Have you ever felt quitting gambling, but could not?

[Onyeeze]

I have thought about quitting gambling and I have been able to do so but it was too late for me which led to huge losses. Although I still enjoy gambling but not on a large scale. I sometimes enjoy gambling for entertainment. But at one time I was addicted to gambling and when I was losing I thought about quitting gambling but I couldn't quit because I had a lot of emotions towards gambling and I expected a lot from gambling which made me think of gambling as a positive thing even after making huge losses. This happens to every addicted gambler but those who can control themselves and stay away from emotions can quit gambling immediately when they want to.

Gambling addiction can never end well if it's not well handled on time . Many don't usually realise it on time because gambling addiction is not something that happens once it build up with time , due to the how one approach gambling . Like many came into gambling with the wrong mindset.

That's why I usually urge gamblers to play it safe because they can't beat the system. Playing it safe will actually give one the edge to minimise their losses .

gambling addiction, is something that happened gradually and even as a gambler they will not notice in time that you are detailed in gambling unless people who is around you inform you that you are addicted in gambling and the secondly if you are gambling every time and they don't have a budget in gambling by you spend the week or monthly don't means you are addicted in gambling so we need to let our people know when they are addicted in gambling and then when there are not, some of us don't know because there are being carried away with what they will benefit from gambling so if we have a particular budget for gambling I think that we are not going to be addicted

[bhadz]

People should examine themselves on time, to know if they are still on track or if they are going astray and this can be achieved by setting budget and also settling limits,  if they notice that they are now exceeding themselves from the normal ways, they should know that they are on their way to addiction and until they stop themselves, they can't be able to control themselves when they are ready and this will cause them to trouble.

Addiction won't be noticed by themselves. They'll only get to see the signs of it but they will be in denial when they're already near to it or when they're actually one. And that's why if they're feeling quitting, they just can't and what they'd do is to make sure that they won't feel that they're addicted already. The rejection is there but the acceptance won't be as easy as what people might think for them.

[Accardo]

Addiction won't be noticed by themselves. They'll only get to see the signs of it but they will be in denial when they're already near to it or when they're actually one. And that's why if they're feeling quitting, they just can't and what they'd do is to make sure that they won't feel that they're addicted already. The rejection is there but the acceptance won't be as easy as what people might think for them.

When a player accepts and shares with other people how they feel about themself regarding problem gaming, the gambler would be considered almost free from compulsive gambling. Unfortunately, most problem players don't mingle with friends or relative anymore, they prefer to lock in the closet of the problem and try to fix the compulsion their own way, not realizing how terrible it's like making it out in that manner, the problem then persists and puts the gambler into a more severe loss and big pain.

[LastKiss]

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I’ve taken breaks a few times when I went on losing streaks and lost a decent amount of money but after some time passed, the urge to play always comes back. So slowly I taught myself to be disciplined with my spending in gambling and keep stick to my budget plan. Right now, the reason to quit gambling is gone and instead I try to play with discipline and a commitment to myself not to repeat the same mistakes. If quitting gambling feels hard or impossible maybe it's better to change how you deal with it.

[SPIDERMAN008]

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I’ve taken breaks a few times when I went on losing streaks and lost a decent amount of money but after some time passed, the urge to play always comes back. So slowly I taught myself to be disciplined with my spending in gambling and keep stick to my budget plan. Right now, the reason to quit gambling is gone and instead I try to play with discipline and a commitment to myself not to repeat the same mistakes. If quitting gambling feels hard or impossible maybe it's better to change how you deal with it.

If you can keep yourself disciplined, you will not be able to give up gambling. People want to quit gambling only when they realize that gambling is causing unbearable financial losses. Discipline and proper budgeting always keep people on the right track. Whenever someone goes beyond this and wants to gamble, they are at risk of becoming addicted. Once they become addicted, it causes a lot of problem . We should not become addicted, as we should keep everything under our control and give more importance to discipline.

[Jody.Drummer]

People should examine themselves on time, to know if they are still on track or if they are going astray and this can be achieved by setting budget and also settling limits,  if they notice that they are now exceeding themselves from the normal ways, they should know that they are on their way to addiction and until they stop themselves, they can't be able to control themselves when they are ready and this will cause them to trouble.

Addiction won't be noticed by themselves. They'll only get to see the signs of it but they will be in denial when they're already near to it or when they're actually one. And that's why if they're feeling quitting, they just can't and what they'd do is to make sure that they won't feel that they're addicted already. The rejection is there but the acceptance won't be as easy as what people might think for them.

I think there are some people who are aware that they are addicted to gambling but the problem is that the desire to get this win is so big that it makes them continue gambling even though it clearly makes their finances a mess because behind it there is the hope of being able to get a big win that can help their finances get better but unfortunately it is not a sure guarantee in gambling because losses are more dominant when we do gambling. In addition, with those who are addicted, it could be that they will be more focused on gambling because this is something that is in their brain and has consumed most of their thoughts, even though they are aware but they tend to do it anyway.

[tread93]

I just feel that gambling is a very slippery slope in some cases right.  It takes some crazy hope and a dream to pull through. Either that or those guys just dont gaf and are on the juice or something man. I mean to gamble like its religion is a serous habit. Always use moderation.  Don't dwell in what you lost if you lose, you know the stakes! Move forward, even if that means you need to leave gambling behind for a bit

[ZeroVinsonN]

Most times after a near win I get annoyed to the point of telling myself I won't be gambling again, it's just a temporary outburst, it's not lti lost too much to that single bet, why it annoys me is simply because I can usually almost taste my winning only for something to happen and ruin the whole thing, like in sports gambling with a multiple bet and all but one plays in your favour, most annoying part is that it's usually the last game that brings about your loss, I get so annoyed after such games but still not something that winning make me quit.

[atookz]

I’ve taken breaks a few times when I went on losing streaks and lost a decent amount of money but after some time passed, the urge to play always comes back. So slowly I taught myself to be disciplined with my spending in gambling and keep stick to my budget plan. Right now, the reason to quit gambling is gone and instead I try to play with discipline and a commitment to myself not to repeat the same mistakes. If quitting gambling feels hard or impossible maybe it's better to change how you deal with it.

It is quite natural that this person who goes into a losing streak and loses a lot of his/her money gambling is going to immediately start thinking about quitting to gamble anymore. However, quitting gambling isn't easy because there's bound to be a desire to start playing again and recoup previous losses. And nearly all gamblers are not able in this state to cease absolutely. What you have done was right, to control and be disciplined in spending when gambling is the right thing to do not to make any mistakes when gambling. I believe that until gambling does not destroy your finances, and also does not affect your life negatively, then it is okay. Rather than attempting to maintain the stopping gambling but not able to control it, we better begin to change the way we approach it first whilst we attempt to stop should we wish to stop gambling.

[GrafMonteKristo]

I wanted to quit so many times, but I just couldn’t. I knew I had a major issue taking on mind the stress, the money lost and the problems I got myself into with debts. Major thank you to my family that got me in rehab and now I’m almost 9 months clean from gambling and got no plans to ever comeback.

[Free Market Capitalist]

Major thank you to my family that got me in rehab and now I’m almost 9 months clean from gambling and got no plans to ever comeback.

It’s not a matter of choice. You have no other option. You can’t place even a single bet again, unlike me—I can just place a couple of bets and that’s it. It’s the same as an alcoholic in recovery who can’t have even a drop of alcohol again. A single bet often triggers that old self-destructive pattern, just as a single sip of alcohol does for former alcoholics. It may seem like your only way out, but take heart—there are plenty of people who recover and move forward.

[impulse709]

People should examine themselves on time, to know if they are still on track or if they are going astray and this can be achieved by setting budget and also settling limits,  if they notice that they are now exceeding themselves from the normal ways, they should know that they are on their way to addiction and until they stop themselves, they can't be able to control themselves when they are ready and this will cause them to trouble.

Addiction won't be noticed by themselves. They'll only get to see the signs of it but they will be in denial when they're already near to it or when they're actually one. And that's why if they're feeling quitting, they just can't and what they'd do is to make sure that they won't feel that they're addicted already. The rejection is there but the acceptance won't be as easy as what people might think for them.

I can agree with that fact, since most gamblers have no idea how deep they are until it begins to impact their decision making and their emotions. Making limits and budgets appear easy, but once emotions come to play those rules usually are disobeyed. The most difficult stage is the denial stage where an individual is aware that something is wrong but he/she does not want to accept it. That is why it seems so hard to quit even when there is the intention to do so. Awareness to me is never sufficient there must be discipline, sometimes outside help, to actually walk away before it becomes a major issue.

[Outhue]

It's always almost impossible to quit gambling, because all the past times you have spent gambling has already become a part of you, it's more than a hobby already, so I expect it to be extremely hard to quit on gambling, and this is why I don't believe anyone that says they want to quit gambling, sooner or later they will always be back.

If gambling is already something you can't do without, quitting because you lost money isn't the solution, learn how to be a responsible gambler, that's the best thing to do, learn how to be disciplined with gambling, risk only what you can afford to lose, learn from the mistakes of wanting to mark every bets right,  losing is part of gambling and it's very likely than to win.

[bakasabo]

I had quite a similar situation with video games in my past. I could not quit playing World of Warcraft, a game I was playing for 5 years. Almost all my time when I was studying in university. Reason I find it hard to quit because game developer added new content regularly. There was always something new to do and to explore, additional to farming and gathering resources. I think same happens to some of those who could not quit gambling - besides they want to get money back or win more, there is always something new to try and to explore.

[Zadicar]

I was just pondering within myself why most gamblers keep complaining of the losses they incure in gambling but are unable to quit. There is one thing I noticed that keeps us gambling even when we are not at profit. Every gambler is full of optimism, even though we loose our bet, we still believe subsequent bet will favour us, and it may or may not also work that way. We sometimes see, and hear on the news how some bettors have won huge bet, and they flaunt on the news sometimes with the betting company or what they have achieved with the money they won. All those things we see are real, and they keep motivating us to gamble even while recording long time losses.

There are patient loosers who are lucky to hit it big after many seasons of losses, but still not every long term looser will be lucky enough to hit big win someday.
Sometimes, as gamblers we fill discouraged in the market, because long term losses. Therefore we should maintain carefulness as we remain in the gambling market, and gamble responsibly if at all you cannot quit as a result of losses.

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Into those days on which ive been losing up that much then i told myself on quitting or stopping or having a break but on the other day i did play once again and ending up on the same scenario and the cycle continues and this is whats happening for most people on which they do keep on telling about stopping or quitting when they do lose that bankroll on a particular session but it keeps on coming back. This is why gambling business is really that profitable just because gamblers do make the same mistake all over again and again and they would literally stop at the moment that they dont have anymore money but once you do still have the funds that you can play on then you wouldnt definitely stop not until you would be busting it up all. So it will be that up to your control whether you should stop or not but if you are that playing just for fun and entertainment then there would be no issues but if you are already that becomes impulsive and already spending into the amount that you can afford to lose then its best to literally stop before things gets worst.

[Yablee0]

gambling addiction, is something that happened gradually and even as a gambler they will not notice in time that you are detailed in gambling unless people who is around you inform you that you are addicted in Gambling and the secondly if you are gambling every time and they don't have a budget in gambling by you spend the week or monthly don't means you are addicted in gambling so we need to let our people know when they are addicted in gambling and then when there are not, some of us don't know because there are being carried away with what they will benefit from gambling so if we have a particular budget for gambling I think that we are not going to be addicted

Any gambler that has started towing a path of chasing of lost, that gambler should be rest assured that he's on his way to gamble addiction no doubt. And for any reason, you are thinking or planning to use gamble as your source of living them you are gone for life because the only time you will understand what you have done to yourself is when you are on your way back to the village. However, waiting for people around you to start telling you that you're becoming addicted is like a medicine after death, why waiting for people to tell you your wrongs when you are already at your dieing point. For cry out loud, this is something we can even prevent from happening by doing what is expected from us. Therefore, if you understand what addiction are and how terrible it is then what you should be emphasizing on is how not to let it come close to you not even in a day.

[knowngunman]

I was just pondering within myself why most gamblers keep complaining of the losses they incure in gambling but are unable to quit. There is one thing I noticed that keeps us gambling even when we are not at profit. Every gambler is full of optimism, even though we loose our bet, we still believe subsequent bet will favour us, and it may or may not also work that way. We sometimes see, and hear on the news how some bettors have won huge bet, and they flaunt on the news sometimes with the betting company or what they have achieved with the money they won. All those things we see are real, and they keep motivating us to gamble even while recording long time losses.
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If you assume subsequent bet will be positive after losing the previous bet, that's your emotion trying to take control of you and you should never give it the chance to control you. As a gambler, I believe we've experienced this before in one way or another in the process of gambling. We'll tell ourselves we quit gambling after losing some significant amount but after a few days or week we found ourselves getting back to it. It's all lack of emotional control and that's unfortunately how addiction kick in if the inability to control your emotions become extreme. To quit gambling, you don't need to take that decision after losing money because you're not the one taking the decision that time but your inner emotions controlling you.

[Bitcoin_people]

When a person cannot make a profit by gambling and he still gambles in the midst of losses, then it should be understood that he has become addicted to gambling. Again, there are some gamblers who think that since they have continuously lost, they continue to gamble with the hope that the next bets will win. However, we often see that gamblers can achieve big wins sometimes, focusing on that possibility, many gamblers continue their gambling with hope. However, those who are patient are very optimistic, they may win, but greed is not good at all. I think that when a person keeps losing while gambling, he must stop himself for some time. If he stops and starts again later, there may be a possibility of winning, but when he cannot take a break and loses his control, he will definitely fall into the losers.

[nara1892]

Of course I have, you could even say that I often tell myself that I have to stop especially when I am still stuck in the cycle of addiction that makes my head hurt almost all the time, but yes saying it is always much easier than practicing it, when someone is addicted it will be very difficult to ignore the temptation that comes, whether it is from their own thoughts or seeing other people who have succeeded in winning and often what makes it even more difficult for someone to stop is because they have a great curiosity so they always think "maybe try one more time I will win" or "this is the last one", in the end they never stop.

[bubilas]

I was just pondering within myself why most gamblers keep complaining of the losses they incure in gambling but are unable to quit. There is one thing I noticed that keeps us gambling even when we are not at profit. Every gambler is full of optimism, even though we loose our bet, we still believe subsequent bet will favour us, and it may or may not also work that way. We sometimes see, and hear on the news how some bettors have won huge bet, and they flaunt on the news sometimes with the betting company or what they have achieved with the money they won. All those things we see are real, and they keep motivating us to gamble even while recording long time losses.

There are patient loosers who are lucky to hit it big after many seasons of losses, but still not every long term looser will be lucky enough to hit big win someday.
Sometimes, as gamblers we fill discouraged in the market, because long term losses. Therefore we should maintain carefulness as we remain in the gambling market, and gamble responsibly if at all you cannot quit as a result of losses.

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The gambling industry—lotteries, online casinos, land-based casinos, and, of course, betting—is rife with promotion, and it's incredibly adept at self-promoting without any investment from the casino's creators. For example, if you see a news article about someone winning a lot of money, it's just news, and it strongly triggers all players to buy a lottery ticket right then and there. Everyone believes they'll win, too. Many friends share with their friends that they've won money betting, and this also motivates their friends to place a bet. It's like a virus that spreads from one person to another, except in gambling, it's the idea of ​​being involved.