You must do this if you want to QUIT or NOT

[coin-investor]

I have learned two things which I make myself aware of every time I gamble and that is to limit your time and allocate money and never chase your losses these things have been advised thousand times but remembering these three pieces of advice by heart will always get you out of trouble, so it's up to you how you will motivate yourself in remembering these three.
Gambling is addictive but if you are more focused on other things you will treat gambling as a form of entertainment, it always goes down on priorities.

[maydna]

If you want to stop gambling, you really have to have that desire so you can do it because quitting gambling is not as easy as one might think. Many people have tried to quit but can't because their mind goes back to gambling, and they end up gambling again. Apart from that, they do nothing and keep quiet when not gambling so that thoughts of returning to gambling will return. That's what makes people go back to gambling because they find it difficult to find the desire to stop gambling. Plus, they feel alone, and there is no one to help them stop, so they feel that stopping gambling will be in vain. If we have a friend or relative experiencing gambling addiction, we can help and support him so that he understands we are always there for him.

[Yatsan]

For sure we are all aware of those things which should be avoided as gamblers but why do gamblers still fall into addiction? 'coz that's how addiction works. People becomes unconscious of their actions such as doing things regardless if it causes them harm or if it is bad for them simply because there's a stimulus and with gambling, that is money. Everyone desires to be rich and for some obvious reasons, this gave or created an impression to gambling activities; a gateway to get rich in an instant. As we all know there are instances to prove this thing but that's not how fate runs in everyone's life. Things are not consistent and are not mutual to each and every gambler.

[Slow death]

I'm wondering why there have been so many threads about things like gambling addiction, which is even weirder and this topic is being discussed in a place where lots of casinos are advertised, to get an idea that gambling is not a problem serious, we can make a comparison of drug addiction, addiction to alcoholic beverages and addiction to gambling, for that all that each one of us needs to do is simply to observe in his house, street and city how his friends, neighbors and relatives behave, if they play a lot of gambling, if they drink a lot of beer, if they take drugs. then we will see that the gambling will be the one with the lowest number.

I hardly ever saw people from my neighborhood, my city and house playing gambling every day and hour, in fact it looks like they don't care about gambling, but when talking about alcoholic beverages then the number of people from my neighborhood, from my city who consume alcohol and a very high number that is even frightening and the same thing I see in the case of drugs. so I don't see gambling as such a big danger that we constantly talk about gambling addictions

[coinerer]

If you want to stop gambling, you really have to have that desire so you can do it because quitting gambling is not as easy as one might think. Many people have tried to quit but can't because their mind goes back to gambling, and they end up gambling again. Apart from that, they do nothing and keep quiet when not gambling so that thoughts of returning to gambling will return. That's what makes people go back to gambling because they find it difficult to find the desire to stop gambling. Plus, they feel alone, and there is no one to help them stop, so they feel that stopping gambling will be in vain. If we have a friend or relative experiencing gambling addiction, we can help and support him so that he understands we are always there for him.

Quitting gambling is much easier for someone who is not yet deeply addicted to gambling. however, it is very difficult for someone who is deeply addicted to gambling to Quitting gambling. But Quitting gambling is not a big thing, but controlling yourself from gambling is a big thing. But it is true that gambling is a bad addiction but on the other hand gambling is a good place for entertainment which is bound to make you feel good. And that's why even if people are not addicted to gambling, they don't give up gambling completely

[Wapfika]

I'm wondering why there have been so many threads about things like gambling addiction, which is even weirder and this topic is being discussed in a place where lots of casinos are advertised, to get an idea that gambling is not a problem serious, we can make a comparison of drug addiction, addiction to alcoholic beverages and addiction to gambling, for that all that each one of us needs to do is simply to observe in his house, street and city how his friends, neighbors and relatives behave, if they play a lot of gambling, if they drink a lot of beer, if they take drugs. then we will see that the gambling will be the one with the lowest number.

Because it’s the most easiest way to discuss as topic on gambling for people that doesn’t want to discuss a technical topic on gambling such as actual betting. Gambling addiction is always happening and in fact the most popular topic in every gambling forum even outside the forum if you will research on other forum like reddit.

The only point that I understand here is that we all advertised casino on our signature space that directly negative affected with this kind of topic. SO bringing up this kind of topic is really not good as casino promoter but for it’s normal to have a discussion like this on gambling forum if we are not considering casino promotion.

[Merit.s]

If a gambler have the wrong intention to gamble in other to make profit,he will end up losing all his funds because he will be controlled by his emotion. If you allow your emotions to control you in gambling, you will easily become an addict. That is why as a gambler, you should have your gamble budget cut out from your income,so that if it happens that you have used all the money for gambling as budgeted,you wait till when you are paid the next month. This will help trim down excessive spending and also will reduce the chance of one getting addicted to gamble.

[Porfirii]

Apart from the gambling budget it is also important to allocate a limited amount of time for your gambling activities. By setting a time limit, you can ensure that you don't spend excessive amounts of time gambling and prioritize other important aspects of your life.

Also Avoid chasing losses cause it is the beginning stage of getting addicted to gambling and Don't Use Gambling as an Escape from any of your problems especially when it related to your financial status.

You said it very well, apart from setting out a certain budget for gambling in order to moderate your gambling habit. You also need to set a limited time for gambling maybe twice in a week preferably weekends. This will make you not to spend more time gambling. The more you spend time gambling, the more addicted you become to it because it is natural. Whatever you do often become part of you.

Then finally chasing losses is another thing that leads to gambling addiction. If you take gambling as fun and not for a professional job when you lose it will not pain you much.

In psychology, this phenomenon is well known and it is called the "sunk cost fallacy":

"a greater tendency to continue an endeavor once an investment in money, effort, or time has been made"

It is known as a behavioral error and goes against any rational choice theory, but it is very common among novice players, which is not necessarily bad because the consequent suffering entails a good lesson.

On the contrary, if big players fall on it, it often becomes a ruinous decision: even if they are lucky enough to recover from the loss, next time they will fall on it again, until they stop having good luck.

[blockman]

Admission is a big factor, admission of being an addicted gambler. And after realizing that problem, you have to seek the help of the professionals that have been helping addicted gamblers. You may try to do it on your own but if you find it too hard, there's no need to hide the problem but to go to those professionals that will help you remove that gambling addiction as it's for your own good. Realizing and accepting that you've got a gambling problem is hard to happen for many gamblers and that's why they've been stuck into this problem.

[Agbe]

Now, if you still want to gamble but you don't want to become addicted to it, one of the things you should do in my opinion is:

1. Only set aside an amount of money that you will use to gamble in a casino.
2. Don't think that you will gamble to make money, because if you do that, you will surely have a problem later.
3. Just spend a few hours staying in a casino to gamble so you can avoid what you don't realize is wasting time that you should be spending on important things instead of gambling.

Op I don't think this your opinions can stop a gambler from gambling addiction. Instead it will make them continuously visiting the hall at all times. Many people have practice what you said but the addiction is always there. A neighbor is so much addicted to the casino hall that he can stay without gambling a day, although he won some days but the losses are more. There is nothing you can tell to him that he will stop gambling except God intervene. In fact he takes gambling as a career. Op if you have seen a real addicted gambler, you will restructure your options.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

1. Only set aside an amount of money that you will use to gamble in a casino.

I think this has been talked about in one thread on this board, in which some people confirmed that it's not easy to only set out what one is willing to gamble off at once, someone who doesn't have the ability to control their gambling urges or emotions will end up looking for ways to get more money to gamble more, with the hope that they can recover at least what they have lost. You know some people will want to try their luck to see if they can win, and at times, they will keep on trying their luck until they have gambled away more than their budget, all in the name of chasing losses.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Very good points, point number two is where I believe most gamblers have problems, every body needs money, we all need money as long as we are not rich yet, and to be sincere, real reason why most of us gamble is to see if we can make money(win money) in the process, it will take a great amount of discipline to gamble and not care about making money, except the gambler is already rich and  is only gambling solely to have fun...

Another point I feel op should have also added is, not to compete with any one, in my area here, some boys engage in gambling competition, that is them competing who will win the highest in 7 days(one week), this lead some of this boys into gambling and losing funds they never intended gambling with.

[Mr.suevie]

I think for me the answer is to not quit, you may pause to do gambling but sooner when you want to come back you have the lessons of the past rather than just quiting instantly. I tried that before but it's not that easy I'd rather have some mitigation plan rather than quiting immediately. Gambling might seems bad but it's not if you take it on moderation.

Thats same way I feel when I see post about a gambler actually quitting gambling, I'd like to say that this particular part in gambling is actually not quite easy, I feel you can only take a break with this habit because the losses can get you and you yourself will feel that you need a time out because it really causes you the gambler alot of pain. I have actually had lots of break from this act because of many losses and sometimes I feel it wants to get to me so I pause a bit and resume when I have recovered or have extra funds

[electronicash]

1. Only set aside an amount of money that you will use to gamble in a casino.

I think this has been talked about in one thread on this board, in which some people confirmed that it's not easy to only set out what one is willing to gamble off at once, someone who doesn't have the ability to control their gambling urges or emotions will end up looking for ways to get more money to gamble more, with the hope that they can recover at least what they have lost. You know some people will want to try their luck to see if they can win, and at times, they will keep on trying their luck until they have gambled away more than their budget, all in the name of chasing losses.

at times the money set aside for gambling will be bigger than his food allocation.  

because he wants to push his luck. many gamblers only see the whole situation when its late. only after they got into very deep, and sometimes even when they already see the problem, they enjoy it. especially when he had already established a network of gambling friends, its harder to quit.

[abel1337]

It is really interesting to know that there are people giving their side of thoughts in order to give gamblers advice when they are having difficulty to prevent themselves from gambling.  Though I would say it always ends up on the personal discipline and self control, these few advises can make people thinks another means or reason for them to stop gambling and if they failed to, the latter advise of keeping oneself loses to minimum is also a good alternative option.

There are people who like to help but of course it will depends on the reciecer if they will follow or apply it to them selves. To be honest if you are an addict, you will just disregard this tips as it will not really help you since you don't have a good self control though the topic is about quitting so yeah it will this will be helpful for some people who are reading this. The effectiveness of this will depend on the self control of the gambler and how motivated he are on stopping gambling.

[passwordnow]

If a gambler have the wrong intention to gamble in other to make profit,he will end up losing all his funds because he will be controlled by his emotion.

And that's because he'll keep on chasing losses and that's an unacceptable matter for a gambler that's seriously doing it because he's all for the profit. Like everyone else that focuses on the profit but it's a different thing when you know your limitations.

If you allow your emotions to control you in gambling, you will easily become an addict.

It is not going to be noticed by the gambler that has been controlled by his own emotions already that he's addicted. All of those factors being said are good help if ever someone is experiencing this realization now.

[Oasisman]

Things we must do to stop gambling according to experts:

1. Recognize the problem
2. Remove the stigma
3. Confide in a love one
4. Seek professional health
5. Adjust as needed

Source: https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/how-to-stop-gambling-expert-advice/

Now, if you still want to gamble but you don't want to become addicted to it, one of the things you should do in my opinion is:

1. Only set aside an amount of money that you will use to gamble in a casino.
2. Don't think that you will gamble to make money, because if you do that, you will surely have a problem later.
3. Just spend a few hours staying in a casino to gamble so you can avoid what you don't realize is wasting time that you should be spending on important things instead of gambling.

This is too simple and direct to the point, but doing any of these are so inevitable. Some people might have set aside some gambling money, but sometimes we go beyond it a little bit. And number 2, I dont think that possible though because making money in gambling is part of your goal. Losing ain't fun though, it'all surely create frustrations.
Finally, the number 3, if you're not yet closer to being a gambling addict, I believe you have already accomplished all your task before you set foot in the casino. So, the time you wasted for leisure in the casino is not really a waste of time because gambling for some people is a stress reliever, and that's something important for our mental health.

[Jody.Drummer]

Admission is a big factor, admission of being an addicted gambler. And after realizing that problem, you have to seek the help of the professionals that have been helping addicted gamblers. You may try to do it on your own but if you find it too hard, there's no need to hide the problem but to go to those professionals that will help you remove that gambling addiction as it's for your own good. Realizing and accepting that you've got a gambling problem is hard to happen for many gamblers and that's why they've been stuck into this problem.

Usually they are not unaware that they are an addict, but they are embarrassed enough to tell it to others that in the end they cannot let go because they are buried by themselves.
But whether being defeated by shame will solve the problem, of course not because after all it will be difficult when it is really an addict.
The main reason is that when telling someone else, sometimes that person cannot be trusted and tells it again to someone else, and that encourages a person's shame so that they don't dare to tell.
A person may be able to lie to others, but they cannot lie to themselves. The key is within themselves, because basically as others we just want to help.

By the way, maybe we can also easily talk like this, because we don't experience it, but if we were in their position it would also be very difficult.

[klidex]

Actually controlling myself like that is very easy for me just not thinking too much about winning big and respecting the money.
In other ways, such as busying yourself elsewhere chatting with friends or going to the park with friends or family and if you want to gamble, always be consistent with the specified funds, for example $ 10 cannot be more than that.
For me this method is very effective for me and I usually use this money in games that have very low minimum bets so that I can play long sessions and have satisfied myself to have fun at gambling.

[macson]

What you said op is correct about the opinions you mentioned, but as others have said, that is not easy to do especially if a gambler has been playing in a casino for a long time. Because of course they are used to that routine gambling, so what will happen is that they will have an adjustment time for the routine they are used to. But when they are also used to that, for sure that will improve the situation of what they will do as a responsible gambler for sure in the end.

i also think so, it is almost impossible to change the habits of someone who gambles very often, especially if the person is able to manage his gambling properly ^{(people are easy to talk about but in fact making drastic changes is very difficult)}

This reason is what makes me prefer the invitation to encourage a heavy gambler to be more responsible for the gambling he is doing, self-control and not having big ambitions in gambling is one example of responsible gambling. There is no point in pursuing victory at gambling, but in fact it is make things difficult for yourself.