How can we avoid addictions in gambling?

[laijsica]

- how can we avoid or control our gambling activities so that's it wouldn't lead to addictions ?

The first step to staying disciplined in gambling should be to play for fun. Second, allocate a certain amount of funds for gambling based on your ability. Third, keep your emotions under control and do not get excited in any situation whether you win or lose.

If you can follow these recommendations, it is possible to reduce the risk of gambling addiction to a large extent. Most gamblers come to gambling platforms with the aim of making more money in a short time, as a result of which those gamblers lose control over themselves and become addicted.

-how often should we gamble?

You should always allocate money for gambling based on your financial ability because most of the time you can lose in the game. If you allocate money within your ability, you will be less likely to lose an excessive amount of money. How often it is good to gamble should depend on the amount of money you allocate.

[danherbias07]

To understand gambling addiction, by examining the behavior of an addicted gambler, one can easily understand the difference between an addicted gambler and a non-addicted gambler. An addicted gambler cannot get a good idea about his addiction. But those who are not addicted can easily understand the difference between an addicted and a non-addicted gambler. Above all, I would say that if a gambler can control himself in any situation, then he can protect himself from addiction.

Identifying oneself.

I think this is important for a gambler. He must know where he is at when it comes to gambling, and he must know if he is too hooked with the game and cannot even live a day without playing. I think that's near addiction, or worse, it is already a gambling addiction.

Histories and records of how we play and how much money and time we spend must be reviewed. If we are wasting too much time just gambling for a day, I do believe we should calibrate our time management because it won't be healthy anymore.

[junder]

In fact, the main thing here is self-control. The one who cannot control himself basically becomes addicted. If he could control himself, he would never have become addicted to gambling. If someone thinks that he is becoming addicted, then at the beginning he should pay attention to what needs to be done to remove himself from now on. For this, he can follow some steps if he wants, he can take a break from gambling for a few days. He can keep himself busy with other recreational activities instead of thinking about winning or losing. By paying attention to some things in this way, it is possible to be saved from gambling addiction.

I agree, whatever the goal, if the goal is to avoid gambling addiction, then it's a matter of good self-control. With good self-control, players will naturally be able to prevent themselves from engaging in addictive behavior, such as prolonging a gambling session after a losing streak.

In my opinion, the process of becoming addicted to gambling just happens. It's rare for people to realize they're addicted and take the initiative to prevent it. Most often, they don't realize it at first, and that realization only comes after they've already suffered significant losses.

[Fredomago]

To understand gambling addiction, by examining the behavior of an addicted gambler, one can easily understand the difference between an addicted gambler and a non-addicted gambler. An addicted gambler cannot get a good idea about his addiction. But those who are not addicted can easily understand the difference between an addicted and a non-addicted gambler. Above all, I would say that if a gambler can control himself in any situation, then he can protect himself from addiction.

I think it's really simple. If a person can simply stop gambling, and never think about it again, they're not addicted.

If the person stops but then it's all the time thinking about gambling, then there's an addiction right there.

It's all in the mind really.

Addiction is something inside the mind where you can't balance your emotions and you are keep pushing yourself doing things, and like what you said, if you stop then contiue thinking about it, chances that addiction already developed and if you are being dominated and you push yourself playing back, then that's increase the adrenaline and it will lead you to a deeper addiction, best to stop then quit yourself away and think of other alternative activities to prevent  you to think about gambling.

[LOVER BOY 422]

Gambling has been in an existence long time ago and it has always been fun all the way. Many people got involved in gambling just to have fun while some other people see it as there own way of expressing passion for games, sporting bet etc. however gambling that was initially made for fun and excitement later became a major problem to humanity due to addiction that has lead to the down fall of many young people that got involved in gambling.

These has kept me worried and restless so I decided to ask this questions :

- how can we avoid or control our gambling activities so that's it wouldn't lead to addictions ?

-how often should we gamble?

Not really to avoid it ,once you have become a gambler you are ,but the most important thing is that gambling has way to redeem you,in this world today am proud to know how to gamble, because it gives me ideas to follow many things on my part,so to avoid it totally I can't but I can't still get addicted to it and gambling can't control me,but I will control it at all cost

[Sarah Azhari]

- how can we avoid or control our gambling activities so that's it wouldn't lead to addictions ?

In my opinion, by not spending all of our daily income or setting aside just 1% of it, we can avoid gambling addiction. Most importantly, we must instill in our minds never to view gambling as a means of earning income, but rather as entertainment. This way, it won't lead to gambling addiction, and we should never force ourselves after losing several times, as forcing ourselves to gamble will make it difficult to control our emotions.

[topbitcoin]

In gambling, there are restrictions on oneself in terms of time, the amount of money set and other restrictions related to gambling that must be emphasized because if we only see gambling from the aspect of fun without thinking about all the possibilities that occur especially for the worst possibilities, we can get carried away with the flow that actually makes us destroyed even when we don't realize it.

Some gambling platforms have features that allow users to set time limits or loss limits. However, such restrictions are usually disabled by default, i.e., it's assumed that gamblers are sufficiently disciplined and will enable these features themselves in the settings if necessary. However, in my opinion, this is unlikely in the case of highly addicted gamblers.

I think that even if the feature is eventually disabled as a default or even removed, it won't be a problem because this kind of limitation must be owned by the gambler himself.
When the limits are imposed by the system when we don't want to then it can be circumvented but it will be different when such limits come from ourselves trying to discipline ourselves with the limits imposed in gambling then it will be much more beneficial.

Restrictions like this are important and it is great if there are still some casinos that still have this feature but on the one hand this must also come from ourselves because this is the initial foundation and the presence of features with restrictions is only as an amplifier for us in increasing our limits in gambling.

[swogerino]

- how can we avoid or control our gambling activities so that's it wouldn't lead to addictions ?

In my opinion, by not spending all of our daily income or setting aside just 1% of it, we can avoid gambling addiction. Most importantly, we must instill in our minds never to view gambling as a means of earning income, but rather as entertainment. This way, it won't lead to gambling addiction, and we should never force ourselves after losing several times, as forcing ourselves to gamble will make it difficult to control our emotions.

That is a very wise advice here but the problem is that most of the time almost all of the gamblers do not think that carefully before rushing in to play. The dopamine plays this role that makes them forgot to think about consequences before deciding anything including their gambling activities. I am living proof that I have been able to contain addiction yet sometimes the huge desire to gamble inside me brings me back to gambling without really thinking about consequence although lately I have been doing better than I used to do before, so adding thoughts to your mind before putting actions in place is a really good way to contain addiction at least, if not quit gambling completely.

[goldkingcoiner]

To understand gambling addiction, by examining the behavior of an addicted gambler, one can easily understand the difference between an addicted gambler and a non-addicted gambler. An addicted gambler cannot get a good idea about his addiction. But those who are not addicted can easily understand the difference between an addicted and a non-addicted gambler. Above all, I would say that if a gambler can control himself in any situation, then he can protect himself from addiction.

Identifying oneself.

I think this is important for a gambler. He must know where he is at when it comes to gambling, and he must know if he is too hooked with the game and cannot even live a day without playing. I think that's near addiction, or worse, it is already a gambling addiction.

Histories and records of how we play and how much money and time we spend must be reviewed. If we are wasting too much time just gambling for a day, I do believe we should calibrate our time management because it won't be healthy anymore.

I think that is easier said than done.

We are all human and being human this comes with certain downsides such as addiction-forming habits. Nobody can really say they know themselves other than those who went through an addiction. The best thing to do is preventative. If you hold yourself to limits such playing and funding limits, at the very least you can keep you safe from yourself.

[Derekfunds]

To understand gambling addiction, by examining the behavior of an addicted gambler, one can easily understand the difference between an addicted gambler and a non-addicted gambler. An addicted gambler cannot get a good idea about his addiction. But those who are not addicted can easily understand the difference between an addicted and a non-addicted gambler. Above all, I would say that if a gambler can control himself in any situation, then he can protect himself from addiction.

I think it's really simple. If a person can simply stop gambling, and never think about it again, they're not addicted.

If the person stops but then it's all the time thinking about gambling, then there's an addiction right there.

It's all in the mind really.

Addiction is something inside the mind where you can't balance your emotions and you are keep pushing yourself doing things, and like what you said, if you stop then contiue thinking about it, chances that addiction already developed and if you are being dominated and you push yourself playing back, then that's increase the adrenaline and it will lead you to a deeper addiction, best to stop then quit yourself away and think of other alternative activities to prevent  you to think about gambling.

You are absolutely correct and also addiction is not inborn or inbuilt but rather it is been develop by human, addiction is a behavior, a character that is very bad especially to things that will consume or destroy us. There is a saying that " Too much of something or anything is bad' and that is literally addiction because when you are addicted to something you tends to do those things often, frequently, regularly etc without control anymore and it can lead to destruction and disaster if it is not been stopped or controlled and stopping it is always difficult especially when someone has gone far in it.

[eisen33]

- how can we avoid or control our gambling activities so that's it wouldn't lead to addictions ?

In my opinion, by not spending all of our daily income or setting aside just 1% of it, we can avoid gambling addiction. Most importantly, we must instill in our minds never to view gambling as a means of earning income, but rather as entertainment. This way, it won't lead to gambling addiction, and we should never force ourselves after losing several times, as forcing ourselves to gamble will make it difficult to control our emotions.

That is a very wise advice here but the problem is that most of the time almost all of the gamblers do not think that carefully before rushing in to play. The dopamine plays this role that makes them forgot to think about consequences before deciding anything including their gambling activities. I am living proof that I have been able to contain addiction yet sometimes the huge desire to gamble inside me brings me back to gambling without really thinking about consequence although lately I have been doing better than I used to do before, so adding thoughts to your mind before putting actions in place is a really good way to contain addiction at least, if not quit gambling completely.

I'm against extremes, my opinion is that if we want something, we should allow ourselves to do it, but it should always be backed by responsibility. If I want to have a drink with friends sometimes, I'll have one, but I won't get drunk. The same goes for gambling, if I want to place a bet, I'll do it, but I won't let myself lose my entire deposit in one day. I don't like extremes because they can push us to intensify our desires, and the more restrictions we impose, the higher the risk of relapse. This is my point of view it works for me, but it might not work for others.

[Prosofina_G]

Gambling is fun and so interesting to participate, but you must be perfectly in your right state of mind before going into gambling,
Addiction in gambling, first you are the one who brings your self to gambling addiction because of greed.
To enable you not to be addicted you have to be greedless.
And maintain self control, treat gambling as entertainment, avoid gambling when you are angry, replaced your gambling habits with other meaningful activities.
My opinion.

[leonair]

Gambling has been in an existence long time ago and it has always been fun all the way. Many people got involved in gambling just to have fun while some other people see it as there own way of expressing passion for games, sporting bet etc. however gambling that was initially made for fun and excitement later became a major problem to humanity due to addiction that has lead to the down fall of many young people that got involved in gambling.

As time goes by, the number of people spending time online is increasing. There are still others alive who were born at a time when technology was not advanced and they are not familiar with the internet. That generation is gradually dying out, so internet exploration is increasing more and more, and the gambling marketing that runs on the internet attracts the younger generation a lot because it shows how someone is changing their life by winning a lot. And after seeing them, everyone now thinks of gambling as a place to change their fate, not fun. And from this trap, the younger generation will not be able to control themselves in any way. So as time goes by, the number of addicts will not decrease, but rather the number of addicts will increase.