How can we avoid addictions in gambling?

[Orpichukwu]

Until a gambler admits that he's addicted before he cannot make the necessary steps to curb his addiction, we don't have to force people as against their wish, because not every addicted gambler is seeing himself as an addict, and once this fact was not established, there could not be a way of suggesting for a remedy on that, while maintaining discipline.line in gambling could prevent us from being addicted.

The first step and way of helping a gambling addict is to first of all make sure that you make them understand that they are addicted; it's not something you force on them. And when they know, then the possible remedies can start coming in as suggestions, either self-help or you use a third party, which includes a therapist, if the addiction has gotten to that level.

[laspol65]

Until a gambler admits that he's addicted before he cannot make the necessary steps to curb his addiction, we don't have to force people as against their wish, because not every addicted gambler is seeing himself as an addict, and once this fact was not established, there could not be a way of suggesting for a remedy on that, while maintaining discipline.line in gambling could prevent us from being addicted.

The first step and way of helping a gambling addict is to first of all make sure that you make them understand that they are addicted; it's not something you force on them. And when they know, then the possible remedies can start coming in as suggestions, either self-help or you use a third party, which includes a therapist, if the addiction has gotten to that level.

Of course, you have to explain to him that you are addicted to gambling, you have to identify it and then you have to gradually reveal the signs of getting away from gambling addiction. But the pressure has to be revealed gradually so that the gambler does not get bored with this remedy, because if the gambler gets bored then these help remedies will not be able to help him in any way. The gambler must be gradually removed from gambling by the advice, this advice will change his life.

[Betwrong]

Psychology is such a strong thing in humans that if you are not careful then you are going to end up with a lot more, and this is why you have to be always careful with what you are doing, otherwise it will not help you out at all.

Addiction happens because of your own psychological situation, you cover some need with gambling, well addiction is that and gambling or drugs or drinking or smoking doesn't matter, whatever you are addicted to, is for a reason and that reason is mostly because you want to cover a hole in your soul. If you can figure out what that is and plug it in then you will no longer be addicted, but even therapists will not be able to help you unless you are willing to walk the mile, otherwise it won't work.

Great words! I would definitely put them among the best I've read in this thread and maybe even among everything I read about gambling addiction and any addiction overall.  Indeed, we need to fill that hole with something. It's natural for us, human beings, filling an emotional void or emptiness with things like love, friendship or creativity. But love, friendship or creativity require some efforts, require some energy from you, and if you are lazy you fill that void with alcohol, drugs or gambling.

[VashaUdacha777]

You can play gambling games every day if you want . The main thing is not to play for real money.

I have a friend who plays online casino games every day, but only on a demo account. He’s not trying to win money — he just enjoys clicking the buttons and collecting combinations.

Addiction usually starts after winning real money in a casino. It feels like you can repeat the win, and that’s when you start getting hooked on the game.

A lot also depends on education — smart, well-educated people who finished university tend to become addicted to gambling less often.

[junder]

There are ways to mitigate addiction though

You can try to keep a healthier lifestyle and not end up addicted.

It is not always easy through

To reduce addiction, the first step is to have a strong intention and determination. Don't be easily swayed by hearing about gambling, such as a friend's winnings, and the news reaches you. There are actually more than one way to reduce addiction; it all depends on you.

The key to avoiding addiction is to avoid thinking that gambling is a quick way to make money.

[Gost ms]

You can play gambling games every day if you want . The main thing is not to play for real money.

I have a friend who plays online casino games every day, but only on a demo account. He’s not trying to win money — he just enjoys clicking the buttons and collecting combinations.

Addiction usually starts after winning real money in a casino. It feels like you can repeat the win, and that’s when you start getting hooked on the game.

A lot also depends on education — smart, well-educated people who finished university tend to become addicted to gambling less often.

A person who wants to overcome gambling addiction should never do all these things. It is necessary to keep himself away from all casinos. When a person keeps himself away from all these places, he will be able to get out of that place's addiction.

A person should play enough sports to get out of his addiction. When a person is addicted to sports, he will not have all these attention, then he will be able to overcome the addiction very easily. So I think you should never do all these things, always keep yourself in sports, then it will be good for you

[cande86]

To reduce addiction, the first step is to have a strong intention and determination. Don't be easily swayed by hearing about gambling, such as a friend's winnings, and the news reaches you. There are actually more than one way to reduce addiction; it all depends on you.

The key to avoiding addiction is to avoid thinking that gambling is a quick way to make money.

Exactly, the important thing is to play and not do it compulsively, i think that this thing is the basis for not having pathological addictions to gambling, now you have to be strong and not start falling into these things since childhood is fundamental

[Yorubek]

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?

While gambling, we need to remember that we are gambling for entertainment, not to make money or even to get rich quick. Before starting gambling, we need to determine our time and money, and gamble with the money we can afford to lose. This will help us control our greed or emotions, so that we can manage our gambling within our means by following the right rules, and it is very important to take time after winning or losing. We need to set aside all the money we need in advance, which will reduce the risk of losing too much money and maintain self-control over ourselves. When we gamble for entertainment, we can enjoy the true fun of gambling and it will not turn into an addiction.

[liasbaa]

There are ways to mitigate addiction though

You can try to keep a healthier lifestyle and not end up addicted.

It is not always easy through

To reduce addiction, the first step is to have a strong intention and determination. Don't be easily swayed by hearing about gambling, such as a friend's winnings, and the news reaches you. There are actually more than one way to reduce addiction; it all depends on you.

The key to avoiding addiction is to avoid thinking that gambling is a quick way to make money.

The instructions you have given are the main way to reduce gambling addiction. Abandoning the mentality of making money from gambling is the most appropriate way to prevent addiction. Although there are many ways to reduce addiction you have mentioned only one. I think that as you said to reduce addiction, do not keep gambling as a source of income. Along with this, you should limit the money allocated for gambling within a certain limit so that it does not exceed it. You should be in control of getting excited in response to losing in gambling.

[Agbamoni]

Gambling is not a hustle,job or investment and when you start depending on it for survival, addiction forms.Gambling addiction doesn’t start with big losses,it starts with small wins that create false confidence.Addiction can sometimes feel out of control but the truth is you have to be honest with yourself with certain helpful measures like replacing old habits,avoid spaces that constantly expose you to betting constantly.Consciously take responsibility to resist these.

OP is trying to avoid addictions by all means, that's why he asked the questions. If he meant it to be a kind of work that one can depend on for money, he wouldn't mind. I think he will be better off himself, not minding about addictions. Also, addiction is a gradual process; it must not be the reason why you are gambling that leads to addiction. Most times, it is how often you gamble, when you start chasing losses, and wins can also lead you into addiction.

[xenomorfo]

You can play gambling games every day if you want . The main thing is not to play for real money.

I have a friend who plays online casino games every day, but only on a demo account. He?s not trying to win money ? he just enjoys clicking the buttons and collecting combinations.

Addiction usually starts after winning real money in a casino. It feels like you can repeat the win, and that?s when you start getting hooked on the game.

A lot also depends on education ? smart, well-educated people who finished university tend to become addicted to gambling less often.

you can play as long as you don't waste money or time
If your only thought in your day is gambling, my boy, then there's trouble there.
It depends, whether you do it to kill time or you do it because you can't do without it, that's the important thing to understand.

[centrum]

Until a gambler admits that he's addicted before he cannot make the necessary steps to curb his addiction, we don't have to force people as against their wish, because not every addicted gambler is seeing himself as an addict, and once this fact was not established, there could not be a way of suggesting for a remedy on that, while maintaining discipline.line in gambling could prevent us from being addicted.

The first step and way of helping a gambling addict is to first of all make sure that you make them understand that they are addicted; it's not something you force on them. And when they know, then the possible remedies can start coming in as suggestions, either self-help or you use a third party, which includes a therapist, if the addiction has gotten to that level.

that is a good point. however even when a person is addicted they often refuse to accept or realize that they are addicted. gambling addiction is an extremely dangerous form of addiction and once someone becomes trapped in it getting out can be very difficult. for example my friends brother started gambling at a very young age during his school life. last year he lost a well funded gambling account. some time later he took out a bank loan of 100k dollars and spent all of it on gambling. in the end he lost every single dollar fell into deep depression and eventually chose the path of suicide. that is why i believe that if someone cannot step away from gambling at the right time the consequences can be devastating.

[Mallampue]

You can play gambling games every day if you want . The main thing is not to play for real money.

I have a friend who plays online casino games every day, but only on a demo account. He’s not trying to win money — he just enjoys clicking the buttons and collecting combinations.

Addiction usually starts after winning real money in a casino. It feels like you can repeat the win, and that’s when you start getting hooked on the game.

A lot also depends on education — smart, well-educated people who finished university tend to become addicted to gambling less often.

You are not gambling but playing, so understand the mechanism of what is called gambling, you should distinguish between these two things, and again people who just play playing casino games can also be addicted even though they don't risk money in it.
I don't know where you got the data about the educated are more likely not to be addicted, let's reflect on it you are not logical to compare if you look at gamblers from their educational background because I think not a few educated people also experience addiction.
More simply you should have data on how many people have education in your area and how many do not have education, then you compare the percentage of gambling addiction in people who have education and people who do not have education in percentage form, whether there is a big difference or not, that will conclude your speculation is right or wrong, because I am quite sure that people who do not have higher education are much larger in population than people who have education.

[DYOR+BTC]

Addiction is the strongest challenge associated with gambling which requires serious attention to avoid regretting on the process and the easiest way to do away  with addiction, and to do this, some precautions needs to be taken. To avoid addiction in gambling, some things must be avoided and those precautions are: eliminating greed while gambling because greed is the greatest enemy of all gamblers as it gives room for constant lost while gambling, secondly avoid staking much with little capital because once the capital is high there won't be room for the accumulation of more odd.

[danherbias07]

Gambling is not a hustle,job or investment and when you start depending on it for survival, addiction forms.Gambling addiction doesn’t start with big losses,it starts with small wins that create false confidence.Addiction can sometimes feel out of control but the truth is you have to be honest with yourself with certain helpful measures like replacing old habits,avoid spaces that constantly expose you to betting constantly.Consciously take responsibility to resist these.

OP is trying to avoid addictions by all means, that's why he asked the questions. If he meant it to be a kind of work that one can depend on for money, he wouldn't mind. I think he will be better off himself, not minding about addictions. Also, addiction is a gradual process; it must not be the reason why you are gambling that leads to addiction. Most times, it is how often you gamble, when you start chasing losses, and wins can also lead you into addiction.

In my case, it's the vengeful emotion that makes a gambler try harder.

A gradual process, you say? Well, that is actually true. A gambler who has been losing consecutive times will have an idea to keep on gambling because either he wants his money back or he is trying to win while trying to receive the money that was lost.
So, if you are a gambler with an attitude of being vengeful, you might as well avoid gambling because it will just lead to financial losses that you might never recover.

[Finebone]

. To avoid addiction in gambling, some things must be avoided and those precautions are: eliminating greed while gambling because greed is the greatest enemy of all gamblers as it gives room for constant lost while gambling, secondly avoid staking much with little capital because once the capital is high there won't be room for the accumulation of more odd.

Greed is a normal thing in human that I don't think is the actual cause of addition, because in other to win big, you need to be greedy, you being greedy doesn't make you addicted, what I thinks that makes an individual addicted in gambling faster is when he takes it as a source of income, because that will make him to gamble too frequent which is the real cause of addition.

Furthermore, a gambler can get addicted even though he takes it for fun when he gambles too much, so to avoid addiction, try not to gamble all the time, because that is the fastest way to addiction.

[Versatile_choice]

Also, addiction is a gradual process; it must not be the reason why you are gambling that leads to addiction. Most times, it is how often you gamble, when you start chasing losses, and wins can also lead you into addiction.

You're right about this, addiction is not just something we can stop all of a sudden or with a twinkle of an eye it is something that takes a lot of time sometimes years before you can shake it off your head. And it is better we realize it on time and look for a way to make amend instead of realizing it at late hour. And surely chasing losses is one of the things that contribute to addition and as well wining. most people feel excited to a point where they may not know what they're doing, and sometimes they will be tempted to keep trying more lucks since they are in a wining streak and in the process of doing that they might get stuck up.

[Africolo]

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?

Several questions have arised on how to avoid addiction in gambling and  the only option is discipline and having a budget that keeps one in check on how he spends on gambling , so many people has gone bankrupt because they couldn't control themselves on how they bet and to control their emotions towards gambling.

People always say they gamble for fun but I don't see gambling as fun because it leaves one in regrets, trauma, depressed and pained when you loose so there's no fun and excitement in loosing. Most people go into gambling because they want to win and depend on it for survival, I always advise people around me that wants to venture into gambling to have a budget for themselves so you don't go bankrupt in course of gambling. On how often one can gamble, one can gamble anytime but just don't be carried away that you use every little money you have to gamble, be time cautious and discipline.

[danadc]

I would say to bet small amounts of money and play for short periods of time, not to make it too long because that way emotions build up and then it's difficult to control them. It's also wise to play with a limited amount of money, and to keep some of it where we don't have access to it so we don't spend it sometimes our impulses play tricks on us.

[Tigerheart3026]

You can play gambling games every day if you want . The main thing is not to play for real money.

I have a friend who plays online casino games every day, but only on a demo account. He’s not trying to win money — he just enjoys clicking the buttons and collecting combinations.

Addiction usually starts after winning real money in a casino. It feels like you can repeat the win, and that’s when you start getting hooked on the game.

A lot also depends on education — smart, well-educated people who finished university tend to become addicted to gambling less often.

all of the gambler not playing gamble to make real money, it’s just entertainment,
but play gambling in the demo account, it’s not give the feeling of real gambling,
because gamble is full of excitement, though money is involved in real gambling,
but gambling will not be addict, if you play it with limit and don’t play everyday,