Determine how often you gamble maybe it's once a week bi weekly or once a month.
Setting your own bar on how long you want to gamble or how much money you want to gamble is a good method to control your gambling related spending. There are people who are struggling to keep this going because it takes self-discipline and composed state to execute and gamblers lack these habits, reason why they became addicted in the first place.
But once they start doing it they will be able to overcome their addiction and eventually reduce the budget and end up with being able to save their savings.
The nature of gambling is such that it makes you play more by infusing the competitive spirit in you. The way to conquer this is to understand that your battle is not with the casino but with yourself.
How would one conclude within him that he's battling himself? That wouldn't be a battle. Generally, everyone feels the need to get, by force, the losses incurred in gambling. Although the self control sets in the moment a player have experienced the downside of such habit and decides to control it. Most players get swept off to the floor for not realizing the poor gambling habit they exhibit. Which ends up landing them to a financial trouble. Setting up an effective strategy helps the player to draw the line when he should.
The issue is not knowing when to take action. That's why players are being told of preparations. Since gambling is seen, by majority, as a competition, nobody goes for a such events without training or preparations. But most players think making money out of the game is the sole aim and nothing else should be acknowledge. Limitations and self control two strong factors that helps in preventing losing streaks, are being neglected, by new players, at a speed of light. It sounds unfamiliar, that's not what there were told, initially, of gambling. Not knowing how deep and exhausting gaming can become, leads to the damage of self control in most gamblers.