When another addiction fuels gambling addiction.

[danherbias07]

OP you have made points actually, even in some clubs they play gamble there which means by frequently going the club every time, such a gambler may become addicted to gambling even though it mostly involves physical gambling so quitting some social bad habits like the ones you made mention of alcoholic intake, smoking and all the rest can fuel addiction in gambling because some persons say they get inspiration to gamble when they are smoking tobacco or drinking alcohol which then means that if they could stay away from those addiction they can possibly reduce or quit gambling too because there will be nothing to give them the vibes anymore.

Some people can get into gambling and might become addicted eventually as a result of habit or activity that they are addicted to, it could be drinking, smoking or where they socialize that they are addicted to. It is either that they are looking for an escape from their addiction and enter into gambling or they get into it because everybody in the environment gambles excessively. But I think that majority of people that becomes addicted in gambling is as a result greed to recover loses and make quick money, not necessarily that they became addicted as a result of another addiction.

I think mostly from trying to recover the losses. Greed will always be there, but it's the satisfaction of a person that must be considered. There are people who can live with a little win, and they won't go back afterwards. But those who lost way too much will always have the urge to come back and get their revenge, which fuels their gambling time, and it could lead to addiction.

You are right, some use gambling as an escape for their other addiction, but sometimes it gets worse, too. Let's say a person is an alcoholic, and there are alcoholic drinks available in a physical casino. Those who are drug addicts can think of using gambling to make money to buy more drugs, so it will all still depend on the person.

[michellee]

Yes, indeed, although I am a person who, if I see that a person has a way of doing things and I like their style, then I see nothing wrong with copying it and perhaps Giving it a personal touch, it is a question of seeing what good things some people have and one copies them , of course the important thing in all this is that you manage to have control of your money at the time of playing, it does not matter how many emotions you have, the idea is that you do not lose more money.

But it is not recommended to copying his habit in gambling especially if you don't have good control over yourself. You will drag into gambling deeper without you realize and make you addicted to gambling in shortly.

If you want to copying his style, you should filter what is the good thing on him so you will not get any problem. You should leave the bad thing on him and just take the good. Doing that, you will also get a good thing but depend on you how you can use that good thing because the result will be different than him.

But gambling addiction is not okay for all people. They will ruin their life without mercy and their family can also get the effect. So we must think twice before we want to playing gambling and make sure we can control ourselves.

[AbuBhakar]

To be honest, all addictions or addictions that push our lives to destroy us must avoid us if our lives will be beautiful. And betting gambling addiction it has become a fashion now. What people want can’t leave even if they want. I think gambling addiction is okay if you can put it in control. And if you become more come to it, it will destroy your life. So I’ll say you’ll avoid any kind of addiction that will destroy your life.

what do you mean gambling addiction is okay as long as you can control it? is there an addict that can control themselves when the very reason they became an addict in the first place is because they could not control themselves and indulged too much to what they should not be doing

It made me laugh for a moment about how could an addict could be in control. Addiction basically means you're out of control. You're not aware about the things you do already ruins your life as well as people around you.

I can't think of any addicition other than greed for money that will cause people fall into gambling addiction. They seek other source of income and they see gambling as a way to do it. It is very accessible to gamble nowadays and you just simply need a money to be able to play.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

I think mostly from trying to recover the losses. Greed will always be there, but it's the satisfaction of a person that must be considered. There are people who can live with a little win, and they won't go back afterwards. But those who lost way too much will always have the urge to come back and get their revenge, which fuels their gambling time, and it could lead to addiction.

Yes, but it's mostly gamblers or bettors that are playing for fun that can only handle gambling in such manners, for those people that are gambling for the sake of making profits alone, a lot of them can not live with a little win, there is usually the urge to keep going and hoping to win a large amount before they can stop and sometimes even when they have win a huge amount, they will still not be satisfied because of greed. Although, it's common among some persons not minding if the person is gambling for fun or only profit.

[Cryptmuster]

[quote author=WeedGoW
You think gambling addiction is okay, and I think differently about that. Any form of addiction that anyone has is a bad one and should be stopped.

I don't consider any form of addiction as a good addiction. As long as you, as the person, are doing something more than the way it should be done, then that's already destroying you gradually, and when someone who is gambling can still control their gambling habit, the person is not addicted to gambling yet.

I am surprised by people who have rituals when they place bets. Actually, rituals are normal for people who believe they help them, but I am surprised by those who have a ritual of pouring themselves a glass of whiskey when they make a bet. I do not know if I drank every time I placed a bet, I would probably be an alcoholic by now. It also affects our ability to make the right decisions because when you are under the influence of alcohol you will definitely make a mistake. That is why I absolutely do not accept this. Another addiction combined with gambling or even just a bad habit on its own is not a good thing.

[Z_MBFM]

Gambling is an emotional game. From here, fun, depression, financial loss, emotional expression are all possible. When someone drinks alcohol or becomes emotional for any reason, the tendency to gamble may increase in him if he is already an addicted gambler. Gambling activity is more common in a gambler when he is highly emotional.

Gambling is based on luck when you become very emotional for some reason then you go there to test your luck. The reason for this is that you become emotional when you lose something despite having expectations. And so it is natural for the desire to gamble to arise in you at that time. So yes some things can work like a chain.

[sompitonov]

[quote author=WeedGoW
You think gambling addiction is okay, and I think differently about that. Any form of addiction that anyone has is a bad one and should be stopped.

I don't consider any form of addiction as a good addiction. As long as you, as the person, are doing something more than the way it should be done, then that's already destroying you gradually, and when someone who is gambling can still control their gambling habit, the person is not addicted to gambling yet.

I am surprised by people who have rituals when they place bets. Actually, rituals are normal for people who believe they help them, but I am surprised by those who have a ritual of pouring themselves a glass of whiskey when they make a bet. I do not know if I drank every time I placed a bet, I would probably be an alcoholic by now. It also affects our ability to make the right decisions because when you are under the influence of alcohol you will definitely make a mistake. That is why I absolutely do not accept this. Another addiction combined with gambling or even just a bad habit on its own is not a good thing.

Alcoholic drinks affect us so strongly that under their influence we can commit various actions that we will regret the next day and perhaps for the rest of our lives. This is much more dangerous than many people think, this should not be underestimated. When we are young, we can be frivolous about alcohol, gambling, but at an older age I do not allow myself too much and will never sit down to play with alcoholic drinks. I feel sorry for those who have lost huge amounts of money due to bad habits. It is better to think twice before someone who wants to relax in this way.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

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.

Well, you are making sense but let me say that for an addiction to another thing to fuel addiction to gambling, I think it has alot to do with who the person is following, or keep as friends, and that or those friends have to be gamblers, this is the only way being addicted to alcohol (for example) can lead to being addicted to gambling as well because the friend you keep are likely also addicted to both.

Just like the saying that goes "show me your friends and I tell you who you are", some one who is addicted to alcohol may likely wake up one morning and decide to gamble, but trust, he wouldn't take gambling as serious as his alcohol, except there are alcoholic friends who are serious gamblers, this is where his addiction to gambling as well is going to come from.

[o48o]

Well, you are making sense but let me say that for an addiction to another thing to fuel addiction to gambling, I think it has alot to do with who the person is following, or keep as friends, and that or those friends have to be gamblers, this is the only way being addicted to alcohol (for example) can lead to being addicted to gambling as well because the friend you keep are likely also addicted to both.

Just like the saying that goes "show me your friends and I tell you who you are", some one who is addicted to alcohol may likely wake up one morning and decide to gamble, but trust, he wouldn't take gambling as serious as his alcohol, except there are alcoholic friends who are serious gamblers, this is where his addiction to gambling as well is going to come from.

While addicts often change company when they get rid of addiction, that addiction doesn't come from the friend circle. Addicts just choose addict friends because they are easier to get along with. They don't need to hide themselves from them. Addict friend circle also gives them patterns on their daily routines, and when someone gets something else to do they naturally distance themselves from the friendship as well.

Obviously some people, who blame others for their choices, blame the friend circle for that addiction. And they might even believe it because they aren't addicts when they aren't around them anymore. They could keep being addicts by themselves as well, and in many cases they will. It's just more fun to do with friends.

There are neurodivergent types, that copy their identities from other people, but even those don't copy the direct addiction. It's just a behavioral mirroring and in those cases company definitely defines what they do, but it's not as common, but i thought i should mention that there are exceptions where company defines how you behave.

[xenomorfo]

It made me laugh for a moment about how could an addict could be in control. Addiction basically means you're out of control. You're not aware about the things you do already ruins your life as well as people around you.

I can't think of any addicition other than greed for money that will cause people fall into gambling addiction. They seek other source of income and they see gambling as a way to do it. It is very accessible to gamble nowadays and you just simply need a money to be able to play.

Exactly, any psychologist would tell you the same thing. If you are in an addiction phase then you are out of control.
The hard part and the one to start is to understand that you have a problem. It is not easy to admit, always according to what psychologists say.
After this everything becomes easier

[|MINER|]

I think about that too, and I think it should be like this, when a player wins, what he does is win the money of the other players who have lost in the casino, it is something like how an exchange works, they only win the money of others, but not the money of the exchange , that is something that both casinos and exchanges maintain themselves because their money is difficult to touch, they only work with the money of others, in this case the losing players/traders.

You catch the point.
Even they have investment to start their business a lot but after a while they gain money from the players who lost on their wagering and then they give it to those player who won the wager or the bet, And about the spending money they were continuously investing on the marketing and promotion.

Actually, these things go in a circle and at the end of the day, the casinos are the ones who are profitable. There is a lot of talk about bankroll, but I don't think the casinos have anything to do with it. Yes, it is much the same with centralized exchanges because there traders trade against traders and the traders bear the brunt of the losses. And centralized exchanger platforms are earning profits from the middle in the form of trading fees.

[Leahized]

It made me laugh for a moment about how could an addict could be in control. Addiction basically means you're out of control. You're not aware about the things you do already ruins your life as well as people around you.

I can't think of any addicition other than greed for money that will cause people fall into gambling addiction. They seek other source of income and they see gambling as a way to do it. It is very accessible to gamble nowadays and you just simply need a money to be able to play.

Exactly, any psychologist would tell you the same thing. If you are in an addiction phase then you are out of control.
The hard part and the one to start is to understand that you have a problem. It is not easy to admit, always according to what psychologists say.
After this everything becomes easier

Whether it is addictive or addicted to anything else, it delivers all the bad addicts to the destruction. The definition of addiction can be given in many ways. For example, if a person continues to do things that he wants to come out, but when trying to get out, he will repeatedly fails. However, those who have become addicted to gambling will face family problems and economic problems and those who are addicted to drinking smoke are addicted to big addiction. They will be physically and mentally damaged that is not possible to recover.

What does psychology say about this?  In my opinion, it is very difficult to return from these addictions and have to fight against yourself. However, it is possible to get out of these addicts. Those who have become addicted to big addiction can leave Rehab. This will change a lot and after a long time, they will be able to return from these addicts. And those who are addicted to gambling have been very economically damaged, even though it is possible to come back to the family and think of their children. If his morale is well, and is aware of this.

[Fortify]

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.

You mention all the "bad" addictions but any addiction at all, like football card collecting, could give an indication that someone has those tendencies. Maybe those people with less bad hobbies are filling that need to collect or getting thrills in a different way (like opening a pack of football stickers and finding a rare one). I'd say things like smoking/drugs/alcohol are less about the addiction element and more about the stimulant side. There's a reason that casinos in places like Vegas are/were keen to give away free alcohol to customers, because it reduces their inhibition and makes them more likely to spend a lot more money on gambling for a relatively small cost. Getting buzzed off illicit substances can make it harder to correctly judge odds and think with a clear head.

[Outhue]

OP you have made points actually, even in some clubs they play gamble there which means by frequently going the club every time, such a gambler may become addicted to gambling even though it mostly involves physical gambling so quitting some social bad habits like the ones you made mention of alcoholic intake, smoking and all the rest can fuel addiction in gambling because some persons say they get inspiration to gamble when they are smoking tobacco or drinking alcohol which then means that if they could stay away from those addiction they can possibly reduce or quit gambling too because there will be nothing to give them the vibes anymore.

Some people can get into gambling and might become addicted eventually as a result of habit or activity that they are addicted to, it could be drinking, smoking or where they socialize that they are addicted to. It is either that they are looking for an escape from their addiction and enter into gambling or they get into it because everybody in the environment gambles excessively. But I think that majority of people that becomes addicted in gambling is as a result greed to recover loses and make quick money, not necessarily that they became addicted as a result of another addiction.

I think mostly from trying to recover the losses. Greed will always be there, but it's the satisfaction of a person that must be considered. There are people who can live with a little win, and they won't go back afterwards. But those who lost way too much will always have the urge to come back and get their revenge, which fuels their gambling time, and it could lead to addiction.

You are right, some use gambling as an escape for their other addiction, but sometimes it gets worse, too. Let's say a person is an alcoholic, and there are alcoholic drinks available in a physical casino. Those who are drug addicts can think of using gambling to make money to buy more drugs, so it will all still depend on the person.

I don't accept, using gambling to escape any other addiction makes no sense to me, it won't fix anything because you are still going to think straight, people use alcohol and drugs to escape reality, this is escape for them.

Gambling won't affect your mind and thoughts, you are in the same shit again and you still have your straight mind, but compare to someone who have drank six bottles of alcohol drinks, the escape will work for many hours or for a whole day until it clears off.

So tell me, how can gambling really works for escaping reality? It doesn't fit right, you need cociane and alcohol to get intoxicated, a very bad way to avoid thinking about responsibilities and bad days or failure in your life, but what happens after? You will find yourself right where you started.

[lienfaye]

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 think so. If a person is willing to change for the better, there's no need to choose what should be the first in line to influence himself to get over to his other addiction. Because if you're determine to overcome it, starting slowly can help compared to a sudden change. A cut to the usual capital and sticking to it is a good start to change. It's just depend on the willingness of the gambler since we're the first to help ourselves by changing our mindset towards gambling.

[Finestream]

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 think so. If a person is willing to change for the better, there's no need to choose what should be the first in line to influence himself to get over to his other addiction. Because if you're determine to overcome it, starting slowly can help compared to a sudden change. A cut to the usual capital and sticking to it is a good start to change. It's just depend on the willingness of the gambler since we're the first to help ourselves by changing our mindset towards gambling.

That even makes the situation worse because it was the right solution. Instead, focus on stopping ourselves from getting involved in something that ruins our lives. We'd rather choose a life where we are free from any addiction.

Getting involved in sports and healthy activities is even better than anything else. It is something we need to think about: any addiction is bad. There is a limitation in everything around us, and we have to stick to it. Or else, we will never find a solution to our gambling addiction.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

If another addiction fuels that of gambling, then one is going to be a complete irresponsible gambler, it's something bad to see that people are being addicted to gambling, not to now have it that there are other aspects of life in which this same addiction has been battling with others, as we are being unexpected to check ourselves on how we gambles and the things we do which may cause us to deviate from having fun to other things, which are of no benefits to us as a responsible gambler.

[Hatchy]

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.

The fact is most times it's difficult for them to recognise that they are addicted to such things. From their own perspective it's just the normal way or their lifestyle. Fact is a drop of water forms a mighty ocean and at such, someone who is already addicted to things like smoking, drinking, and a rough lifestyle, isn't just starting his addiction but gambling addiction might just be more fuel to his fire. For them to quech this,they might have to give up all other reckless lifestyle and start from the scratch, which we know very well might be difficult for them.

[nara1892]

Although everything is still in the form of addiction, I think gambling addiction is not always caused by other addictions such as cigarettes or drugs suffered by someone, in my opinion the only thing that triggers gambling addiction is when it is related to money, meaning like when someone is experiencing financial problems then he manages to get a win at the beginning of his involvement in gambling which experience creates a sensation and an extraordinary increase in dopamine levels which will slowly continue to encourage him to gamble.

So it can also be said that eliminating interest in gambling does not mean you have to stop the addiction you experience from other things, the only way that I think makes sense to reduce our interest in gambling is to understand as a whole about what and how gambling really is.

[Chilwell]

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.

Your observation is very clear and acceptable. But base on my experience and observation, I declare that is someone's gambling habit that contribute to gambling addiction. When someone is addicted to gambling, I can assure you that is not all gambling addict that are womaniser, or drug addict. But some some gambling addict are womaniser, they will gamble to the best of their interest and when they win, they will end up lavishing the money on some women forgetting their family. Instead of them to use the money to do something profitable that will be beneficial to them and their families. But in a situation where they loss, they will take their cry to the family, and demanded another money, this will continue gradually until they find themselves in a big mess up or rough situation. And the family will also suffer the consequences.

And for drug addict, when someone is really addicted to hard drugs. It will be very hard/ difficult for him to know himself, take less of having the mentality to gamble, Because their sense of thinking is going to be affected. And the drugs will also kill some parts of their body organs or systems. When someone is addicted to something, it will be very difficult for himself to quit that particular thing. The only advice I have is that, if you don't want to be addicted to something, is better you don't involved yourself in that thing frequently. Because prevention is better and cheaper than cure.