When another addiction fuels gambling addiction.

[MAAManda]

When it becomes difficult for someone is addicted to gambling to quit. I think its not just about quitting gambling he has to do, if he as any other thing he is addicted to he should first quit on those ones because quitting those ones might make him lose interest automatically in gambling.

I've had this thought for a long time, thinking that one is connected to the other. So, if someone wants to get out of an addiction, he must also get out of the addiction that might trigger his desire for another addiction.

But, based on my observation, not all of that is true. I have a friend who used to be addicted to gambling & drinking, now he has gotten out of his gambling addiction, even I never see him playing anymore.

Then what about his drinking addcition? He still has a drinking addiction to this day.

[Findingnemo]

When it becomes difficult for someone is addicted to gambling to quit. I think its not just about quitting gambling he has to do, if he as any other thing he is addicted to he should first quit on those ones because quitting those ones might make him lose interest automatically in gambling.

I know some guy who is not into any alcohol even cigarette but he is highly addicted to Gambling, spend almost everything on lottery and other high rewarding games with the hope of getting rich, so it's not like impossible for someone to become addicted to Gambling without any other addiction prior to that.

But it's true, we often see them being addicted to more than once and it just makes things too complicated.

[Yucky]

Exactly, it doesn't always work that way. There are some people who are actually addicted to gambling alone, there are also some people who are addicted to smoking, drinking, and gambling together and they have to stop their addiction in every aspect.

And there might be a connection between their gambling and other addiction. going to the casino, having beer, being around smoke, and playing might be their complete package, so I get what the author is saying. In order to stop such addictive gambler, they have to stop their other addictions as well. They have to stop everything.

But It's really not easy because, from what I understood, when someone is addicted to something, especially a substance, if they don't take it in a day, they feel like they're about to die. It would take a long process, but it's possible if the person is willing to quit.

[Stablexcoin]

Don't you think they can be addicted to both like alcohol or weed and gambling?  And then he may not be able to gamble if he isn't high so he needs to get high before gambling. Some people can think clearly when high.

That is the topic of OP, addiction to alcohol and substances can create a greater effect to gambling addiction, if the mind is unstable and fueled by those substances, it becomes more enjoyable to the gambler, since all of them are for entertainment and fun it will be done excessively.

If getting addiction to another thing can be a good strategy to quit gambling, I think its a better strategy. Say one will be addicted to gym exercise or Sauna. Or addicted to coffee, I think I'd prefer that just to quit gambling.

It depends on what, if it's resources consuming, then it is no different from gambling addiction. In order to quit addiction, some persons get addicted to more working hours and exercise, something helpful to the body other than hard substance that still negatively affect the body.

[WeedGoW]

There are different types of people in the world who are addicted to different types of addicts to smoking alcohol or alcohol national things. When another addiction such as smoking is in the middle of the addiction, his tide addiction also increases and it worsens the person’s mental health condition and worse. These addictions act as helpful to each other, which makes a person easily fall into an addiction after a later, this process creates a kind of pathological cycle. Which makes it difficult for a man to get out of, so it has to protect themselves from such addiction. And make yourself in such a way that it doesn’t get boundaries. You have to always try to keep yourself within the boundaries.

[coin-investor]

Substances like like alcohol or stimulants addiction (drinking), Nicotine dopamine and weed addiction (smoking), to mention a few others can influence a responsible gambler into becoming addicted. There are people in the society who gamble to humanize, smoke or drink, or go out on expensive rides and stuffs.

Yes, it does I have seenit happen to many of my friends and at one time to me, there is something on smoking and drinking that lets you want to go on even if in the normal state you just stop. its stimulation is produced by smoking and drinking.
A friend even admitted that he wants to gamble because when he plays, he likes the taste of the liquor and the effects it produce more than when he is drinking and not gambling; one of these fuels the others so if you're smoking and start to gamble, understand the risk that you are exposing yourself to high-risk on both.

[Free Market Capitalist]

You never know which came first, the chicken or the egg. But you do know about poly-drug addictions, which are common. Normally people are not only hooked on heroin for example, they usually also smoke or use other drugs. I would say it is the same for gambling. Tobacco, alcohol and caffeine would be the drugs most commonly consumed by the problem gambler, being the legal ones, but also others.

[rachael9385]

Always making sure this is brief as possible.

From my observation on addiction, i get to see how addiction is like a chain. Individuals moving from one addiction to another and how several addictions or one addiction can give birth/rise to the gambling addiction. We can all agree as an individual there are several things in life we can be addicted to aside gambling.

Substances like like alcohol or stimulants addiction (drinking), Nicotine dopamine and weed addiction (smoking), to mention a few others can influence a responsible gambler into becoming addicted. There are people in the society who gamble to humanize, smoke or drink, or go out on expensive rides and stuffs.

When it becomes difficult for someone is addicted to gambling to quit. I think its not just about quitting gambling he has to do, if he as any other thing he is addicted to he should first quit on those ones because quitting those ones might make him lose interest automatically in gambling.

I know someone that's a Gambling addict who takes drugs, before he started gambling he's not the type that drinks, smokes or take drugs but when he got addicted to gambling the pain and losses made him rely on drugs. In the long run these drugs fueled his gambling addiction, he became more obsessed with gambling. Drugs, alcohol or so on affects your cognitive reasoning and makes you do some irrational things, this is the reason why they are always free in land based casinos. I don't know about drugs but in land based casinos alcohol is always free, this strategy is too make gamblers distabilizes mentally so they can lose what they have.

[Hispo]

Always making sure this is brief as possible.

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Though, I have always though gambling addiction can be fueled by other addictions which require money for those addicted people to continue to continue the first addiction. Let us talk about those people who are addicted to cocaine or opioids first, they may start to fuel their addiction using money they get through work or through savings, but when those sources of income are depleted because they cannot longer function, they could feel tempted to move onto gambling with the hope of winning enough money to continue buying drugs, alcohol, opioids or whatever they need to keep their first addiction going.

I agree addictions are a chain, and not necessarily the first step in such a chain is gambling, there are too many circumstances which could push people to engage in reckless gambling...

[Slow death]

From my observation on addiction, i get to see how addiction is like a chain. Individuals moving from one addiction to another and how several addictions or one addiction can give birth/rise to the gambling addiction. We can all agree as an individual there are several things in life we can be addicted to aside gambling.

In most cases, addicted people only have 1 addiction, for example a person addicted to gambling, can consume alcohol and smoke and not be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes. in the same way that a person addicted to drugs can gamble and not become addicted to drugs.

This is because smoking, drugs, alcohol and gambling require money for people to access. Therefore, a person addicted to drugs will spend all their money on drugs and will hardly spend it all on gambling.

[Mehmet69]

Always making sure this is brief as possible.

From my observation on addiction, i get to see how addiction is like a chain. Individuals moving from one addiction to another and how several addictions or one addiction can give birth/rise to the gambling addiction. We can all agree as an individual there are several things in life we can be addicted to aside gambling.

Substances like like alcohol or stimulants addiction (drinking), Nicotine dopamine and weed addiction (smoking), to mention a few others can influence a responsible gambler into becoming addicted. There are people in the society who gamble to humanize, smoke or drink, or go out on expensive rides and stuffs.

When it becomes difficult for someone is addicted to gambling to quit. I think its not just about quitting gambling he has to do, if he as any other thing he is addicted to he should first quit on those ones because quitting those ones might make him lose interest automatically in gambling.

Obviously this things you just mentioned here does not have anything to do with quitting from gambling. You know is very easy for someone who is addicted into smoking to quit from it, than that of gambling addict. Because a smoker don't always think about the money he spent ever since he got engaged into smoking, why a gambling addict will always find it very hard to quit more especially when he keep remembering his losses at it point he won't think of putting an end to it. This is why in my opinion I think quitting from smoking or drinking is very easy than that of quiting from gambling.

A person does not get addicted to anything very easily. A person has to spend a lot of time on any subject or object, then it becomes an addiction. I find one reason behind men's addiction to gambling, smoking, alcohol, etc. is loneliness. A common person suddenly becomes addicted to addiction due to thinking badly about himself. Lack of entertainment leads people to turn to drugs/addiction . A person becomes addicted to gambling due to financial problems.

In my opinion, gambling is not a bad thing at all. Gambling is done for entertainment. A person does not get the respect he needs in his social environment. As a result, he searches for different platforms for some respect and entertainment. So, where he finds respect and entertainment, the person returns to that place again and again. Gambling or any addiction helps to make the person happy. The loneliness of the person disappears. People become addicted to drugs because they have no one to share their sorrows with.

We do not have to adopt thousands of methods to get an addicted person out of his addiction. If we can just share their pain, we can get them out of their addiction in 90% of cases.

[Felicity_Tide]

Always making sure this is brief as possible.

From my observation on addiction, i get to see how addiction is like a chain. Individuals moving from one addiction to another and how several addictions or one addiction can give birth/rise to the gambling addiction. We can all agree as an individual there are several things in life we can be addicted to aside gambling.

Substances like like alcohol or stimulants addiction (drinking), Nicotine dopamine and weed addiction (smoking), to mention a few others can influence a responsible gambler into becoming addicted. There are people in the society who gamble to humanize, smoke or drink, or go out on expensive rides and stuffs.

When it becomes difficult for someone is addicted to gambling to quit. I think its not just about quitting gambling he has to do, if he as any other thing he is addicted to he should first quit on those ones because quitting those ones might make him lose interest automatically in gambling.

Trying to quite every addiction at the same time will certainly take time and more effort from the addict. I can't imagine someone having both gambling and alcoholic addiction. That's already a bad combo for such a person. One thing I believe might help is when gamblers starts putting their health first.

When one's health is affected by either gambling addiction or any other form of addiction, making a recovery demands alot. Gambling addictions affects the health, so as other form of addictions do. Sorting one problem might not necessarily change the other. But when an addict sees a reason to put his/her health first, then that's already the beginning of recovery.

[Pablo-wood]

Always making sure this is brief as possible.

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Though, I have always though gambling addiction can be fueled by other addictions which require money for those addicted people to continue to continue the first addiction. Let us talk about those people who are addicted to cocaine or opioids first, they may start to fuel their addiction using money they get through work or through savings, but when those sources of income are depleted because they cannot longer function, they could feel tempted to move onto gambling with the hope of winning enough money to continue buying drugs, alcohol, opioids or whatever they need to keep their first addiction going.

I agree addictions are a chain, and not necessarily the first step in such a chain is gambling, there are too many circumstances which could push people to engage in reckless gambling...

There is a strong point here. But what if this addicts adds stealing and robbery just to fuel all three additions. An addict most times losses control of their consciousness when the urge to do this things arises. The might go any length to meet this urge. Some will start from taking things from the house without the owners consent and gradually advance into street pickers and slowly into the high ways.

An addict doesn't see money has a barrier to satisfying their cravings. They might sell off properties both theirs and those they steal just to satisfy this urge. Some will go as far as begging and doing jobs to satisfy this urge. Addiction Is bad and it's grip on a victim is always terrible.

[uneng]

It can be that one addiction fuels another, because the primary addiction in constantly raising the vulnerability of the individual, what means he is prone to be more impulsive and careless on his decisions motivated by the primary addiction, which can be drugs from different natures or alcohol.

It's important to identify what the individual's purpose is when developing addictions. He might be trying to run or escape from problems he is facing in personal life and can't solve properly. He might be just playing around, without any notion he is actually playing with fire. He might be trying to impress someone through spending money on drinks and with gambling.

Once you identify the original cause, it becomes easier to understand which way should be taken towards recovery.

[Jewan420]

I don't see much connection between gambling addiction and drug addiction. There are many people who are addicted to gambling but are afraid of drugs, or there are people who are addicted to drugs but are not addicted to gambling. Rather, they are afraid of gambling and refrain from gambling. You don't have to travel to the moon to find such people, they are around you. I find such a nature among my friends.

The way to get rid of gambling addiction and drug addiction is not the same, nor are they built on the same formula. A person addicted to gambling has to make a commitment on his own and try to take a break from gambling with the help of his family. When you are running a family and busy at work, you may give up gambling addiction on your own. There may be old habits, but it is not an addiction. Drug addiction is completely different, you have to give it up gradually. It is almost impossible to get rid of drug addiction without the help of your second person.

[Mrbluntzy]

When it becomes difficult for someone is addicted to gambling to quit. I think its not just about quitting gambling he has to do, if he as any other thing he is addicted to he should first quit on those ones because quitting those ones might make him lose interest automatically in gambling.

I don't know if you can remember one of my thread that I spoke about the willingness of someone to stop their addiction, that's because I also thought of it that addicted individuals had something which services their addiction, that's what give them reason to be addicted and until they willingly make up their mind that they want to change they will not even if they are receiving treatment.

[Kelward]

I think that stoping addiction depends on the individual's will power, if the addict makes a decision to stop all his addictions at once, it can be possible. But I don't think that it'll be easy to stoping one addictions that will affect gambling addiction to stop too. I've never heard of any addict with such experience but I believe that it can happen and it will depend on the addicts will power or determination to stop all the addictions all at once. It's easier for a drug addict to stop smoking addiction too because they are similar but gambling addiction is different, it is caused by greed to win.

[GeorgeJohn]

The possibility of someone to have two chain of addiction is very high, for we to be addicted in the gambling, it's because we have loss much in the gambling, maybe we are looking for a way to get rid of the loss in the gambling

So theirs is every tendency that such kind of addiction can be stop, through advice and through relocation,gambling is easy to stop when you're addicted.

Someone who is smoker and is addicted in smoking, it will be difficult for the person to stop smoking, and when advising the person, it will not comprehend you, unlike when you're advising someone who is gambler, so theirs different between someone who is gambling addicted and someone who is not smoking addict and drinking addict.

[Pi-network314159]

When it becomes difficult for someone is addicted to gambling to quit. I think its not just about quitting gambling he has to do, if he as any other thing he is addicted to he should first quit on those ones because quitting those ones might make him lose interest automatically in gambling.

if a person is addicted to other things adding to gambling, and he decided to stop other form of addiction that is attached to the gambling addiction, then i don't think if that will have any positive response on the gambling habit except he works on the gambling habit. what i mean is that if a person is addicted to smoking, drinking, womanizing, taken hard drugs and weed, and the person decides to stop all this addiction apart from gambling, that will not guarantee that addiction of gambling will automatically stop except he starts to work on the gambling addiction.  

[AmaGold70]

Always making sure this is brief as possible.

From my observation on addiction, i get to see how addiction is like a chain. Individuals moving from one addiction to another and how several addictions or one addiction can give birth/rise to the gambling addiction. We can all agree as an individual there are several things in life we can be addicted to aside gambling.

Substances like like alcohol or stimulants addiction (drinking), Nicotine dopamine and weed addiction (smoking), to mention a few others can influence a responsible gambler into becoming addicted. There are people in the society who gamble to humanize, smoke or drink, or go out on expensive rides and stuffs.

When it becomes difficult for someone is addicted to gambling to quit. I think its not just about quitting gambling he has to do, if he as any other thing he is addicted to he should first quit on those ones because quitting those ones might make him lose interest automatically in gambling.

Obviously this things you just mentioned here does not have anything to do with quitting from gambling. You know is very easy for someone who is addicted into smoking to quit from it, than that of gambling addict. Because a smoker don't always think about the money he spent ever since he got engaged into smoking, why a gambling addict will always find it very hard to quit more especially when he keep remembering his losses at it point he won't think of putting an end to it. This is why in my opinion I think quitting from smoking or drinking is very easy than that of quiting from gambling.

I don't think is that possible for someone that is addicted to smoking to quit just like that. because though most of them don't always believe that they are addicted to smoking, even when they tell them to stop they would still not listen allex when it will start affecting them before they will believe that they are addicted, and by then it have start affecting them in their system. So is not that easy as you think for someone that is already addicted to smoking.