What's the best time to talk to a gambler to convince him to slow down or stop

[HelliumZ]

What do you think is the best time to communicate with your friend who is addicted to gambling to convince him to slow down or stop gambling?

Let's discuss this based on your experience and opinion.

I always gave good advice to gamblers and once I went to their houses to make them aware but unfortunately despite my efforts I could not make some gamblers better and instead I got a lot of damage from them. I once brought some of my friends to my house to give good advice. But unfortunately some of those friends stole money from my savings. Since then I have always stayed away from my gambling friends. Being with them I have learnt one thing in life that bad gamblers never take good advice and they will always take good advice as bad. So I have sworn that I will never give good advice to any gambler and will always keep a proper distance from them. And I have decided that I will not have family relations with any gambler because they are more likely to be stolen.

[Marvelockg]

But as a friend, you don't want your friend to waste money on gambling and waste their life, so you keep the communication open because there will be a time when they are open to talking about their situation.

If you are an irresponsible gambler just like your friend, it is hard for you to talk them out of the addictive behaviors of being an irresponsible gambler. the weight in the advice you give your friend comes from the fact that he knows that you on your end is not an addict and that you are making an overall better decision than he is making. if you have fixed that with yourself, there is no point waiting for a friend to become addicted before advising him to come out of an addictive behavior. once you notice that he is going in an extreme way, call him to action. once he gets addicted, it will take additional effort for you to take him out of his addictive behavior.

[Merit.s]

The best time was when he still gambling with his normal senses but overdoing it. If you miss that time or he didn't listen, it becomes difficult for him to listen when he has become an addict because by then it's beyond his control.

I do feel for addicted gamblers especially, when you're trying to talk to them and they turn deaf ears on you. It's a sign that they wouldn't give up on gambling so easy. If only they can quit.

[lovesmayfamilis]

The best time was when he still gambling with his normal senses but overdoing it. If you miss that time or he didn't listen, it becomes difficult for him to listen when he has become an addict because by then it's beyond his control.

I do feel for addicted gamblers especially, when you're trying to talk to them and they turn deaf ears on you. It's a sign that they wouldn't give up on gambling so easy. If only they can quit.

I think that friends, long before their addiction to gambling, can show their character in one way or another, indicating that a person can be very prone to gambling. Knowing a friend's temperament, you can always remind him of where his gambling addiction can lead him, even at the initial steps (games) of such a person.
In any case, funds are always needed to play, and if you see your friend starting to lose control of his finances, talking about his addiction shouldn't wait in the wings. Show him all his mistakes, as well as examples of those who have become who, having a similar passion for games without stopping.
Most of the time, the examples will not be positive, and the prospect of becoming the next victim of gambling addiction can often stop and make your friend think.

[Iranus]

So you keep the communication open because there will be a time when they are open to talking about their situation.
What do you think is the best time to communicate with your friend who is addicted to gambling to convince him to slow down or stop gambling?

But won't your waiting for the right time push him towards greater destruction?

If you think that when he comes to you in extreme mental distress or depression after losing everything, that is the best time to convince him then you are terribly mistaken!

A gambler who come to you with his entire bankroll empty, does not come to listen your advice. He comes from acute desperation.

At that time, logical thinking becomes completely ineffective for gambler. Then, if you try to stop him, he will show temporary sympathy. But the next moment, he will secretly borrow money to recover his losses. They may even ask you for financial help!

Rather than waiting for a specific miracle or ideal moment, it would be the job of a good friend to warn him before he goes completely bankrupt.

[POPOLUV]

What do you think is the best time to communicate with your friend who is addicted to gambling to convince him to slow down or stop gambling?

Let's discuss this based on your experience and opinion.

Honestly speaking gamblers and drug addict are the most difficult people to handle or advise because they love what they are doing, and advising them is like pocknosing into an affair that doesn't concerns you. But however there is a way this people are being handled. The thing is that you must find a person he respects or a person who his comfortable in shearing his problem with, then such person can know the exact time to talk to him . It could be his  brother/sister, mother/father or even girlfriend/wife. There is definitely someone he listens to, the person will be in best position to know how to advise him that he will not pick offense. Otherwise this people no matter how you try they gt angry easily for no reason.

That is why it is easily to identify or arrest an addicted drug patients and send them to a rehabilitation center to undergoes treatment and lecture on the negative effects of the hard drugs they are finding pleasure with, for at least three to six months depending on how the addiction is and another thing about addiction in gambling, that is not special compared to those addicted drugs patients is that, once you are addicted to gambling, you can't be arrested or neither the addicted gambler will be taken to a rehabilitation center, so i believe that is only a family member can help in putting end to any addicted gamblers like you suggested because i don't think there are best time convinced or stop an addicted gambler than letting any gamblers on time never to put his means of survival in gambling or never to start gambling in the first place.