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How to Stop Gambling Addictions

By Michelle WithaM, published Apr 02, 2006
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Gambling Addiction is difficult to overcome. People who have a gambling problem often deny that they have a problem. They often don't want to stop gambling. It is all about the rush that they get each time that they play the slot machine. Gambling addictions doesn't just hurt the person, but it hurts the other people that around him or her. The family often suffers since the person has an addiction to gambling. People who gamble do have major money problems.

How does the Gambling Addiction Start?

Often a person does start with going to the casino on payday to cash a paycheck. You see at a casino they will give people extra money when they cash a paycheck at the casino's since they will be more likely to spend more money. They often tell themselves that they will just a spend ten dollars. Next thing they know that ten dollars begin to turn into fifty dollars and then it becomes hundreds of dollars spent within minutes. Each time the gambler wins a little money it excites them. The fact that they win little money here and there is what keeps them going. They always tell themselves “one more try” at the slot machines.

They just tell themselves all the time that if they play it enough eventually they will win the jackpot. You have a better chance at getting book contract somewhere than winning the big jackpot in a casino. The casinos enable gamblers to keep gambling by offering them free drinks in the hopes that they will spend more money at the casino. The casinos also have the rewards cards that you put into the slot machines in order to get points for freebies and free hotel stays at the casino. The points does depend upon how much money that a person spends in a slot machine.

Takeaways
  • The gambler addict needs to want to stop.
  • The addict wont stop unless they have nothing left to spend or sell.
  • They need to stay away from anything that tempts them.
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I am addicted to gambling. It started when I hit a couple of thousand dollars on my 21 birthday, that was 13 years ago, i've been chasing that moment ever since! In 2005, I hit big at a Las Vegas casino, I hauled in $13,000 in 5 hours, I was playing the $25 slots each full bet $125, that money lasted 3 weeks. I'm still messing up, I lost my paycheck at local gas station slots, now I have no money to get to work! I need help!!!

Posted on 08/24/2008 at 4:08:57 AM

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