Can change of environment have an effect on gambling addiction.

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if you gamble online I don't think it will affect the environment wherever you are, but it will have an effect if you invite and teach people in your environment who have not previously gambled

if we can control ourselves, maybe we will not invite other people or close friends to play gambling. But a gambler will generally tell his winnings to his closest friends so that he is unconsciously able to influence other people to gamble. so environmental factors are the main reason someone is addicted to gambling because they will be curious about the wins that their friends get so they will try to play in the context of being curious.

so basically the environment will determine a person's fate on their nature if their environment is mostly gamblers maybe sooner or later someone will be affected by the name of gambling, but if the environment does not have gamblers I don't think it is possible that someone will fall into gambling.

[81coin]

People around make a great difference. Environment in sense of location is not as important as a society and the motivation

[uneng]

if you gamble online I don't think it will affect the environment wherever you are, but it will have an effect if you invite and teach people in your environment who have not previously gambled

if we can control ourselves, maybe we will not invite other people or close friends to play gambling. But a gambler will generally tell his winnings to his closest friends so that he is unconsciously able to influence other people to gamble. so environmental factors are the main reason someone is addicted to gambling because they will be curious about the wins that their friends get so they will try to play in the context of being curious.

so basically the environment will determine a person's fate on their nature if their environment is mostly gamblers maybe sooner or later someone will be affected by the name of gambling, but if the environment does not have gamblers I don't think it is possible that someone will fall into gambling.

Exactly. The more contact you have with something, more prone you will be to consume that for your life. That is all about the social environment of your conversations, the physical environment of your way to work which pass in front of a gambling house, the virtual environment which constantly bombards you with gambling ads and video suggestions.

Humans are susceptible to external influences and the brands or companies know how to work with this smartly to challenge, please and fascinate your mind as customer.

[wxa7115]

Exactly. The more contact you have with something, more prone you will be to consume that for your life. That is all about the social environment of your conversations, the physical environment of your way to work which pass in front of a gambling house, the virtual environment which constantly bombards you with gambling ads and video suggestions.

Humans are susceptible to external influences and the brands or companies know how to work with this smartly to challenge, please and fascinate your mind as customer.

Over the years marketing has gotten more and more sophisticated and as such it has become way more effective as well, human psychology has been studied formally for a very long time and those marketing campaigns are making use of it to achieve their goals.

So with this in mind it is becoming more difficult for those which have developed some sort of addiction to avoid the temptations, as not only you will see ads over the TV, but you see them everywhere, like your PC, smartphone, clothes and everywhere you go, so I think that addiction issues will keep growing over the years and there is not much which can be done about it.

[Betwrong]

~ In times when there were no TV, no internet and no radio, someone put on a desert island would probably stop gambling, even though he was a gambling addict before. But these days it's practically impossible to isolate yourself from the world. If you choose to stop gambling, you should not gamble even in the midst of a busiest casino in Las Vegas.

The technology keeps you near from anything, online gaming is just a click away from you if you still have internet access, even you change your environment in terms of locations but if you still have access with the digital world it still not easy for you to quit gambling. A case to case though, since there are people who really wanted to free themselves from gambling, they will do everything to succeed.

Self-will is always the prior factor that will send you away from this vice and you will be able to maximize your resources in finding alternative ways to distract yourself from thinking about any gambling activities.

I agree with everything you said except using the word "vice" here. Vice, by definition, is immoral or wicked behaviour. There's nothing immoral or wicked in gambling, unless you gamble with someone else's money.

People around make a great difference. Environment in sense of location is not as important as a society and the motivation

Yeah, but that's what OP meant by "environment", I'm pretty sure, the people around.

[madnessteat]

Exactly. The more contact you have with something, more prone you will be to consume that for your life. That is all about the social environment of your conversations, the physical environment of your way to work which pass in front of a gambling house, the virtual environment which constantly bombards you with gambling ads and video suggestions.

Humans are susceptible to external influences and the brands or companies know how to work with this smartly to challenge, please and fascinate your mind as customer.

Over the years marketing has gotten more and more sophisticated and as such it has become way more effective as well, human psychology has been studied formally for a very long time and those marketing campaigns are making use of it to achieve their goals.

So with this in mind it is becoming more difficult for those which have developed some sort of addiction to avoid the temptations, as not only you will see ads over the TV, but you see them everywhere, like your PC, smartphone, clothes and everywhere you go, so I think that addiction issues will keep growing over the years and there is not much which can be done about it.

Our data is currently being collected without our permission and sold to advertisers. If you have ever searched on your smartphone or browser for information about gambling, you will constantly receive ads with similar content. That is why it is very important if you have decided to get rid of your gambling addiction not to use your old accounts and it is better to give up the internet completely for some time.

[Reid]

Our data is currently being collected without our permission and sold to advertisers. If you have ever searched on your smartphone or browser for information about gambling, you will constantly receive ads with similar content. That is why it is very important if you have decided to get rid of your gambling addiction not to use your old accounts and it is better to give up the internet completely for some time.

I learned this after watching the popular streaming website. Whenever I watch food reviews it will extract advertisements that contains food in it.
Whenever I watch gaming and sports, it will do the same.
Now what if you had history of watching live streamers of gambling sites? It will be a big impact to the one who is trying to stop his gambling addiction as everywhere he goes there will be an ads about it.
Yes, a change of e-mail will help and maybe clearing your computer first. A hard format will do just to be safe that nothing will come back anymore.
Internet is part of our environment now. Even articles are relying to your search history about what ads will pop out.

[ethereumhunter]

Our data is currently being collected without our permission and sold to advertisers. If you have ever searched on your smartphone or browser for information about gambling, you will constantly receive ads with similar content. That is why it is very important if you have decided to get rid of your gambling addiction not to use your old accounts and it is better to give up the internet completely for some time.

I often get ads in my email or phone number even though I have never used my email or mobile number for gambling. If ever, I would use it at a trusted casino. Perhaps the data was obtained from elsewhere so the casinos could easily contact other people to join the casino. But maybe we can at least change our cell phone number or at least we have another cell phone number that we don't share with people we don't know.

[dataispower]

Exactly. The more contact you have with something, more prone you will be to consume that for your life. That is all about the social environment of your conversations, the physical environment of your way to work which pass in front of a gambling house, the virtual environment which constantly bombards you with gambling ads and video suggestions.

Humans are susceptible to external influences and the brands or companies know how to work with this smartly to challenge, please and fascinate your mind as customer.

Over the years marketing has gotten more and more sophisticated and as such it has become way more effective as well, human psychology has been studied formally for a very long time and those marketing campaigns are making use of it to achieve their goals.

So with this in mind it is becoming more difficult for those which have developed some sort of addiction to avoid the temptations, as not only you will see ads over the TV, but you see them everywhere, like your PC, smartphone, clothes and everywhere you go, so I think that addiction issues will keep growing over the years and there is not much which can be done about it.

Our data is currently being collected without our permission and sold to advertisers. If you have ever searched on your smartphone or browser for information about gambling, you will constantly receive ads with similar content. That is why it is very important if you have decided to get rid of your gambling addiction not to use your old accounts and it is better to give up the internet completely for some time.

But in another sense someone can be in internet without involving itself into any gambling platform especially casino restricting yourself with internet automatically is going to affect you seriously and I believe that internet restriction can also solve the problem of not be a part of gambling associate but the only remedy I saw towards quitting from indulging into gambling is that you can only give a break of engaging into something else that will consume almost our daily activities and also have something to keep yourself busy so that the mentality of gambling will wipe away his data of avoiding internet totally

[BobK71]

Our data is currently being collected without our permission and sold to advertisers. If you have ever searched on your smartphone or browser for information about gambling, you will constantly receive ads with similar content. That is why it is very important if you have decided to get rid of your gambling addiction not to use your old accounts and it is better to give up the internet completely for some time.

I often get ads in my email or phone number even though I have never used my email or mobile number for gambling. If ever, I would use it at a trusted casino. Perhaps the data was obtained from elsewhere so the casinos could easily contact other people to join the casino. But maybe we can at least change our cell phone number or at least we have another cell phone number that we don't share with people we don't know.

It's true that for those who want to stay away from gambling even if they don't want to play, email or phone numbers used in gambling can play an important role get back again of that particular gamblers. Whenever I wanted to take a break from gambling, various offers started coming on my mobile by notification and then I continued gambling again.

[Cling18]

Our data is currently being collected without our permission and sold to advertisers. If you have ever searched on your smartphone or browser for information about gambling, you will constantly receive ads with similar content. That is why it is very important if you have decided to get rid of your gambling addiction not to use your old accounts and it is better to give up the internet completely for some time.

I often get ads in my email or phone number even though I have never used my email or mobile number for gambling. If ever, I would use it at a trusted casino. Perhaps the data was obtained from elsewhere so the casinos could easily contact other people to join the casino. But maybe we can at least change our cell phone number or at least we have another cell phone number that we don't share with people we don't know.

It's true that for those who want to stay away from gambling even if they don't want to play, email or phone numbers used in gambling can play an important role get back again of that particular gambler Whenever I wanted to take a break from gambling, various offers started coming on my mobile by notification, and then I continued gambling again.

Yes, they will still send you updates and promotions which will only tempt you to try betting again. So it's better if you'll unsubscribe from their promotions or might as well change email and mobile number for you to totally eliminate your contacts with gambling contacts which I think is helpful. Stay away from anything that will attract you to gamble again.

[Solosanz]

Yes, they will still send you updates and promotions which will only tempt you to try betting again. So it's better if you'll unsubscribe from their promotions or might as well change email and mobile number for you to totally eliminate your contacts with gambling contacts which I think is helpful. Stay away from anything that will attract you to gamble again.

But gambling ads can be found easily now since they're already promote their casino widely, even you didn't even search that. Like how you're visiting a site about cooking or something, you will see a gambling ads. If you're watching a popular youtuber, you still see a gambling ads since he's promoting the casino. Watching a sports as example, you will see a casino name as a sponsor, it's too many and hard to avoid.

[salad daging]

Yes, they will still send you updates and promotions which will only tempt you to try betting again. So it's better if you'll unsubscribe from their promotions or might as well change email and mobile number for you to totally eliminate your contacts with gambling contacts which I think is helpful. Stay away from anything that will attract you to gamble again.

But gambling ads can be found easily now since they're already promote their casino widely, even you didn't even search that. Like how you're visiting a site about cooking or something, you will see a gambling ads. If you're watching a popular youtuber, you still see a gambling ads since he's promoting the casino. Watching a sports as example, you will see a casino name as a sponsor, it's too many and hard to avoid.

Gambling advertisements are indeed difficult to avoid because they have become widespread on the internet and have been everywhere I often see gambling advertisements as promotions they do to attract new users.
Seeing ads can't be avoided as long as we never click on them or access them. If you don't want to have an effect, just skip the ad and I'm sure you won't be tempted by any ads on social media.
Watching sports is indeed mostly sponsored by gambling, so that there are more advertisements that will not be missed every corner there must be advertisements there, but I think it comes back to each of us how we can resist if we don't want to be addicted.

[Wakate]

People around make a great difference. Environment in sense of location is not as important as a society and the motivation

Maybe you have forgotten that the environment make up the society and this can have much influence on our gambling lifestyle increasing it or reducing our urge for gambling. Gambling is a lifestyle that we need to embrace it and focus on what we want not doing what will have so much influence on our gambling lifestyle. Everybody has different reasons why they gamble so we need to work on what works for us not for others strategies blindly. The influence gambling has on us can be restructured to reduce the effects.

[|MINER|]

Can someone still develop the habit of gambling and become an addict even though no one around gambles?

Humans are social being, if others in the society are not around gambling then I think gambling addiction will not survive for long. And gambling comes from thousands of years ago, so I think some changes may come as a result of the change in environment, but it will not be possible to turn gambling off. If anyone wanna know the history of gambling please check this topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5405436.0

[madnessteat]

Exactly. The more contact you have with something, more prone you will be to consume that for your life. That is all about the social environment of your conversations, the physical environment of your way to work which pass in front of a gambling house, the virtual environment which constantly bombards you with gambling ads and video suggestions.

Humans are susceptible to external influences and the brands or companies know how to work with this smartly to challenge, please and fascinate your mind as customer.

Over the years marketing has gotten more and more sophisticated and as such it has become way more effective as well, human psychology has been studied formally for a very long time and those marketing campaigns are making use of it to achieve their goals.

So with this in mind it is becoming more difficult for those which have developed some sort of addiction to avoid the temptations, as not only you will see ads over the TV, but you see them everywhere, like your PC, smartphone, clothes and everywhere you go, so I think that addiction issues will keep growing over the years and there is not much which can be done about it.

Our data is currently being collected without our permission and sold to advertisers. If you have ever searched on your smartphone or browser for information about gambling, you will constantly receive ads with similar content. That is why it is very important if you have decided to get rid of your gambling addiction not to use your old accounts and it is better to give up the internet completely for some time.

But in another sense someone can be in internet without involving itself into any gambling platform especially casino restricting yourself with internet automatically is going to affect you seriously and I believe that internet restriction can also solve the problem of not be a part of gambling associate but the only remedy I saw towards quitting from indulging into gambling is that you can only give a break of engaging into something else that will consume almost our daily activities and also have something to keep yourself busy so that the mentality of gambling will wipe away his data of avoiding internet totally

I personally believe that absolutely anyone can overcome gambling addiction and the one who says he wants to quit gambling because it ruins his life but can not do it simply does not have such a desire. Each of us has willpower, intelligence and these two tools can help to get rid of any addiction without any help from medical professionals and drugs. You just have to want to.

[Oasisman]

Can someone still develop the habit of gambling and become an addict even though no one around gambles?

Humans are social being, if others in the society are not around gambling then I think gambling addiction will not survive for long. And gambling comes from thousands of years ago, so I think some changes may come as a result of the change in environment, but it will not be possible to turn gambling off. If anyone wanna know the history of gambling please check this topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5405436.0

Indeed, humans needs social relationships, if nobody around to gamble with you, then I guess gambling won't be as fun as it is. Thus, addiction won't be developed as competition and excitement to play will never be developed as well.
Our life here on earth is actually like you're gambling. You make certain decisions that you do not know the outcome. I am not reading that history you shared, but IMO, gambling was derived through life experiences.

[serjent05]

Without the presence of the internet, I think environmental change can have a huge effect on gambling addiction.  Gambling addiction would be minimized if there is no available gambling activities around.  It was stated on the research^[1] that localities can control the sanction and location of gambling opportunities.  So if the gambler moved to a location where gambling is sanctioned then his gambling activity would be limited.  Thus his exposure to gambling will be lessened and might possibly help the gambler ease out his addiction.



[1]  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3579310/

[livingfree]

Can someone still develop the habit of gambling and become an addict even though no one around gambles?

Humans are social being, if others in the society are not around gambling then I think gambling addiction will not survive for long. And gambling comes from thousands of years ago, so I think some changes may come as a result of the change in environment, but it will not be possible to turn gambling off. If anyone wanna know the history of gambling please check this topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5405436.0

The chance is high that it won't happen anymore if there are no gambler that will encourage the others to gamble.

But if someone starts it and gives the idea that it's fun and there's money on it, the likely of influencing the others is very high. That's what is going to happen.

At first, if there's no encouragement, there will be no people that shall gamble at that place. And if somebody gets the initiative then we can't be sure if it won't exist there.

[abel1337]

Can someone still develop the habit of gambling and become an addict even though no one around gambles?

Humans are social being, if others in the society are not around gambling then I think gambling addiction will not survive for long. And gambling comes from thousands of years ago, so I think some changes may come as a result of the change in environment, but it will not be possible to turn gambling off. If anyone wanna know the history of gambling please check this topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5405436.0

The chance is high that it won't happen anymore if there are no gambler that will encourage the others to gamble.

But if someone starts it and gives the idea that it's fun and there's money on it, the likely of influencing the others is very high. That's what is going to happen.

At first, if there's no encouragement, there will be no people that shall gamble at that place. And if somebody gets the initiative then we can't be sure if it won't exist there.

Everything changes when it's a gambler is an addict. An addict has this urge to play gambling even no one is encouraging the gambler. Remember that there are gambling addicts who are playing discretely just to avoid the attention of the people around them. There are also people who are trying to stop addicts in playing but addicts are trying their best to themselves seem they stop playing. Though changing environment can help addicts to realize things up and through those realization, It can help them reduce or change the habit of them playing gambling. People around an addict can contribute to the factor of addiction but it is all in the gambling addict if he want to stop or reduce his addiction.