How do you stop gambling (sports betting, casino e.t.c)?

[Issa56]

Gambling brings so much joy especially when you're on the winning side, when things are all in your favor it just seems like you should never stop. But when it gets bad, you look for a way to pour out your anger, either on someone or on something.
When someone is addicted to gambling I feel it's worst than one who's addicted to drugs.

When gambling and you are winning, you are always being happy, whenever you lose then you shouldn't pour your anger on anyone, in gambling its either you win or you lose, whenever you are winning, then you should be expecting losing, so whenever you lose, you shouldn't be angry, it's a normal thing which is suppose to happen in gambling.

Generally I know addiction is really bad, but I don't know which one is better between gambling addiction and drugs because I don't do drugs and am not addicted to gambling, but in anything we are doing, we should always avoid being addicted, because it's always difficult to stop when addicted.

So much has been said about betting companies regarding how they should be responsible in helping those who are addicted to gambling, although is really hard to do so on there own path because gamblers can't be monitored.

Do you think gambling sites really cares about people that are addicted to gambling, they are running their business and the more people are addicted, the more money they will be making, even if gambling sites are trying to help people that are addicted to gambling, then they won't really be serious about it, because when addicted gamblers reduces, then it's going to affect them.

[len01]

This is why it is difficult to find who are playing aggressive and excessive gambling and losing their life hard earned money through betting and all these stuff.

It seems like the important point here is that we don't need who has a more severe gambling addiction and who is a crazy gambling addict, but from all this we know that the most important point is that we must always be able to control ourselves when gambling without emotion and always be responsible in every session. our bet is to avoid gambling addiction that can destroy us.
we all know that if you become a gambling addict it will be difficult to stop, therefore this thread educates us to gamble responsibly and stay away from gambling addiction.

[Doan9269]

The question is if you're a gambler or have someone who is, what's the best way to help out. And what's your story on escaping that addiction (gambling)...

How do you fight this battle?

The answer here is what i can give to myself because i know it will work but I can't guarantee that it will also work for another person, when you want to quit gambling, it's a very easy thing to do provided that you're not an addicted gambler, all you just need is to delete every gambling apps and websites on your phone, clear the cookies and history, change your gambling enabling environment to where you can't have access to gambling, engage your money in doing business or invest them on profitable assets, if you're addicted already, then try to find a suitor that will replace your gambling addiction after taking these necessary steps above and get yourself busy doing something.

[Yamifoud]

Gambling brings so much joy especially when you're on the winning side, when things are all in your favor it just seems like you should never stop. But when it gets bad, you look for a way to pour out your anger, either on someone or on something.
When someone is addicted to gambling I feel it's worst than one who's addicted to drugs.

Too much enjoyable that sometimes we missed checking our pockets and it was empty already because we are chasing our losses and luck.
Well, that exactly happens when we think that gambling could give us money, and that is when we think this could be the solution to our financial problem. Unfortunately, this will even add more problems financially.

The question is if you're a gambler or have someone who is, what's the best way to help out. And what's your story on escaping that addiction (gambling)...

How do you fight this battle?

The best thing to do is to stop and put an end to our connection to anyone who is a gambler. Staying away from them could easily make us to move on and forget about the stuff we do in the past.

[masulum]

Too much enjoyable that sometimes we missed checking our pockets and it was empty already because we are chasing our losses and luck.
Well, that exactly happens when we think that gambling could give us money, and that is when we think this could be the solution to our financial problem. Unfortunately, this will even add more problems financially.

Most of people who starts gambling will have the thought that he want to double their money by gambling. Then, when he loses, he will think "one more time, maybe I will win this time", from this thought it becomes difficult for someone to stop gambling. Because inside him will always focus on trying one more time, and keep doing the same thing "one more time". So without realizing it he was addicted to gambling. Maybe in this forum many have succeeded in making gambling as entertainment, in fact it is unlikely that people out there think that way.

[Wakate]

The problem in today's  world is that everyone is gambling and betting anonymously in the comfort of their homes or even on thier cell phones. Most of the time the other people won't know if the person is having bets that's on the losing side or on the winning side.
Another thing is that most gamblers won't even tell their family that they are losing money in gamble otherwise their wives and their family members will try to stop them.

This is why it is difficult to find who are playing aggressive and excessive gambling and losing their life hard earned money through betting and all these stuff.

It seems to me that those who play through the application on mobile do not play for big money, this is something like entertainment for them. And in fact, now most of them play like this, because the smartphone is always with us and we can play anytime we want. Aggressive betting takes more time, so it will be much more difficult to keep it a secret, you need to analyze matches, read the news and this will not go unnoticed by our family.

Betting using smart phones is very reliable and easy to get the result because we are always with our phones. The problem is that this can increase gambling addiction because we can always have more influence since we are always with our phone and we might choose to bet at any time we want.

Gambling addiction can come in if we have friends around that  make us to keep betting maybe because they always win. It is very important for us to watch the way we bet to avoid unnecessary drama especially when we make loses that could that is weeks and months to recover.

[Crypt0Gore]

Some people are never suited for gambling in the first place, for example, people who don't have a job secured have nothing to fall back on when they lose their money, this is a bad way of living because you are ruining yourself and your future.

A smart gambler must first have a job and be disciplined enough to never use all his salaries on gambling, this is why setting a gambling limit for yourself is the best healthy way to gamble like a responsible person.

Have this mindset of, a good day is coming, gamble with 2% of the money you making per month, the remaining 98% won't get you broke, you will be in a good mood and have a roof over your head if all you keep losing is the 2% of what you are making from your job.

You don't have to stop gambling, you only have to apply sense by not burning more than you can afford to forfeit.

[blockman]

The question is if you're a gambler or have someone who is, what's the best way to help out. And what's your story on escaping that addiction (gambling)...

How do you fight this battle?

The best thing to do is to stop and put an end to our connection to anyone who is a gambler. Staying away from them could easily make us to move on and forget about the stuff we do in the past.

The influence is right, if you're being influenced by a gambler then you can't quit for sure. But if you're already addicted and someone still keeps on influencing you and you can't stop him, you better need to find yourself a new place to stay if you can't avoid those people that influences you to gamble.
Like now, there are a lot of sporting events that can easily be influenced by anyone so, you'll be having a hard time getting out of addiction if there are people that surround you to gamble.
So, if you do want to quit and to stop, you have to find ways and initiate things so that you're helping yourself to get out of it and you're also doing your part alone.

[madnessteat]

I believe that if a person likes to gamble about it should know the closest people in time to notice if suddenly you lose control of yourself. Only people who appreciate you are able to stop you. Many gamblers hide from their relatives that they play gambling. In my opinion this is a huge mistake which leaves you alone with the problem, and in such a situation it is really very difficult to overcome gambling addiction.

If you don't have a gambling addiction, try to play not every day and play only with money on which your life doesn't depend. 

[piebeyb]

we all know that if you become a gambling addict it will be difficult to stop, therefore this thread educates us to gamble responsibly and stay away from gambling addiction.

There is always a thread where people ask how to stop gambling and get rid of addiction, we all know that it sounds difficult if we are still in an environment of people who are still gambling, for example friends or family, if gambling is just alone I'm sure you can stop it as long as you are consistent by starting to find another hobby to get rid of the desire to gamble.

Usually addicts or gamblers play to find fun and luck, that's why they will not stop until they find a satisfied point in gambling, so they continue to play gambling. Gambling must be able to control yourself. Never play gambling if you cannot control it.  

[ImThour]

When I was a teen, I used to just do all-in and get rekt and don't do gambling for months. It's that simple.
Just go all in and if you make it, just withdraw else you are already away from gambling as you don't have anything to gamble.

On the serious note, just withdraw whatever is left. You aren't going to do x10 simply to recover your losses.

[leonair]

This is why it is difficult to find who are playing aggressive and excessive gambling and losing their life hard earned money through betting and all these stuff.

It seems like the important point here is that we don't need who has a more severe gambling addiction and who is a crazy gambling addict, but from all this we know that the most important point is that we must always be able to control ourselves when gambling without emotion and always be responsible in every session. our bet is to avoid gambling addiction that can destroy us.
we all know that if you become a gambling addict it will be difficult to stop, therefore this thread educates us to gamble responsibly and stay away from gambling addiction.

Forgetting something requires focusing on something more attached to another one.  So if one wants to quit gambling then he must focus on something else and spend time there then it is possible to quit gambling. But if a gambler spends free time then it is not possible for him to quit gambling. Quitting gambling is so difficult that no one can explain exactly how to quit gambling. No one can get rid of gambling addiction by giving advice. quitting gambling requires commitment and a belief in yourself that you can control yourself

[CarnagexD]

Gambling brings so much joy especially when you're on the winning side, when things are all in your favor it just seems like you should never stop. But when it gets bad, you look for a way to pour out your anger, either on someone or on something.
When someone is addicted to gambling I feel it's worst than one who's addicted to drugs.

So much has been said about betting companies regarding how they should be responsible in helping those who are addicted to gambling, although is really hard to do so on there own path because gamblers can't be monitored.
I don't know if booking an appointment with a therapist would help or is something you as a gambler who wants out should do on your own.

The question is if you're a gambler or have someone who is, what's the best way to help out. And what's your story on escaping that addiction (gambling)...

How do you fight this battle?

Change your beliefs about gambling and put another task or habit to replace gambling.

Because all the battles happen in our own minds. If you really want to change, you have to change your self-belief. How bad is gambling in your life? How is it affecting your relationships and finance? Feed yourself with facts and use them as a new norm and a standard for your new self. Then replace gambling with something else. It could be sports like basketball or soccer. A task that will give you the same reward and adrenaline as how you gamble. With different action, you get the same reward and better benefits.

[SirLancelot]

I have never been addicted to gambling even though I like and enjoy it. And I guess I have enough self-discipline that I'm confident in saying, I'm never going that road.

To those who are already addicted, I guess a group effort is somehow needed to get them out of it. It's hard to expect that gambling addicts themselves will initiate their own rehabilitation, so family, friends, loved ones, workmates, and whoever is around them, even the casinos themselves, should perhaps also take a little share of responsibility.

Aside from the effort to seek professional intervention, other seemingly small yet significant efforts like inviting the gambler to another hobby, or visiting him to take away some of his/her idle hours, or other efforts to simply distract him/her from gambling will definitely be of help.

We are glad to hear that. Many wishes us to be like that who can enjoy what they want but still has a control. I think people like that are happier in their lives. Not like to us that we need to permanently quit the activities that makes us addicted only to focus on the much important thing. Despite of not being one of the addicts, you seem to know well if how can addicted gambler solve his problem.

People around us like our friends and families can help us but I doubt if the casinos will do the same thing, as that will be a threat to their business. An addicted gambler needs to understand that there are lots of activities out there which are also fun or profitable but has less or no side effects at all.

[skarais]

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Most of people who starts gambling will have the thought that he want to double their money by gambling. Then, when he loses, he will think "one more time, maybe I will win this time", from this thought it becomes difficult for someone to stop gambling. Because inside him will always focus on trying one more time, and keep doing the same thing "one more time". So without realizing it he was addicted to gambling. Maybe in this forum many have succeeded in making gambling as entertainment, in fact it is unlikely that people out there think that way.

Addiction to gambling can increase simply because of curiosity. Some gamblers become addicted simply out of curiosity about a particular game, but after that become addicted especially if they want to recover their losses. Gambling for fun is about those who gamble occasionally, they don't gamble all the time and may only spend a limited amount of money.

I'm obviously not sure about your last point because I think lot of gambling is just to make money. Entertainment is the second reason, while making money is the main goal.

[uneng]

Change your beliefs about gambling and put another task or habit to replace gambling.

Because all the battles happen in our own minds. If you really want to change, you have to change your self-belief. How bad is gambling in your life? How is it affecting your relationships and finance? Feed yourself with facts and use them as a new norm and a standard for your new self. Then replace gambling with something else. It could be sports like basketball or soccer. A task that will give you the same reward and adrenaline as how you gamble. With different action, you get the same reward and better benefits.

That is a great advice for people facing a gambling addiction. Maybe addiction isn't even the cause, but a consequence of something else which is happening on the life of the gambler and impacting him negatively. It's not unsual to develop an addiction as an attempt to escape from boredom, loneliness or rejection. People find on the game, drugs and alcohol the relief for the pain felt on their routine.

If you are going to take this relief out of their lives, you have to immediately replace it by another activity. That is where sports enter in scene, like you mentioned above. Even a healthy company of a friend or affair can be efficient to disperse the urge for gambling.

So it's everything about changing habits, routine and looking for healthy hobbies which wake pleasure in yourself.

[Despairo]

I'm not a gambling addict, so I don't have any experience to stop gambling as I can control myself and put a limit. The problem of gambler can become an addict because they bet higher than they can afford to lose as they want to make money. This is wrong because gambling is full of surprise and luck, even sports betting require skills, but if you're keep winning your account would be limit by the bookie.

[Davidvictorson]

How do you fight this battle?

There is no one-side-fits-all approach to stopping gambling. One of the things I always preach to my married friends who complain about being unable to do this is to have an honest conversation with their spouse. They need someone who is a non-gambler to hold them accountable. Their spouse would be perfect. In that conversation, they should discuss putting them in charge of their money. That is  their spouse should be in charge of their bank account and finances so that the second they receive any money it is not in their control. The advantage of this option is that it prevents them from squandering the money on gambling.

[rahmad2nd]

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Most of people who starts gambling will have the thought that he want to double their money by gambling. Then, when he loses, he will think "one more time, maybe I will win this time", from this thought it becomes difficult for someone to stop gambling. Because inside him will always focus on trying one more time, and keep doing the same thing "one more time". So without realizing it he was addicted to gambling. Maybe in this forum many have succeeded in making gambling as entertainment, in fact it is unlikely that people out there think that way.

Usually, what you say happens to novice gamblers. they think that gambling can easily multiply money. and yes, that's true, unfortunately for some lucky rookie gamblers. conversely, newbie gamblers who lose, they will try to think "one more time, maybe this time we will win". but what happens, can only win or even experience successive defeats. and for beginners who win, they will be more addicted because they get money practically and quickly and in the end they don't realize that they are gradually becoming addicts, regardless of winning or losing in the gambling session.

So, isn't this also what we've experienced right? I think, experience like this is a very common experience. then, some other gamblers will become increasingly dependent on his own desires. and some gamblers who learn from experience, change their minds to make gambling an entertainment. so, we will stay close to addiction, maybe even we ourselves are the ones. but consciously, we have more understanding and responsibility so as not to harm the people around us, especially our families. and nothing more, just making gambling a fun pastime.

[QueenVera]

The question is if you're a gambler or have someone who is, what's the best way to help out. And what's your story on escaping that addiction (gambling)...

How do you fight this battle?

The answer here is what i can give to myself because i know it will work but I can't guarantee that it will also work for another person, when you want to quit gambling, it's a very easy thing to do provided that you're not an addicted gambler, all you just need is to delete every gambling apps and websites on your phone, clear the cookies and history, change your gambling enabling environment to where you can't have access to gambling, engage your money in doing business or invest them on profitable assets, if you're addicted already, then try to find a suitor that will replace your gambling addiction after taking these necessary steps above and get yourself busy doing something.

This is funny to me and don't you think those measures can easily  be reversed?
I don't think this your technique might even work for you because  the same apps you mentioned  wouldn't cost me nothing but just few megabytes to reinstall them and clearing the cache and history  only made room and space for me to adventure the gambling world more and also o don't think the VPN will work or getting a partner as well because you might still get a partner and still decide to hide your gambling habits from he or she  and hence one of the best ways to stay in check is having someone stay around you to keep you in check and also having periodic counseling session.