Possible measures to stop online gambling addiction.

[Adbitco]

There is nothing wrong this your suggestions but to me is just left for the gambler to decide what is best for them, like as you do you can easily control yourself on your gambling process. Most times it could be very hard to do because there are always chance that man would want to gamble important game maybe you noticed that week could be a good week and you decided to place some bet. These are likely to those who often place bets on draw games as they plays weekly, but what would it take a gambler not to control his reasoning and actions towards gambling addiction.

[Cling18]

Blocking everything about gambling as well as ads and promotions will surely help but it will require self discipline and proper control. Temtations will always be around us so it is important that we will be 100% dedicated to quiting. It needs a lot of courage and willingness to stop. It should be mind over matter or else our emotions will still be superior over us.
It is our personal decision to quit or to continue because even if we block everything about gambling, if we aren't willing to quit, then we will still find ways to gamble. We shouldn't rely on what we can do to avoid gambling but rather check ourselves if we're really willing to give up gambling.

[BitcoinPanther]

Most people who are addicted would surely look for outside solutions before addressing the problem directly: themselves. You are not solving a problem if you’re always looking for help, knowing that the problem also lies within you. Developing self-control and sticking to a budget is something that is more effective compared to other solutions offered by the platform itself or other third-parties. Once that’s sorted, everything is smooth sailing out there.

In gambling addiction, looking for help is a good sign that the person wanted to recovers.  Remember addiction is not an disease that can be easily cured once the person is trapped.  Looking for help is a good sign that the person admitted and knows he is addicted but due to the uncontrolled urge, he is having difficulty in controlling himself.  Addiction nullified the person's control over himself so with outside help together with the gambling addicts will and effort to get cured, looking for outside factor in helping him recover his sanity is a good thing.  It will hasten the addicted gamblers recovery and rehabilitate himself to get full control of himself again and at the same time knows the things to do in order to avoid relapse.

Developing self-control and sticking to a budget is something that is more effective compared to other solutions offered by the platform itself or other third-parties. Once that’s sorted, everything is smooth sailing out there.

This thing is easy to do for those non-addicted gambler but once addiction hits them this capability to control oneself will deteriorate and become non-existent in the face of gambling activities.

[noormcs5]

Making your life even busier with more things. You can do everything you want to forget it. Hang out with your family or playing something that will make you able to stay away with your gadget or pc. You shall think about how to avoid the thing that mostly used by you to play gambling.
TBH, anything will need process, but it can become the easiest way to lowering your addiction to the gambling. There must be an intention that came from yourself to stop your addiction.

You can't stop it instantly but you can stay away from it gradually.

Absolutely, you are correct  keeping in touch with friends, family, loved ones would definitely help alot and also going out at will to catch fun other than that would  help but doing away with your gadget most times is difficult most when you are mostly a Tech guy constantly online doing your job would definitely  put you up for it but of one can take a step to disabling the site from their browser and adds I think it would go along way to help mitigate the gambling addiction.

We need to divert our attention to other things in order to keep our mind away from gambling and this is one of the effective ways to get rid of gambling addiction. If we are able to find something which is more interesting for us, other than gambling, for sure we will give more time to that activity and do not focus on gambling.

Again, this is more of a mind thinking game, where a gambler addict has to think from inside that he wants to get rid of his gambling addiction. If the gambler is not willing to do so, no power in the world can get rid of his addiction.

[mindrust]

If you feel or think here is not the right place for this you can say it. I am open to corrections as we all are here to learn.

It is all in your head. If you think gambling is harming you financially (or mentally), then you should stop doing it. Do you touch fire even though you know for a fact that you will get burned and it will hurt like hell? No you don't do that. The same logic applies to the gambling scenario. When it starts hurting you, you shouldn't do it anymore. Take professional help if you can't come up with this simple logic but if you can't do that much, I think the professionals probably won't be able to help you anyway.

Accepting that you have a problem solves 33% of the problem.
Wanting to solve the problem for real solves 66% of the problem.

Solving the problem is easy... It only takes 1% of your effort. (You just do it. -or don't-)

Most people don't even accept that they have a problem. That's why they are on an endless loop of destroying themselves.

[Fatunad]

Making your life even busier with more things. You can do everything you want to forget it. Hang out with your family or playing something that will make you able to stay away with your gadget or pc. You shall think about how to avoid the thing that mostly used by you to play gambling.
TBH, anything will need process, but it can become the easiest way to lowering your addiction to the gambling. There must be an intention that came from yourself to stop your addiction.

You can't stop it instantly but you can stay away from it gradually.

Absolutely, you are correct  keeping in touch with friends, family, loved ones would definitely help alot and also going out at will to catch fun other than that would  help but doing away with your gadget most times is difficult most when you are mostly a Tech guy constantly online doing your job would definitely  put you up for it but of one can take a step to disabling the site from their browser and adds I think it would go along way to help mitigate the gambling addiction.

We need to divert our attention to other things in order to keep our mind away from gambling and this is one of the effective ways to get rid of gambling addiction. If we are able to find something which is more interesting for us, other than gambling, for sure we will give more time to that activity and do not focus on gambling.

Again, this is more of a mind thinking game, where a gambler addict has to think from inside that he wants to get rid of his gambling addiction. If the gambler is not willing to do so, no power in the world can get rid of his addiction.

Distract yourself on something on which it isnt really that correlated or connected with gambling on which you would really be having that kind of mindset and control towards yourself because this is where most people do fail on doing so. On the time that you've been aware on how things should really be needing to adjust with and finding that you are already spending that much money with gambling, then why would really be deciding to play further or would really be engaging even more if you do see that you arent really that making good or does give out something positive when it comes to your finances? It all matters with acceptance and mindset
on which you would be sticking out on something that must thing to be done or things that could bring out for good.If you do tolerate out such addiction then you would really be putting yourself into that huge trouble
in terms of financial problems on which it is that something that we dont really like to happen in our lives because having this type of problem is never been simple on which having no money because of gambling?
You would really be always having those kind of common regret lines in the end.

[Vaskiy]

There is nothing wrong this your suggestions but to me is just left for the gambler to decide what is best for them, like as you do you can easily control yourself on your gambling process. Most times it could be very hard to do because there are always chance that man would want to gamble important game maybe you noticed that week could be a good week and you decided to place some bet. These are likely to those who often place bets on draw games as they plays weekly, but what would it take a gambler not to control his reasoning and actions towards gambling addiction.

As everything is possible sitting at the home with the mobile phone in the hand it is really tough to have control. Even if the person have decided to take a break, and if he had some leisure time surely his mind will think of gambling and he might give a try. If there is no access, then the person won't think of it. Such an opportunity isn't available and to be on the safer side, never think of having big money in the gambling platforms. When we have good balance, our minds will keep on thinking about it.

[darkangel11]

I am of the opinion that since gambling sites are mostly online and some has adds that pops up as advert on visited site, one should be able to disable or change their browser settings  by blocking casino adds and

This is an interesting point brought up by many in different situations.
So, there used to be a discussion more than 10 years ago on what is appropriate on billboards and some people complained that there should be no lingerie models on display because men get aroused and women were angry because their husbands were staring at it. Another point brought up to counter this was a question about how should women dress in public, because some of them expose too much. The answer from the billboard critics was that women who go out in lingerie ask to be raped. This answer basically killed the discussion, because if a guy cannot control himself and thinks of raping a girl after seeing panties, or gets aroused by a girl in stockings, it's his problem. It's him that is lacking something in his sex life. Why should the world bow to him?

Why am I talking about this? Because it relates to your statement that the gambling banners keep a gambler addicted. If a gambler cannot stop gambling because of a add, he's like a guy who can't stop masturbating when he sees a pretty girl. It's really his problem and he should seek help. If Internet gambling makes him sick, the simplest way is to go offline.

[DaNNy001]

I would have term this as a good measure but you restricting all the advert on casino isn't going to actually stop you from being a gambling addict because the major problem is actually from you and if you are not self discipline then you will always find your way back gambling.

An addiction is something someone has to discipline himself on and one fail to do so then every other methods is just like a set back strategy for the main time.

[Odusko]

Blocking everything about gambling as well as ads and promotions will surely help but it will require self discipline and proper control. Temtations will always be around us so it is important that we will be 100% dedicated to quiting. It needs a lot of courage and willingness to stop. It should be mind over matter or else our emotions will still be superior over us.
It is our personal decision to quit or to continue because even if we block everything about gambling, if we aren't willing to quit, then we will still find ways to gamble. We shouldn't rely on what we can do to avoid gambling but rather check ourselves if we're really willing to give up gambling.

Gambling ads have become most popular lately and most of the social media now allow for such adverts as a pop up, which interrupt users' sessions and being unable to stop them until you watch till the end and that sucks really hard and sometimes I wish I could have those ads blocked manually from my social media pages but if I do I may miss other ads that I could be interested in.
So the best thing to do is to build self-discipline and principles that keep me away from gambling even if I am bombarded with those ads I will never be tempted to deposit and gamble more than what I budget for my weekly fun, but there have been a lot of challenges in developing such self-control and discipline but it not entirely out of reach to build such self-control even though it may be hard to practice sometime, but if you want to escape addictions then you must have that self-restriction as a character you practice daily.

[rahmad2nd]

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Here is it;

I am of the opinion that since gambling sites are mostly online and some has adds that pops up as advert on visited site, one should be able to disable or change their browser settings  by blocking casino adds and as well disabling  gambling sites on their browser settings so as not to gain access to it anymore till the number of days they deem fit to their resolve. This was just a little tip I gave as a possible solution. I had to put it up here for further discussions so that the bigger community can see it as  well.
 

No ads or anything, if you have been exposed to a gambling addiction, the ideas you put out in this thread will not work IMO. I believe in one thing, but before that, I agree with the point that one member said that responsible gambling comes from within us and how we discipline ourselves.
Well, according to what you said, it is possible for someone to change their browser settings to prevent gambling related advertisements. however, the move is another factor and not the main point. Gambling addiction, can be caused by many factors behind it. in every case of gamblers, how to handle it will be different. not just avoid how to block ads or other and such. however, this is very closely related to us IMO.

For me any theory or idea, the point is in ourselves. believe, that we have full power over ourselves. if we had the notions like I said, at least someone wouldn't turn to gambling as a way to make a quick buck. or, wanting to get consistent big wins. ideally, we should have our own definition of gambling. what do we look for and want from gambling, this question must be answered by every gambler. well, for myself, gambling is part of the entertainment and can be used as a means of relaxation after activities from work routines. even then, there are rules that I have made a benchmark.

Speaking of addiction, I always say, if someone doesn't intend to end it and doesn't have a strong determination inside. they will be hard-pressed to let go of their dependency, even if they have blocked gambling ads like you said in this thread.

[Gozie51]

An addiction is something someone has to discipline himself on and one fail to do so then every other methods is just like a set back strategy for the main time.

That is it, it is either you pull yourself out if you want to stop or you are there. It is a personal decision to take and not by delimiting yourself from viewing casino apps. There are people who have worked on their emotion to stop but because they are not really serious, they are still struggling with it but some also have put themselves to stop finally. It is like a decision you take to stop smoking and other illicit activities like drugs, you have to put effort to stop it if you want at least by looking at the negative effect on you.

[Dzwaafu11]

Why blame the casino when it all borders around individual sef actions I don't think gambling addictions have anything to do with casinos' online advertisement since even before online gambling become popular we have hard cases of gambling addiction and that is what we must agree with and settle in our mind.

From what I read in the op, I didn't see where he blamed the online casinos. Yeah, I understand that it's individual action to stop gambling addiction, but understand that there are factors that contributed to these actions of developing gambling addiction, and if we should take take the preventive measure if will not happen. However, what the op stated can be among some of the factors that can prevent an individual from developing gambling addiction.

When someone thinks that whenever he or she sees any of the online casinos advertised online, he would love to gamble there, he can easily switch it off from the settings of such an app to avoid excess gambling, and I believe it will be a good move for them since they won't see any new online casinos to even think of gambling but rather they can be using the ones they have known so far, and It will not increase but rather reduce.

[CryptSafe]

An addiction is something someone has to discipline himself on and one fail to do so then every other methods is just like a set back strategy for the main time.

That is it, it is either you pull yourself out if you want to stop or you are there. It is a personal decision to take and not by delimiting yourself from viewing casino apps. There are people who have worked on their emotion to stop but because they are not really serious, they are still struggling with it but some also have put themselves to stop finally. It is like a decision you take to stop smoking and other illicit activities like drugs, you have to put effort to stop it if you want at least by looking at the negative effect on you.

Truly self discipline matters if one must do away with an act which they are no longer convenient with. Do you not think disabling gambling sites on your browser settings could help added to your own personal decision?  Even if you are always online for the fact that you already have that features active on your gadget, that would help you maintain your balance and you will not be able to access such site  as  you have planned.

[Josefjix]

Truly self discipline matters if one must do away with an act which they are no longer convenient with. Do you not think disabling gambling sites on your browser settings could help added to your own personal decision?  Even if you are always online for the fact that you already have that features active on your gadget, that would help you maintain your balance and you will not be able to access such site  as  you have planned.

We act on what's negative and positive. We are human, we know what's best alternative for us without hesitation. On the contrary, every gambling addiction knows themselves, the problem is that they got too comfortable with the system, and forget to apply preventive measures to stop the negative aspects of gambling which is gradually draining them. Self discipline is also an effective method to quit gambling, more like applying a disciplinary principles to regulates your activities concerning gambling, it usually take time but reduce the rate of gambling to its minimum level.

[Shamm]

Gambling addiction is best solved by having gambling budget which is very small to the amount you are earning, like 5% of the 100% you are earning.

Responsible gambling comes from inside you and how you discipline yourself, it is not about ads or anything.

But generally you should block ads, not just gambling ads, but because they are all frustrating. You can use ad blockers to block ads.

5% of our net income is quite good amount to gamble and yes you are right that 5% of our income makes us a disciplined gambler which means if we steady to gamble that amount then we won't loss big amount of money and we don't have problem for our daily needs it because the 95 % of our income are budget for our daily needs so the existing  5% is for our happiness that can make a money if we have our luck in our side.

[OcTradism]

5% of our net income is quite good amount to gamble and yes you are right that 5% of our income makes us a disciplined gambler which means if we steady to gamble that amount then we won't loss big amount of money and we don't have problem for our daily needs it because the 95 % of our income are budget for our daily needs so the existing  5% is for our happiness that can make a money if we have our luck in our side.

5% of income is bigger than annual interest rate from banks in many nations. It is very big amount if you want to use part of income for gambling and I think the amount should be smaller than 5%.

Not only because it is bigger than annual interest yield but it is also because you will likely lose the amount by gambling. But gambling is addictive and what will you do next after losing first 5% of income? Using another 5% of income to bet again? Repeat it a few times and you will reach to like 20% or 30% of your income and your life will be broken.

I would like to limit the amount to 1% of income for gambling.

[Sim_card]

5% of our net income is quite good amount to gamble and yes you are right that 5% of our income makes us a disciplined gambler which means if we steady to gamble that amount then we won't loss big amount of money and we don't have problem for our daily needs it because the 95 % of our income are budget for our daily needs so the existing  5% is for our happiness that can make a money if we have our luck in our side.

5% of income is bigger than annual interest rate from banks in many nations. It is very big amount if you want to use part of income for gambling and I think the amount should be smaller than 5%.

Not only because it is bigger than annual interest yield but it is also because you will likely lose the amount by gambling. But gambling is addictive and what will you do next after losing first 5% of income? Using another 5% of income to bet again? Repeat it a few times and you will reach to like 20% or 30% of your income and your life will be broken.

I would like to limit the amount to 1% of income for gambling.

Some gamblers think that 5% is very small but the fact is that if you continue using such amount for your gambling activities weekly or monthly it still shows that you are spending more on gambling. Anyway it all boils down to the individual gambling lifestyle and income that he is receiving. No matter the percentage that you set out for gambling from your income,gambling is based on luck and anyone who can't discipline himself in gambling will always become an addict. Using 2% is cool with me since I gamble during the weekend.

[retreat]

It is indeed quite challenging for someone to be able to quit online gambling addiction, because it is not that easy, even when blocking online gambling ads is not enough to stop someone from being able to stop gambling, they must be completely disconnected from the online world at some period of time to cure their addiction, there is no other way than this. Besides they have to intensively consult professionals, they also need people who will stop them when they want to gamble again. With this they may be able to recover from their gambling addiction.

[danherbias07]

I am of the opinion that since gambling sites are mostly online and some has adds that pops up as advert on visited site, one should be able to disable or change their browser settings  by blocking casino adds and as well disabling  gambling sites on their browser settings so as not to gain access to it anymore till the number of days they deem fit to their resolve. This was just a little tip I gave as a possible solution. I had to put it up here for further discussions so that the bigger community can see it as  well.

If you feel or think here is not the right place for this you can say it. I am open to corrections as we all are here to learn.

I do believe there's a way to do that. Something like an Ad Blocker or whatever they call them. That way you won't see those kinds of advertisements anymore. Or, the child mode in some settings, that's to protect the kids from watching such ads.
It is a good idea that you point this out. Many gamblers do start from just a simple ads and they become gambling addicts in the long run.
Perhaps, we could push something like the gambling site itself offering the application for free so that their ads will be blocked. Although, I am definitely sure it cannot be cleaned 100 percent because some blogs or websites can still avoid such blockers.