addicted to gambling are predisposed to this due to their personalities so many of them will become addicted once again as they do not know how to live their lives without gambling anymore.

I think the 4th point will be the most effective solution. because points 1-3 will not be useful if someone's psychic is still disturbed by gambling addiction. I have a friend whose life only thinks of gambling. even when he hung out with friends he always cheered about gamblers. because according to him gambling is a part of his life.

If the level of addiction is really high, it's best to have someone who have a broad knowledge in terms of mental disorders, this level of addictions
already needs to cater by professional experts. The balance should be returned both mentality and physically, if there's supplements that needed to
be taken in order to lessen the minds of those addicted gamblers to think more about gambling it will be discuss by experts who understand well
about this problem.

As far as I know, one of the rather useful and effective methods is to plan your day in such a way that there would be no free time in it.
Thus, you will always be busy with something, and will not fall into obsessive states because of boredom, which is quite difficult to fight when you are addicted.

The simple thing is if you want to quit gambling addiction, I think it's enough to just focus on the intention or desire to stop gambling, because if someone has become an addict, at least any advice given is difficult to make them change their mindset. So, something that they can recover from gambling addiction is themselves but indeed, at least other people around will also slowly influence it for a change.

According to me if a person wants to get away from gambling then he should get indulged in different activities that don't remind him of gambling. As he won't be remembering gambling then he won't be getting an urge to gamble and also that if he is suffering from an addiction then he can't just stop in a single day, it's a gradual process that takes time and many people aren't patient enough to do so.

That is what I want, becoming busy will help to be out from thinking about it. I believe this addiction will stop if we want a change but those who don't, they'll be dying to be like that.

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And I believe what finaleshot2016 said...our family advice is a big influence and could certainly giving us help in order to stop this kind of mindset. This is not a drug addiction that is really hard to find a cure.

Nice post mate, this will be very helpful for gamblers addict, I know most of the gamblers want to change their lifestyle, they want to do some productive things compared to gambling but do not know how to start. Well doing it will require time and determination, removing your addiction should have step by step, if you are playing everyday then, you should limit yourself from betting, atleast play alternate days, play now, stop tomorrow, because if you stop it so quick than it will not work.

You may also use the tips stated by the OP, you may focus on your family, spending time with your family is happier compared to gambling.

Same ideas to me, you dont need a threatment you just need to be descipline from what you are doing. Make your mind busy by doing other helpful things like have a daily routine of exercise sports or even doing household. The problem about the addiction is you are enjoying doing it and in long term if you continue use to it it will become addiction.

I agree that one of the ways to recover from addiction is by getting a new habit or activity to make the addict busy. But you know, it is not applicable to all addicts. In a serious case (severe addition), he needs an expert or professional health treatment besides supports from family members and friends. To change the gambling habit isn't as easy as you think. He needs special treatment and must be handled by a specialist. Also, this will take time to recover his mindset and grow his self-control.

I think we can use the words committed and motivated. At the moment the gambler already realized he is a compulsive gambler, nothing's changed. He can still continue gambling. I think the compulsive gambler should come to a point where he is already committed and motivated to change. He already understand the damage he have done to his family. This is the time they will ask for help, and sure, some will fail, but as long as they are committed and motivated to change. They will always try stop. It will be a long process, temptations will always get them, but the motivation to stop should always come back.

First those who are addicted cannot think what is correct and what is wrong. That's why they are called addicted. They should first consult any doctor or counceler who can guide them and make them realize what mistake they are doing in gambling. Excessive gambling can also lead to this addiction.

They need to assess themselves with the help of professional. Because they need to address the root cause of why they are being addicted in gambling. The reason why they got into gambling in the first place and addicted with it. If they can't address the root cause, it would be hard to totally remove the desire of the person from gambling. He will go back again and again.

Getting addicted on one thing is very hard. This doesn't apply on gambling only but even in other things like playing games.

It is very hard for the gambler to recover if he is addicted already into gambling but that doesn't mean that it is impossible for him to recover. There are some other ways for a gambler to recover from gambling.
 - seek professional help (mental experts/psychologists)
 - seek help with your friends/family
 - put yourself into a mindset where you really want to recover from it and if I say recover, it means that you will not gamble anymore.

These 3 aren't hard to achieve but it will take time to achieve the total recovery from gambling addiction so include patience on it if you really want to recover.

Thinking and calculating how much you have totally lost in gambling might give you a knock in your head if you truly want to recover from your addiction and quit gambling.

There are several methods and you have to choose what's the most comfortable for you.

Agree, it's important to investigate the root cause because it affects the level of healing, motivating yourself and counseling with professionals will quickly help you undergo healing from gambling addiction.

 I think family plays a big role as well for people to realize their mistakes as well. If you are not really doing very well and have a problem and you do not realize it yourself, maybe there should be some people around you who love you and care for you, those people could tell you that you have a problem as well. I know that most of the time it will not work, when you have an addiction you will not listen to anyone and you will do what you want to do without caring about anyone else, however if you have people who love you and try to help you, that might help just a bit, or maybe not help everyone but some people may get better response to it? I don't really know the role of family in these matters but I am sure it is better to have people telling you to stop than no people at all.

indeed the family can be the main role of the change but I have a number of cases around many household heads who gamble so that he does not think of his family, if it has reached this stage it will be very difficult to return to normality as a normal human being has very addicted to gambling.

maybe another step is to look directly at the losses that will be overflowed and there must be someone who is aware of himself directly from the heart and a little advice to try to be better and not addicted anymore.

It's like trying to make an alcoholic stop drinking by showing you the empty bottles he drank in his "career". :D

They say that a chain smoker uslally spends so much money on cigarettes that he could buy a new luxury car but all he gets for those money is cancer.

Addicts are self-destructive and you won't change that by showing them their past mistakes.

If one has the mind to choose one of the possible solution based on his comfort and convenience to get out of addiction, he isn't an addict. In simple terms an addict is a person who hasn't got the mind to control himself. This can be of alcoholic, smoking, gambling and various other activities.

To get out of addiction the better choice is to practice himself to have control. With anyone's intervention this isn't gonna get to a conclusion.

Anyone who will teach mental health to an addict feels difficult to really stop it.
Addicts themselves are faced with two choices between wanting to stop or continue.
If you want to stop being addicted, you really have to be determined from the bottom of your heart not to repeat it.
if none of that is done, the addiction will continue to exist.

Alcohol and cash are two different things.

You can buy as much as alcohol as you want when you have money and drink all of it getting drunk as the benefit. But it's painful to watch that you are losing money and count it all of your life how much you have lost instead of saving.

I guess an addicting gambler will continue to gamble as they don't see their reason to stop unless they faced a dead end. What the gambler scare to stop gambling is making the first step to stop gambling. They will feel something lost from them, and they think it's too tough to do that. If they have someone that can remind them, that will be a good thing for that gambler to try to stop gambling.

It is simple to cure addiction in gambling. You need to become poor. Poor in what sense? You should do whatever it takes to stop gambling. Because as long as you are free to bet, no matter how you want to stop betting, you will not be able to do it, you need someone to force you not to bet, or the other way around which is to limit your bet starting from the amount you usually bet, and reducing it over time. This is like the way how to cure addiction to smoking, till you reach the day when you will not experience the fun in gambling because your bet amount is too low.

Want to get out of addiction does not mean you want to quit gambling and not all types of gambling cause addiction right? An addict must move from the addiction zone. Start by choosing a new type of gambling that doesn't require you to continue any longer.
I think sports betting is the right zone, where bets are only made once in one match (or several times when considering rounds, etc.). All gamblers will stop when the match is over. There are no more bets.

Definitely professional help. Without getting any professional help, doing something in this magnitude is not really possible. Can you slow down? Can you stop for a while? Sure you can, but eventually you may end up relapsing and doing again. I know this from myself, I have quit gambling god knows how many times and eventually came back, quit again and come back.

Thankfully those quitting periods takes longer and longer these days and that is good, the longer I don't gamble the less I can hurt my finances but I always go back to gambling eventually no matter how long I give a break. However if you get professional help, they will know the right steps to take for quitting and they will help you much better than you can because they know the path hundreds of people took to quit, you only know your own path.

Some of them don't want to go to the professional because they think that they don't addict. And many of them are back to their habit and make themselves busy with their addiction. That is why they need someone who can watch them closely, so if anything changes from them, that person will know, and they can anticipate the worst thing. Maybe that is happening with one of our family or our friends. And if that happens, you will know what you need to do with your friend or your family.

it's easy to say but it's a very tough job to get rid of Gambling, there would be a lot of ways for this purpose but at the very beginning you have to make up your mind, I think if you think which thing may be harmful to you and your life, like smoking, people know that smoking is injurious to health but they do smoke whatever they know, in this way, people also know that Gambling is a kind of addiction, it kills his or her financial and mental state, lots of negative impact on this side so don't think too much, do just what is good for you, I think it's enough to bring a change in everyone's life.

Yes, it isn't easy to do since playing gambling already becomes a habit for some gamblers. You know, when you want to change your habits, it will be difficult to accept it. I think to recover a severe addict, we need the cooperation of various parties (the addict, family, friends, and an expert). The treatment must be more serious and specific, not the same as the treatment for the mild addict. As treatment goes on, I assume we can raise the awareness of the addict. In this case, the closest people to him (especially family), will have a crucial role.

This is not the best way to quit gambling.
Sometimes, calculating your losses lead you to gamble even more in order to recover them.
And this activity puts you in a vicious cycle that you cannot escape.

I agree with you. Actually I have tried it before where I think of a possible way to stop playing gambling, but then, calculating all the money I spend in gambling just give me a push to play just to take all my losses back. This won't actually help but will make you dive deeper into gambling.

   If you calculate all your loses and they are big all you will get from that calculation is depression.
When someone want's to quit gambling should just stop and turn to something else! If you wish to
lose less just limit yourself, never deposit big money, just small amounts, lower your bets and
gamble for fun, not to win big.
   Winning big is what drives people to lose a lot. To win big you have to bet big, and to have enough
money to try it again and again, if you don't have a lot of money with betting big you will lose fast what
you have.

seeking professional help in these cases is a must do.

but adding to that some lifestyle changes can also help a lot

going out in the sun
exercising daily
stopping to eat junk food
cultivating good and loving relationships.
talking to friends
finding purpose on life (a business? a personal project?) out of gambling.
swimming on the ocean
doing saunas.

this kind of stuff that makes life much better.
it always help, in all areas.

This is the problem if people started to gambling. There is a huge chance that they will be hooked at it and they will gamble more often until such time that it will become their habit already. This is a wrong habit because huge money can be involve with it and many negative emotions can be felt if you lose your money. That is why I don't want to gamble because I don't want that it will be my habit until such time that I will get addicted into it.

Family and the experts will be a very big help for an addicted gambler if he wants to recover.

They are great help but if the gambler himself doesn't want to recover him from gambling addiction, it will be useless. The work of these people will be worthless if the gambler doesn't really want to recover. If a gambler wants to recover, he must put his mindset into a state that he wants to recover and with the help of his friends and experts the process of recovery will be much easier :).

Correct, this also possible and it will only brings you to more depressions and it will lead you to play more in order to recover those losses.
Instead of keeping you away it will gives more aggressions to try your luck once you have money to use.
The best way is to have a self will and consider all those mistake and move forward.

I prefer to do some lifestyle changes, as you suggest. Maybe going out in the sun, talking to friends will help us to get another experience in life, and by talking to friends, we will also have a chance to meet new friends which can give more opportunities to have a new habit with them. We need to try hard to recover from being addicted to gambling. Otherwise, we will be in gambling without we know if there is still a chance for us to change.

Under any circumstances, only a conscious choice of the right path can help a person get out of a game addiction.
After all, addiction is a repeated reflex reaction worked out to be automatic.
Need willpower and a strong desire to get rid of the automatisms that were worked out to the ideal.
New neural pathways set off very slowly, so awareness and control are needed.

I do agree,
It is about their own choice if they really want to recover. There is no other way or no one can help them but only themselves. Aside from that is their realization to go back into the right path. This is their only way to get out of being addicted to gambling.

Indirectly there is a correlation with the "Suggestions for online gamblers" thread posted by Rengga Jati, I think the two threads as a whole remind about how many important things you can do for this short life. Look around you, everyone is free to enjoy life without being bound by gambling, I mean don't leave the rest of your life to gamble.

There are definitely many gamblers in the world, it means that gambling addiction is inevitable and spreading. There are many differrent ways to recover from addiction and It doesn't mean that if you recover from gambling addiction is you cannot play anymore. You can play gambling because you can control yourself now and if you don't, you have an idea to stop your addiction.

Accept your loss, keep trying to recover the lost bet amount is one of the primary reasons why people get addicted to gambling so when they accept their loss and move on it will become easier for people who are on the verge of gambling addiction.

The things here with gamblers was just addiction for me addiction could totally be remove or cure. I've seen so many people that recover from addiction it either drugs, smoking etc.

Practicing it slowly and with discipline you could easily remove addiction, but it should just all start in your self. A lot of people saying everybody want to stop doing it but they cant because they are addicted but if you really have your goals and you really want it to be remove, with enough discipline you could easily remove your addiction in gambling for example. Under many circumstances their was just so many things that is attracting us to continue being addicted that is why we don't want to have a decision to stop it.

Patience is the best method along with psychological help. Family therapies will be their best cure and drug addiction is very different than a gambling addiction. Mastering your goals and controlling yourself are the basement to beat any addiction, other extra suggestions are not as strong as the mentioned advice. Strong discipline is key to open the doors in abnormal lives, accepting the facts straight should be the first step before applying the others.

There is always a denial stage where a gambler who wants to change his life by forgetting gambling are denying that he made a mistakes and losses because of it. Overcoming the denial stage is the first step to recover from being addicted in gambling. The second step is to seek professionals like psychiatrist and psychologist or any persons that can help where he can give advices on how to overcome it. The last step is to follow their advices and tips to become successful in overcoming the addiction.

It will be easy to move forward if you do allocate budget that is spare, those who are keep engaging and keep playing because of trying to recover
is really prone into addictions, they are playing for money and most of them don't know how to set limitations both winnings and losing they are
going to continue playing all day long.

We can move on especially if we accept that we did wrong. It is a reality that it is not easy to recover from being addicted to gambling. I know many people who say that they will now stop playing gambling but now they still gamble their money and it seems that they now forget that they want to recover from addictions. There are now many lives that have been destroyed due to addiction. Acceptance has important role in order to escape the addiction.

Keep trying to recover doesn't give you have more chances to get the money because the house will love to get your money's again. You should think about yourself and the rest of the money that you still have it. When you can think wise about what you can do with that money, I guess you will quit gambling for a while, and go out from that place while you can buy something that can reduce your tension after playing gambling.

It is not easy as we say, because I am sure many people already have their difficulty time to stop gambling. Many of them still trying to stop gambling with hard because they don't want to become addicted to gambling.

Yes, it is the best thing to do, it is to move on , on what we have done wrong that makes us lose many things. But moving on is the hardest part, acceptance is very hard and yet it is the best way to get away from addiction . If you can't do it yourself, you must do it with the help of the mental health professionals.

Its all about the mindset,even people who allocated money for betting will chase it after losing so it high depends on the acceptance level of any individual.

Long streak will make you more addicted so have time limits and number of bets you are going to play along with the budget will be a good cautious move.

Well i think everyone can still recover even if they are become very addicted to gamble, the only thing to do is to put oir selves or fucos into our family, hang outs bonding take some times together and make self busy, i believe that it is all up to  us and we really need to control our emotion so that we can do think everything in a right way.

I disagree with that. (real) gambling addiction is like drug or alcohol addiction, you can't just ask your family or your friends to help you. It's naive. You have to see a doctor to cure that.

The gambler should have the source of motivation for going to the doctor and accept psychological therapy. Without the help of family, it turns out to be a one-way road for reaching the disillusioned life. In drug or alcohol addiction, the dip points are about health issues but in gambling addiction cases, gambler can go to bankruptcy.

Yes you're right there are no health issue in gambling addiction, only mental and financial ones. That's why people underestimate it and think it's not as difficult as drug, alcohol or cigarette addiction to drop it.

No one should ever chase your lose as if you will chase your lose you will always remain worried about it you give will only get tension so just relax and try to reduce your timing for gambling. You should spare time for your family and playing other games. If you feel addiction then stop for while and play later with fresh mind but never spend more mondy just to recover your previous lose.

Yeah, gambling is very similar to those you've mentioned and can't be cured easily. Mental illness is one of the most difficult to handle since it requires a lot of time to get recover. People thought it's normal to gamble since it's just entertainment but later on, they regret spending all of their money on it.

Just have discipline in yourself, it might help you to get over with gambling addiction or any mental illness. Find some recreational or physical activities that will make you forget gambling.

Just don't chase your losses no need to relax because if a gambler is chasing their money, there is no way for them to be relax especially when they are in under pressure unless they know how to calm themselves in situations like this.

Getting recovery after being addicted into gambling isn't that easy to do because you must change your mindset and reverse it from a person who always want to gamble to a person who will stop gambling. Stopping what you are doing for a long time already is very hard so it will take time to do this. Help from their family and experts is the best way to recover from gambling but they gambler himself must cooperate too and he must put his mind to a mindset that he will change himself or the process will be useless.

A determination that will drive you, a discipline to yourself. In that case you know how to control yourself in gambling. Moving away from gambling is not easy, it is like you are driving a car. When you're addicted, you speed up the car. When you want to stop, you must slow down first so you need a minute to totally stop. It is just an adjustment.

This can be different on every single person and the level of the addiction.
For example, for myself the best ways was to finding a new hobby to work on it. It's not the same on everyone

Well, you are not in the addiction level yet, that was your daily habit seeking time for gambling. Perhaps this is good if you monitor your self from possible addiction. While you are in the early stage you should aware of the outcome of gambling and it is hard to cure people who addicted to gambling. Indeed, --there are too many ways to recover from a gambling addict but for sure it will take time before that will happen.

If someone has a big problem in gambling before, I assume this is the right time for him to recover himself from being addicted in gambling due to the pandemic of the COVID-19 and lockdowns because he can easily stay away from any casino and he will now have more time to change his hobbies in exchange of playing gambling like working out everyday or doing house chores.

different people, different ways to stop it...
some can stop because of the intention and support of the family, some are stopped because of health and economic conditions, but one thing is certain that gambling addiction is different from other addictions such as drugs and sex, gambling addiction is not affecting the physical condition, so it is very easy to separate stop if support is continuously provided.

I agree. The treatment for each person can be different as they have different level of addiction, the background, and characteristic.

Support from family + people closest to them will have a big role. Even if they can recover because of other factors, family should take a part to speed up recovery. All gamblers need help & supports from his family. They must have bigger spirit with all supports from family members of close friends.

Specific reasons can increase the level of gambling addiction, we need to find the reasons and should ignore the consequences as the first priority. The family help will be the main center for receiving impulses against the emotional draining which causes heating addiction but this is my guess only. Complicated cases can be solved with making everything simple but it is not simple to accept the facts straightly by the gambler in the first place.

Tons of casinos in my area have ways where you can get blacklisted. They have a formal process that you apply for and you're banned for life from the casino property and can't place a single bet down. Some of the more established casinos online that use banking information will have a blacklist but it's a bit pointless. You can circumvent them easy and if you're dealing with a BTC gambling casino, it's literally not possible to stop someone from depositing.

I think there is no easy way to move away from gambling if you're really committed on it.

Every person have their own personality or attitude or way of thinking or have their own ways to stop gambling addiction. Every person that have in common is the determination and the reason why there is a need to avoid gambling, the drive to oneself to really avoid it. We are all correct of what ways we have given but even though we have ways, if do not push ourselves to do it, its nothing.

Family support is probably one of the best. But not only in golden advice. Gambling addicts need something more pressing to make them stop. Maybe it starts with the actions of some family members to help him not bet more or play for too long.

Of course, this desire must be conveyed first to the family to avoid feeling bad.

That is the biggest support that person can get from his family because his family will always be beside him to remind him to stop gambling. They will ask him to build a new thing that will give him a chance to forget about gambling, although it's for a while. Soon, after that person can have one thing that can make him busy, that person will not think about gambling because he is too busy to play gambling even on his mobile phone. The family can also help that person to visit some professional to help him to solve the problem. I am sure that if that person really wants to stop gambling, he will found that the help from his family will work well for him.

This is what the addicted gambler is supposed to face due to the expected hard journey towards gamble-free life. Without the family's support, the reasons will increase to give up or the person can continue to gamble, it is simple as smoking. Pressure can turn to be another side effect if not applied correctly. The professional help is essential to reach the destination, amateur job leads to unwanted results.

It is all in your head.

If you are capable of understanding how gambling is ruining your life, you'll make an easy decision. It is how I quit smoking 2 years ago and never looked back since then. I still knew I was damaging my own body while smoking but I didn't care. My excuse was I wasn't over-doing it. I started to care when the damage was starting to become visible. (I started to feel weaker)

It is the same with gambling. It is fine if gambling doesn't really affect your life in a negative way but you should definitely act when it starts becoming dangerous. If you don't act in time, then you should seek professional help.

If possible, try to resolve the issue without contacting your family because family usually creates lots of drama and make things worse.

Before that, family support, then go to the medications. I don't think it's enough to depend on your family's support because addiction could come back when that attention wasn't granted.

This is best to make all these steps so as to ensure that gambling addiction can no longer exist in their minds. Addiction is not as easy as we know and takes a lot of time to heal.