Addiction is 100% your choice:

[bubilas]

Addiction in general I heard something very fair by an addict which was there was always a choice but only on the first drink.   After the first drink they fell into their old ways and were not able to stop themselves.

   The same probably applies to gambling or any other kind of addiction possible.  If you have no ability to levy control on yourself while gambling then its not going to work out and like above you have to avoid joining the same road which leads to your addiction.

    I always argue a fixed budget and use that daily like a schedule but I understand those measures wont work for some.  Good advice comes from people who faced down their addiction in the hardest way, dont start if you have no ability to stop is a smart choice.

Casinos know this very well and therefore bombard everyone who could at least potentially be their client with advertising. 
Once you select “slots, gambling, roulette” in the search engine a couple of times, targeted advertising begins to appear everywhere, from browsers to applications. 
And unfortunately, no one really knows their level of self-control until they experience it themselves.

Indeed, it keeps popping up and for sure there are people who will start showing their interest and will visit the site, and like what you mentioned no one knows how they can control their emotions, and same with the topic, addiction is your choice and how you work on it and how you manage to control your own decision making.

It's your choice to push and continue or to quit and stop to avoid more bleeding on both your finances and the time that you will spent once you became addicted.

Therefore, I do not entirely agree that the casino is the gambler’s choice, made exclusively by himself. We don't know all the mechanisms that marketers use to push us to one decision or another. And the promoters themselves know very well how to influence us, it’s not for nothing that they invest millions of dollars in the advertising industry.  And even more so in gambling advertising.
Even during Prime Time in the country where I live they started showing bookmaker advertisements. There's no hiding from this...

[junder]

If addiction does not have a severe effect on us then we have to know that we are not too addicted to that particular thing. Addiction can still be minimized and it is good we try as much to work on ourselves so we don't have to be complaining too much that we are not seeing any results. Addiction need to be controlled by us if we want to be getting results from what we are doing. When we are to in a hurry to be winning everytime we bet, we might be surprised that we could be addicted to such things. Gambling is meant to be fun not to be going in with full momentum without taking any risk management that could save us from stress.

People who are addicted to gambling certainly tend to experience bad impacts from many things, the main of which is financial, but this is not permanent because it can still be improved and the main thing is the thinking that must be addressed, when they are addicted they must be able to realize that they have experienced it. Many losses are caused by excessive gambling. Asking other people for help is one way you can do it, but even so, the key is within yourself.

There will be no addiction if from the start they have the thought and aim of gambling as just for entertainment, with those who become addicted, in my opinion it is because they are carried away further or are too serious about gambling. We must be able to balance everything. Gambling appropriately will not cause addiction. train ourselves continuously not to get addicted because once we are addicted it will be quite difficult to recover or recover. Sometimes there are people who are stressed and decide to gamble because it is used as a means of entertainment, that is not bad because gambling should be done for entertainment and fun.

[ethereumhunter]

I keep trying to be a gambler who is free to manage myself with gambling without disturbing others.

That's good for you because you realizes that playing gambling should be careful because gambling can makes us in a hard situation. We can disturb other people by accidentally especially when we lose our money in gambling and back to our home with an anger or sadness. If people in our home doesn't know anything about what we gets from gambling, they can make a wrong thing and that can make us in a difficult situation with them.

That will become worst if we are getting addicted to gambling. We will not care with everything around us because we are busy with what we do. Even we will not know what other people do because we are getting deeper in gambling and we feels that we are happy with what we do. The gambling addiction is our choice so we must stay away from gambling addiction if we don't want to gets a problem.

[lovesmayfamilis]

Therefore, I do not entirely agree that the casino is the gambler’s choice, made exclusively by himself. We don't know all the mechanisms that marketers use to push us to one decision or another. And the promoters themselves know very well how to influence us, it’s not for nothing that they invest millions of dollars in the advertising industry.  And even more so in gambling advertising.
Even during Prime Time in the country where I live they started showing bookmaker advertisements. There's no hiding from this...

This is why it is suggested that you start playing casino games as an adult who knows all the intricacies of marketers, understands how advertising works, and knows how to respond correctly. After all, all normal adults know that excessive use of medicine can have a very bad effect on their health, but the norm that the doctor prescribes cures them. In the same way, we all know about the dangers of drug addiction because we see the consequences and do not risk trying it on ourselves. But those people who do not have a stable psyche, or those young people with a fragile psyche, often fall into this crazy hole of excitement because either from their childhood they do not listen to advice or from disbelief that something negative can happen to them. An adult and normal person will play in a casino, understanding when and how to leave or stop correctly.

[Mr.suevie]

Almost 90% of the people who have a thing against gambling do so because they feel that gambling is addictive. But come to think of it, isn't addiction a choice? After reading lots of stories on the effects of being an addicted gambler, I feel it's 100% possible to tell myself that I can never be addicted to gambling and won't ever get addicted.

If for instance, I decide that I'm only going to gamble once a week and that at each time I will only gamble with an amount like $20 based on my current financial strength, would I ever become addicted to gambling?  Isn't it because you don't have any plan in place and just gamble as your spirit leads that makes you become careless with your gambling and become addicted to the process? Just want to ask this question;

Can you comfortably tell yourself that you have never been addicted to gambling and that you can never be addicted to gambling because of how you go about it?

I used to wonder why people would stake huge amounts gambling and throwing their money away, I used to think they are insane. But when I got into the lifestyle I gradually became what I was criticizing. I understood what they were going through and the reason why you can get trapped in the endless loop of gambling and losing everything you have.. you are right addiction is a choice, but people get addicted to gambling for different reasons and you might ask why it's hard for them to stop, Once you are hooked in this lifestyle coming out of it won't be easy, but you must do your best to overcome it.

[entertheabyss]

I used to wonder why people would stake huge amounts gambling and throwing their money away, I used to think they are insane. But when I got into the lifestyle I gradually became what I was criticizing. I understood what they were going through and the reason why you can get trapped in the endless loop of gambling and losing everything you have.. you are right addiction is a choice, but people get addicted to gambling for different reasons and you might ask why it's hard for them to stop, Once you are hooked in this lifestyle coming out of it won't be easy, but you must do your best to overcome it.

Addiction is 100% your choice which is simply true. The fact still remains, there will be losers and also profitable gamblers in the system. Addiction is definitely one of the great losses in the world of gambling. Once you're addicted, everything becomes very volatile on your ends, it doesn't matter the good picture or reputation you've set for yourself, gambling addiction ruined everything within a blink of an eye.

[Zigabel]

Therefore, I do not entirely agree that the casino is the gambler’s choice, made exclusively by himself. We don't know all the mechanisms that marketers use to push us to one decision or another. And the promoters themselves know very well how to influence us, it’s not for nothing that they invest millions of dollars in the advertising industry.  And even more so in gambling advertising.
Even during Prime Time in the country where I live they started showing bookmaker advertisements. There's no hiding from this...

Gambling advertisement is something they invest huge into it because they know how much they will be making if they are able to get the desired influence on a whole lot of people in such a way they get these people trying their luck on a daily basis, only a few gamblers are able to get pass this whole situation and still not fall in for the influence of the marketers and gambling advertisers. One thing I understand is that these gambling advertisers study the habit and characters of the gamblers and how best to influence them and making sure they are able to get things that will serve as a bait to get the gamblers hop on the platform and get their funds on the table and the house use their edge over them to get the best of them and getting them to keep coming back again.

[Stable090]

Addiction is definitely one of the great losses in the world of gambling. Once you're addicted, everything becomes very volatile on your ends, it doesn't matter the good picture or reputation you've set for yourself, gambling addiction ruined everything within a blink of an eye.

Gambling is fun and interesting, but the only problem that I always have with gamblers is addiction. If you are addicted to gambling, you are already getting everything wrong. You will end up doing crazy things that you are not supposed to do, and you end up hurting yourself and people around you. Because money that is supposed to be spent on other important things will end up being spent on gambling, even taking care of family problems will be difficult because all the money will be diverted to gambling, and before you realize you are getting everything wrong, it might be late already.

[Swordsoffreedom]

I used to wonder why people would stake huge amounts gambling and throwing their money away, I used to think they are insane. But when I got into the lifestyle I gradually became what I was criticizing. I understood what they were going through and the reason why you can get trapped in the endless loop of gambling and losing everything you have.. you are right addiction is a choice, but people get addicted to gambling for different reasons and you might ask why it's hard for them to stop, Once you are hooked in this lifestyle coming out of it won't be easy, but you must do your best to overcome it.

Addiction is 100% your choice which is simply true. The fact still remains, there will be losers and also profitable gamblers in the system. Addiction is definitely one of the great losses in the world of gambling. Once you're addicted, everything becomes very volatile on your ends, it doesn't matter the good picture or reputation you've set for yourself, gambling addiction ruined everything within a blink of an eye.

It is true that addiction is completely dependent on one's choice. But I would say it is mostly due to weak will. People who can control themselves, and are mentally strong do not get addicted to anything very quickly. But most people cannot remain mentally strong. And so they get addicted to different things very quickly. Drugs or gambling are one of them.

If we don't want to become addicted to gambling, we must be aware first of all. We must know what we are doing. If we are not aware then very quickly we will become addicted to gambling.

Another good way to stay away from addiction is to be aware of the dangers of gambling addiction. If we know the dangers of gambling addiction, then we will always try not to get addicted to gambling.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

If any gambler is addicted to gambling, then we should check from the way in which he is gambling and see on what had been wronged from the way they are gambling, so i will also go by accepting that addiction is all our choice, we choose the way to gamble, how to gamble, when to do it as well as the strategies to adopt in gambling, then if it was seen that from all these, we are still involved with addiction from the way we are gambling, its then our personal challenge to pick the fight against it before it turned what we cant control anymore.

[rachael9385]

Almost 90% of the people who have a thing against gambling do so because they feel that gambling is addictive. But come to think of it, isn't addiction a choice? After reading lots of stories on the effects of being an addicted gambler, I feel it's 100% possible to tell myself that I can never be addicted to gambling and won't ever get addicted.

If for instance, I decide that I'm only going to gamble once a week and that at each time I will only gamble with an amount like $20 based on my current financial strength, would I ever become addicted to gambling?  Isn't it because you don't have any plan in place and just gamble as your spirit leads that makes you become careless with your gambling and become addicted to the process? Just want to ask this question;

Can you comfortably tell yourself that you have never been addicted to gambling and that you can never be addicted to gambling because of how you go about it?

I used to wonder why people would stake huge amounts gambling and throwing their money away, I used to think they are insane. But when I got into the lifestyle I gradually became what I was criticizing. I understood what they were going through and the reason why you can get trapped in the endless loop of gambling and losing everything you have.. you are right addiction is a choice, but people get addicted to gambling for different reasons and you might ask why it's hard for them to stop, Once you are hooked in this lifestyle coming out of it won't be easy, but you must do your best to overcome it.

Addiction is not a choice that any gambler will choose. It's just that the gambler can't stop gambling and it's either because of how much he lost or how regular his gambling. If one is staking more than 3 times a day and fortunately he became addicted to gamble it means that he's actions made him addicted and not his choice, (hope you understand what am trying to say?). If addiction is a choice non of those who is addicted to gamble today will ever choose it.

[Dailyscript]

Almost 90% of the people who have a thing against gambling do so because they feel that gambling is addictive. But come to think of it, isn't addiction a choice? After reading lots of stories on the effects of being an addicted gambler, I feel it's 100% possible to tell myself that I can never be addicted to gambling and won't ever get addicted.

If for instance, I decide that I'm only going to gamble once a week and that at each time I will only gamble with an amount like $20 based on my current financial strength, would I ever become addicted to gambling?  Isn't it because you don't have any plan in place and just gamble as your spirit leads that makes you become careless with your gambling and become addicted to the process? Just want to ask this question;

Can you comfortably tell yourself that you have never been addicted to gambling and that you can never be addicted to gambling because of how you go about it?

I used to wonder why people would stake huge amounts gambling and throwing their money away, I used to think they are insane. But when I got into the lifestyle I gradually became what I was criticizing. I understood what they were going through and the reason why you can get trapped in the endless loop of gambling and losing everything you have.. you are right addiction is a choice, but people get addicted to gambling for different reasons and you might ask why it's hard for them to stop, Once you are hooked in this lifestyle coming out of it won't be easy, but you must do your best to overcome it.

Dont beat yourself on it. I do sometimes and my reason for doing so is because staking high on low odds gives me more wins than losses. I have tried several times in staking low odds but added multiple games from 7 - 15. Yet as low as the odds are I end up losing the game. That is why I decided to start staking high on low odd. It is better to risk on one game and put your money in it, so that if you win it you know you do not have any other pending games on the bet slip. Rather than having so many games in a bet slip that you need to be checking every few minute if its going as plan or not.

Addiction to gambling gradually comes and it may take you sometime to figure out that you are addicted already or perhaps with the help of a friend, colleague or family member you can find out you are addicted and be liberated from it.

[Accardo]

Addiction is definitely one of the great losses in the world of gambling. Once you're addicted, everything becomes very volatile on your ends, it doesn't matter the good picture or reputation you've set for yourself, gambling addiction ruined everything within a blink of an eye.

Gambling is fun and interesting, but the only problem that I always have with gamblers is addiction. If you are addicted to gambling, you are already getting everything wrong. You will end up doing crazy things that you are not supposed to do, and you end up hurting yourself and people around you. Because money that is supposed to be spent on other important things will end up being spent on gambling, even taking care of family problems will be difficult because all the money will be diverted to gambling, and before you realize you are getting everything wrong, it might be late already.

Gambling addiction signifies a lack of attention and weakness. These are two things a player should avoid. In all gambling journeys, challenges always stay around the corner. Staying fully engaged in every single session that we begin, will strengthen us to pay attention. During their early days before getting addicted, Addicts didn't care to examine themselves. The few challenges players felt, were normalized. Which negligence, compounded the problems, and led to addiction. It'll always be presented to the player unexpectedly.

If a player isn't lost in details, he'll bypass addiction. Take a brief thought on addiction and the reason they got into this trouble. You'd find a significant relationship; carelessness. A lot of money is on the line to be exhausted. Gambling isn't a joke and must be taken seriously. Without meanness, many people would suffer the pains of a player's negligence in detail. Hence, a player must have his family in mind, and follow a route that won't endanger their future.

[Adbitco]

Addiction is definitely one of the great losses in the world of gambling. Once you're addicted, everything becomes very volatile on your ends, it doesn't matter the good picture or reputation you've set for yourself, gambling addiction ruined everything within a blink of an eye.

Gambling is fun and interesting, but the only problem that I always have with gamblers is addiction. If you are addicted to gambling, you are already getting everything wrong. You will end up doing crazy things that you are not supposed to do, and you end up hurting yourself and people around you. Because money that is supposed to be spent on other important things will end up being spent on gambling, even taking care of family problems will be difficult because all the money will be diverted to gambling, and before you realize you are getting everything wrong, it might be late already.

Like the title said, people are only making fun out of nothing why because if responsibleness is being applied it would be very easier to control moreover when they don't think gambling is the only way to make life more better. When people began to place more value and priority to gambling then it's gradually creating ways to gambling addiction but however if they began to narrow down their thinking and mindset towards creating parts from gambling and think of the only fun aspect of it the best and better they don't get addicted to gambling.

[wxa7115]

Gambling addiction signifies a lack of attention and weakness. These are two things a player should avoid. In all gambling journeys, challenges always stay around the corner. Staying fully engaged in every single session that we begin, will strengthen us to pay attention. During their early days before getting addicted, Addicts didn't care to examine themselves. The few challenges players felt, were normalized. Which negligence, compounded the problems, and led to addiction. It'll always be presented to the player unexpectedly.

If a player isn't lost in details, he'll bypass addiction. Take a brief thought on addiction and the reason they got into this trouble. You'd find a significant relationship; carelessness. A lot of money is on the line to be exhausted. Gambling isn't a joke and must be taken seriously. Without meanness, many people would suffer the pains of a player's negligence in detail. Hence, a player must have his family in mind, and follow a route that won't endanger their future.

There are many reasons why a person can get addicted, and some of them are outside of what a person can control, as there are people out there that have an ability to control their impulses that is not optimal, so they are more likely to get addicted to almost any activity that is pleasurable.

So those people need help on the form of medicines which may help them to reduce those impulses, and once under that treatment, it will be easier for them to not get addicted or to leave an addiction they already have.

[Z_MBFM]

Can you comfortably tell yourself that you have never been addicted to gambling and that you can never be addicted to gambling because of how you go about it?

I will also agree with you that whether or not you are addicted to gambling is entirely up to you.  Gamblers who exercise self-control while gambling are the only ones who can keep themselves free from gambling addiction. And the saying Addiction is 100% your choice applies to them. I personally think that gambling should be taken only as entertainment. If someone goes to gambling and thinks that he will lead his life through it, then they end up falling into the trap of gambling addiction.

[$weetne$$]

Like the title said, people are only making fun out of nothing why because if responsibleness is being applied it would be very easier to control moreover when they don't think gambling is the only way to make life more better. When people began to place more value and priority to gambling then it's gradually creating ways to gambling addiction but however if they began to narrow down their thinking and mindset towards creating parts from gambling and think of the only fun aspect of it the best and better they don't get addicted to gambling.

Nothing can happen to you without you allowing it to happen but people do not want to accept the reality that they are the reason why they are gambling in addicted way. The choices is always ours but we choose to ignore all the warnings we will get in the beginning and when it has gotten to the stage that it is uncontrollable, it gets exposed to everybody that we are gambling addicts. There is nothing stopping us from seeking help when we notice we are developing addiction problems from the symptoms that we are getting like always going after our losses and not getting tired of gambling regardless of the results that we get. Addiction starts slowly therefore if we monitor our gambling activities, we can avoid addiction or start treating the symptoms that we are noticing and we will be alright.

[danherbias07]

I used to wonder why people would stake huge amounts gambling and throwing their money away, I used to think they are insane. But when I got into the lifestyle I gradually became what I was criticizing. I understood what they were going through and the reason why you can get trapped in the endless loop of gambling and losing everything you have.. you are right addiction is a choice, but people get addicted to gambling for different reasons and you might ask why it's hard for them to stop, Once you are hooked in this lifestyle coming out of it won't be easy, but you must do your best to overcome it.

Addiction is 100% your choice which is simply true. The fact still remains, there will be losers and also profitable gamblers in the system. Addiction is definitely one of the great losses in the world of gambling. Once you're addicted, everything becomes very volatile on your ends, it doesn't matter the good picture or reputation you've set for yourself, gambling addiction ruined everything within a blink of an eye.

Always be losers. Those who make money through gambling are very rare and if they want to keep it that way, they might as well never go back into gambling after winning. Those are the real winners in my opinion.
Truly, gambling addiction is a choice because we are sane while we are betting and we also know what and how much we are losing because I bet we are counting them, although we are not writing it, everything is in our mind that we have not recovered our losses yet.
When I started gambling using the new applications locally, that's when I started counting all my losses because I was also using our local currency. The worst part is, converted to USD, I may have lost more using that application than the international popular gambling sites. I stopped when I counted it all and never went back again. Choice.

[Coin_trader]

Nothing can happen to you without you allowing it to happen but people do not want to accept the reality that they are the reason why they are gambling in addicted way. The choices is always ours but we choose to ignore all the warnings we will get in the beginning and when it has gotten to the stage that it is uncontrollable, it gets exposed to everybody that we are gambling addicts. There is nothing stopping us from seeking help when we notice we are developing addiction problems from the symptoms that we are getting like always going after our losses and not getting tired of gambling regardless of the results that we get. Addiction starts slowly therefore if we monitor our gambling activities, we can avoid addiction or start treating the symptoms that we are noticing and we will be alright.

I will agree if the addiction we are talking about is an addiction to substance such as illegal drugs, weed and so on that affects directly the brain to give temporary satisfaction to the user because this is 100% by choice.

I disagree if this about gambling addiction because there’s no one wants to lose money continuously since there’s no satisfaction for doing that. I agree that gambler choose the path of gambling knowing the risk of addiction but having an addiction is not a 100% choice because gambling addiction doesn’t provide satisfaction unless you keep winning.

No one in their right mind will voluntarily choose to become addicted in gambling that will lead them to huge financial loss. It’s easy to rehab gambling addicted person compared to substance addiction because it’s not their choice to become addicted.

[Sandra_hakeem]

Like the title said, people are only making fun out of nothing why because if responsibleness is being applied it would be very easier to control moreover when they don't think gambling is the only way to make life more better.

Gambling has never been a way to make life better...Do we really have people that'd gamble just for fun? Without thinking of the Benefits at the end? ."You don't create a thing by destroying your creation materials, you improvise ". This is one of the reasons why I laugh at almost every story being told in here; it's always about gambling in way to cool off from the day's stress, or wagering on games in camp as they sometimes get bored..IMHO, it's quite unlikely that - that is always the case.

Meanwhile, in most cases, there's never an opportunity to decide what you can control... Have you ever heard of the term PEER INFLUENCE?  It gets very detrimental atimes if I must say.