Addiction is 100% your choice:

[I_Anime]

Reasons why people get addicted to gambling have been discussed many times before and they truth is many people think differently for themselves, they think they are special that what happened to other gamblers can't happen to them, until they end up with the same result, gambling isn't something I can control, instead I follow a safer procedure.

I throw money here and there, always, and I've never feel like I must win when gambling, if you know what gambling truly means you won't want to force your way, in your life time you might never have anything to show for that you earned through gambling, it is what it is, simply a game of luck.

I have never expected anything great from gambling, the meaning is enough for me to look else where if I really want results, gambling is mostly disappoint you, its Better to not rely too much on gambling, risk only what you can afford to lose and if you ever get lucky always learn to take your rewards and come back some other day.

Nice point mate, most folks always have this high expectation in gambling in  hitting something huge oneday. though it may seems possible , but you still got to mind the way you approach it , because approaching gambling the wrong way may lead to one ruining his live one way to another, like at first we all know that gambling is not a means to get rich quick despite seeing others showcasing their wins through many means. And most time why they usually endup with such huge wins (if luck where on their side), is because of the amount of money they normally make use of during their gambling sections , and that same amount of money may be the amount of money they can afford to lose. so for you to go all in as an irresponsible gambler after encounting others showcasing their wins , is better to stake that you can afford lose and approach gambling the right way.

[RockBell]

That is why it's important to set limit to gambling to maintain a healthy gambling lifestyle, one must not start noticing addiction before they could limiting themselves from gambling. When one is getting to nice and more attention to gambling then he should know that gradually they are getting closer to addiction but however, you already spoken it all because if someone doesn't want to becoming addicted he won't.

Condition actually push people to do things that they are not suppose to do because I wonder how people just get easily blinded by the truth, they always find it very difficult to put a limit to what they are betting they have ways to make things easy for them self, like have a budget but when they have small assurance the next thing they will increase the amount of money they use in gambling just because they feel they can make more money, and they keep gambling given their self more hope, and reducing the attention you give to gambling will help a lot, and I feel those that don’t do anything and they gamble plenty of them always take that gambling as another means for them to be making money, because for some one to have a serious job am very sure you won’t have time to gamble the way you want.

[Franctoshi]

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 don't really agree that it 100% a choice, yes it really up to you as a gamble to control yourself in whatever thing you do when it comes betting, and you can only achieve this by setting boundaries, set rules and as well disciplines yourself so you don't become a victim addict, but however, the truth is that some people that become gamble addict today don't even know how they got there and in some cases, some addicts aren't even aware that they have become addict already.

[STT]

The premise of addiction as purely voluntary only works while you ignore actual physical reliance on substances is a real addiction that cannot be altered in one day.  Theres a physiological effect and so in turn addiction in part is the continuation of the habit because it can be near lethal to change that course, literally your body has that requirement even if its a bad one.   

The more controversial angle is where we start talking about purely habits of playing games for money like gambling is, is that physical.  Some argue that its little different as your brain is conditioned to want this particular activity for dopamine reliance.   Its not quite the same, the physical part cant kill you but we cant really call addiction a voluntary activity at its worst.

[Oilacris]

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 don't really agree that it 100% a choice, yes it really up to you as a gamble to control yourself in whatever thing you do when it comes betting, and you can only achieve this by setting boundaries, set rules and as well disciplines yourself so you don't become a victim addict, but however, the truth is that some people that become gamble addict today don't even know how they got there and in some cases, some addicts aren't even aware that they have become addict already.

Anything that you are doing then it is really that something that you are really that making up such decision on which its true that it would really be impossible that you cant really be able to determine on which one is good and which one is bad. On the moment that you are losing then you would be thinking up a certain point that you should quit, but since you do have that kind of impulsive emotion and your mind is really that making up those kind of desperation then you would really be
definitely be playing even more. Addiction is something like a disease that once it would really be happening into you then it would really be that hard for you to get out or overcome it. People would really be making out those kind of regrets but its already too late. So therefore, it would really be just that be basing up on how
you would really be making up decisions basing up into your condition.

[Dewi Aries]

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 don't really agree that it 100% a choice, yes it really up to you as a gamble to control yourself in whatever thing you do when it comes betting, and you can only achieve this by setting boundaries, set rules and as well disciplines yourself so you don't become a victim addict, but however, the truth is that some people that become gamble addict today don't even know how they got there and in some cases, some addicts aren't even aware that they have become addict already.

I agree and everything you said is true, as you said that the fact is most addicts do not know about how the scenario they can end up with addiction, meaning that addiction occurs unconsciously and not because of the intention from the beginning of being involved in gambling.

I think we all know about the bad situation that will impact life when we have reached the addiction phase, there is nothing positive that we can take from the addiction situation, meaning if addiction is 100% a choice from the beginning of someone being involved then the question is whether there are people who want to experience the various bad impacts that occur in their lives due to the influence of addiction? I don't think so at all.

[shield132]

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 agree with you that addiction is your choice but the situation isn't as easy as it sounds. I know many people who started gambling at a young age, since they were 14 years old. They were gambling, it was cool in our school class to play at casinos, parents weren't attentive because half of them were in migration and half of them worked every day for up to 12 hours. These kids lost lots of money as they grew up and many of them swore to stop gambling if they would get lost money back but this is the moment when they started diving down.
It was their choice to start gambling and it was their choice to don't start from a clean page but it's hard to blame them for all of these. It was a mixture of many mistakes that were made from them, from school, from parents and probably from relatives. They became a victim of all these.