How to stop gambling addiction?

[komisariatku]

In the era of everything digital, everything can be done from a smartphone and computer device. including gambling activities. There is no longer a need to go to the casino, just sit back and play with small money.

I think many people initially played gambling just for fun. Only placing small bets to fill the time when boring. Most people already know that playing gambling has a greater chance of losing than winning.

However, it doesn't feel like a lot of money has been lost. The only way you can think of to make up for lost money is to increase the bet. With the hope that 1 win will return the loser's money. Unexpectedly, the money lost is getting bigger and bigger. If the money has run out, then borrowing is another alternative to playing gambling. Not felt, has become a gambling addict.
 
if you have reached this point, it is very difficult to be able to stop gambling. How to stop gambling? Meanwhile, a lot of money has been lost, and how to return the lost money.
 

[Cantsay]

There have several threads where other users have shared their tips on how they stopped or help others stop gambling addiction;

Here are a few trick based on what others have shared that could help you reduce or become conscious of your gambling habit.
Make sure you allocate a certain amount for gambling, it could be 5% of your earnings or perhaps you could just set a fixed amount like $150 monthly and once it has been exhausted just quit and try again the next month. With this you won't just go into you account and start gambling with everything you got.
Another tip would be for you to set a duration, you could just set your alarm and once it sets off logout of your account and continue with your life, although this depends on the type of game you're betting on.
One last important tip is to never chase loses, when you have lost always accept that fact and move on because if you try to play to win your money back you'll only just end up losing more money.

[Oshosondy]

Not good to be greedy, what led to addiction is greed. Another thing is that punters have to be disciplined, if a punter do not discipline himself or herself, life or gambling will disciplin the punter.

An gambling addict should realise that gambling is not for making money. What led them to be addicted is that they thought they can be making money from gambling but gambling is not like that.

Punters should set their weekly budget which should not be more than 5% of the money they are earning weekly. Any gambler that is gambling with more than 5% of his or her weekly earning is greedy and can become addicted.

[Wiwo]

Continuing on this pattern of chasing losses will lead to more losses and possible addictions and this has been the major cause of gambling addictions so if you see that you are chassing after losing too much then you need to have a pullback to avoid sinking into addictions.

[bitzizzix]

There is no one-size-fits-all answer to these questions, as the best way to stop gambling can vary depending on each individual's situation.
and the main thing that you do is, seriously decide that you want to stop gambling. And get rid of all the gambling sites or apps that are on your smartphone or computer, and you also have to be able to distract yourself with other activities that can forget your addiction and I think the best choice is to have work and positive things, or other activities that can help your addiction.
Such as religious activities or other positive activities for you or others that you can do after work or when you are not working, and you should also admit to yourself, family members and close friends that you have a problem and need help. They will support you and your recovery, but you have to be honest with them.

and the best thing to do is never gamble even for fun, and never hope or think about the money you lost because it will never come back, forget it.

[komisariatku]

Here are a few trick based on what others have shared that could help you reduce or become conscious of your gambling habit.
Make sure you allocate a certain amount for gambling, it could be 5% of your earnings or perhaps you could just set a fixed amount like $150 monthly and once it has been exhausted just quit and try again the next month. ~snip~

Initially managing finances was easy. Before a lot of money lost. Sometimes if lose quickly, are curious to make a deposit again and again until the money runs out.

Not good to be greedy, what led to addiction is greed. Another thing is that punters have to be disciplined, if a punter do not discipline himself or herself, life or gambling will disciplin the punter.

yeaa.. Its not good. When a lot of money is loses, gambling rules life. Logic no longer works normally. And after everything is lost then logic can normalize and regret everything

Continuing on this pattern of chasing losses will lead to more losses and possible addictions ~snip~

You are right, it is the desire to return the lost money that keeps play gambling

Thank you friend. This condition is not good

[CryptSafe]

Gambling takes discipline to curtail it's excesses. As a gambler you should know this and set a boundary for yourself on daily gambling activities or limits. One should be able to know when his or her gambling habit  is out of control so as to make necessary corrections by minimizing their gambling lifestyle.
I think the following could help

Have a daily or weekly gambling budget if you want to. Do well not to exceed it per gambling day or exercise.

Do not gamble too often as you will be seen as an addicted gambler. Make out some specific days in a week for gambling and stick to it s it would guide you through then as time goes on gradually reduce your casino visit time.

Do not get into a gambling competition with any one as it is not advisable to do so.

And lastly,  learn to have self restraint while gambling. This will help you to control your ego while gambling so as not to do otherwise.

[YOSHIE]

if you have reached this point, it is very difficult to be able to stop gambling. How to stop gambling? Meanwhile, a lot of money has been lost, and how to return the lost money.

If you still have a smartphone in it, there are several online gambling sites, of course it's difficult to stop gambling, except: you completely delete all online gambling sites that are in your smartphone.

Actually addiction lies in ourselves in response to it, in my opinion if you haven't had time to sell your house, car, land and so on to spend on online gambling, In my opinion, this does not include severe addiction, you can still manage to stop playing online gambling, the point is that your determination and self-will to stop gambling still have a good chance.

However, if you ask about returning money lost in bets, the answer is difficult 99% there is no way, gambling is clearly the risk of losing. Losing money is in the 80 degree position.

[paid2]

Deleting all the bookmarks linked to gambling, and your browsing history + your cookies will already eliminate the suggestions made by your browser and this will prevent you from being reminded of gambling sites as soon as you go online.

Otherwise, don't forget that you can request Self-Exclusion periods from regulated casinos, those where a KYC is required. This allows you to link your identity to self-exclusion for a chosen period and thus limit the risks of falling back into gambling.

Some casinos and online platforms also offer Cool-off periods of several weeks/months, when you need to take a break. During these periods, you cannot gamble.

Otherwise, more or less every country has institutions responsible for blacklisting people with gambling addiction problems, and you can spontaneously ask them to blacklist you for life, or for a few months/years. For example, in UK : https://www.gamstop.co.uk/

The only limit to this is if you use non-KYC gambling platforms, but that depends on the user only and no one could assist him in this last case.

[yahoo62278]

A true "gambler" is never going to quit. They're always going to have the urge. It starts to not even be about money at a certain point, you are just chasing the high you felt on your 1st big win.

The only real way to stop is find a hobby or a girl/man to fill your time, but even then the urge will come again at some point.

[elevates]

Smartphone has made it easier to access Gambling websites from anywhere. Now you don't need to visit a casino to gamble. Making it moe addictive than it was before. Once in a while gambling doesn't form an addiction. When the once in a while automatically becomes a daily need then it is called addiction. There are two ways to control gambling addiction.

1. Self control
2. Professional help.

Self control doesn't mean resisting your addiction. It means controlling you spending habit. Allocations a fixed budget and gambling within it will help in reducing the risk of this addiction. It will help you to satisfy your urge and will not destroy you financially. Self control is easy to explain but hard to adopt.

If self control doesn't work then the last option is to take professional help. When you know you will get destroyed and your will power is unble to takeover the urge of gambling, then you should go for professional help. Consider it to the the last resort.

[shinratensei_]

Try to decrease the intensity to play it. I think that this can be done only by yourself. It's caused by you have intention to stop from being addicted with it and then decreasing the intensity will be very effective. Try to avoid to touch with anythings that related to it.

Try to think use gambling for the entertaining purpose only. it's not the way to make instant money in a short time. There have been many people who have been wrongly taking it as a money machine that can give them all instant profit.

You can't stay away from your addiction instantly but you can try to slowly and surely moving away from your addiction.

[xSkylarx]

However, it doesn't feel like a lot of money has been lost. The only way you can think of to make up for lost money is to increase the bet. With the hope that 1 win will return the loser's money. Unexpectedly, the money lost is getting bigger and bigger. If the money has run out, then borrowing is another alternative to playing gambling. Not felt, has become a gambling addict.
 

You will really learn a hard lesson on this because you will lose more. I remember this before when I was betting a crash game. I just thought the money that I allocated was enough, so every time I lose, I will increase my bet times two, which at first is working, but later on it is getting bigger and bigger until I lose it all. No matter how small your bet is or how big your budget is, as long as you keep chasing your losses, you'll lose more.

[swogerino]

In the era of everything digital, everything can be done from a smartphone and computer device. including gambling activities. There is no longer a need to go to the casino, just sit back and play with small money.

I think many people initially played gambling just for fun. Only placing small bets to fill the time when boring. Most people already know that playing gambling has a greater chance of losing than winning.

However, it doesn't feel like a lot of money has been lost. The only way you can think of to make up for lost money is to increase the bet. With the hope that 1 win will return the loser's money. Unexpectedly, the money lost is getting bigger and bigger. If the money has run out, then borrowing is another alternative to playing gambling. Not felt, has become a gambling addict.
 
if you have reached this point, it is very difficult to be able to stop gambling. How to stop gambling? Meanwhile, a lot of money has been lost, and how to return the lost money.
 

First of all you should stop thinking about how returning the lost money as there is no sure way to do it,what is lost in gambling is lost and you should start by quitting and forgetting that amount.After that the person should stop gambling if he cannot keep himself without getting into trouble aka losing more money chasing the lost amount.I have been addicted for some years but in late 2020 I managed to quit and to do that I set predefined bankroll weekly and never passed it no matter if I lost or won.I kept doing that for several weeks until my self control grew in confidence and now I can say I am addiction free,of course I overdo it once or twice in a lot of time but that is trying your luck more than becoming addicted.

[Beparanf]

if you have reached this point, it is very difficult to be able to stop gambling. How to stop gambling? Meanwhile, a lot of money has been lost, and how to return the lost money.

You should open up to others with your problem and start accepting that there’s problem within you on handling gambling addiction. Addiction is very hard to stop without sharing it with others since you will always just coming back on gambling whenever you feel alone. As you already said, Casino is very convenient now because you can only gamble by just sitting in your computer or even on restroom with your mobile phone.

If you have gambling addiction problem but shy to open up to your relatives or partner, You can use our very own problem gambling support group to open up your problem so that we can help each other regardless of knowing each other personally.

[qwertyup23]

Continuing on this pattern of chasing losses will lead to more losses and possible addictions and this has been the major cause of gambling addictions so if you see that you are chassing after losing too much then you need to have a pullback to avoid sinking into addictions.

I actually mentioned this before that there exists this "gambler's cycle" where an addict suffers the endless cycle of chasing their winnings only to end up with more losses.

In order to actually help yourself in combating addiction, you must first acknowledge that you are indeed suffering from it. Once you have recognized that it is about time to take action, there lies infinite number of possibilities and solutions to this. But from several threads that also asked the same question, one answer remains above all- which is to remain dedicated and consistent with action.

Try to substitute your addiction with different activities to keep your mind busy. Remember, this is also not an easy process where you can get out in an instant- it takes years to become addicted to something; and it will also take some time in order to address it.

[tusandii]

There have been many threads that have the same points as how to stop gambling and overcome gambling addiction or avoid gambling addiction.
Maybe there isn't a really effective way to control or stop gambling addiction, but at least there are some things that can be done to minimize gambling activities.
1. Looking for more positive activities that take up enough time so gamblers can forget about gambling a little.
2. More often to interact with family because family can make a person happier and feel warmth in gathering with people he loves.
3. Avoid any form that can lead back to gambling such as gathering with gang members who like to gamble or visiting gambling places. If gambling with an online casino, you can delete several browsers used to access gambling sites.
4. Set aside money or save money from part of your income so that you don't feel like you have money to gamble.
And actually there are many more, but that's all not guaranteed because success depends on the intentions and efforts of a gambler when he wants to stop.

[inthelongrun]

Everything that is too much is bad including eating. Sometimes it is not addiction, it's about the lack of discipline to put money that we are only capable of losing.  Then comes the urge to take back the losses which makes some gamblers continue gambling with money that is beyond its budget. This time, it needs to seek professional help.

So it's like it is better for someone that gambles daily but is responsible enough than someone that is not a regular gambler but always wanted to take back the losses which makes matters worse.

Nowadays there are a lot of choices for us to do once we are done playing or gambling with our allotted time and budget. There's not even enough free time for us to do them all.

[coin-investor]

........ it is very difficult to be able to stop gambling. How to stop gambling? Meanwhile, a lot of money has been lost, and how to return the lost money.
 

Yes, it's indeed very difficult once it gets hold of you, it's hard to get out of your system, you will learn how to lie how to cheat, and how to hide your addiction.

Only a professional can help you to stop gambling, you can hear the best advice about how to stop gambling but only a professional can lay out a plan that you can follow because professionals have different approaches for every gambler.

You never think or even plan to win back money that you've lost, it's very risky and you can end up in misery or deep in debt if you try to win back your losses.

[piebeyb]

I don't know if I'm wrong but there seems to be a lot of threads that have the same title as this before and discuss how to stop gambling addiction, but I and the community here can't guarantee that they can help you because to stop gambling addiction you need to cooperate with yourself , because when people help you and give advice it doesn't necessarily help you if you don't start it yourself.

Gambling is just for fun, what you mean is maybe you set a winning target so that it makes you feel bored and try to bet more but you lose more without realizing it and you want to catch up on lost money, I think it's impossible someone's addiction starts with feeling want to pursue to return the money that has been lost, you know that gambling has this risk consciously, so when you lose and lose money you have to accept defeat and start to play like your original goal, have fun with gambling without having to earn a lot of money.