STOP GAMBLING BOOKS

Stop Gambling Books was created to help compulsive gamblers and family members of problem gamblers.

What We Do

Through proper education, society can develop programs to stop compulsive gambling addiction before it gets out of control. It’s unfortunate that people are willing to educate themselves only after they have been negatively affected by gambling. In most situations the damage has been done.

When most people think of education they think of schools and books. When in reality every day we are educating ourselves about life from the time we get up. To Learn about compulsive gamblers all we need to do is observe their patterns. Breaking the patterns will help in the recovery process. All the signs are there, all we have to do is face the truth. You start to ask yourself more and more questions. What are we going to do? We are going to find all the resources available and apply them to our situation. Through this knowledge we will help to accelerate the recovery. The first area to look at is your understanding of what you are going through. It does not matter if you are the compulsive gambler, friend of the compulsive gambler or related to the compulsive gambler. Your life has been affected. It’s now time to focus. Educating yourself on compulsive gambling addiction will help you to plan for your future. You can have a wonderful future.

It’s first important to understand the definitions of compulsive, gambling and addiction. Through knowledge you will gain a better understanding of compulsive gambling addiction and find new alternative ways to treat it.

Compulsive is an uncontrollable desire to do something.

Gambling is the wagering of money where the end result is uncertain and the individual is willing to take a chance.

Addiction is a craving that develops into a dependency to repeat a certain behavior over and over with out regard for the outcome.

It’s unfortunate but most people can not tell that they have an addiction until they have developed a self destructive behavior that has negatively affected their life.

What causes a person to have a compulsive gambling addiction? No one knows for sure, but there are many similarities in the type of individual that have becomes addicted. If we can understand the type personality that is more susceptible to addiction, then we can at least safe guard ourselves. For example it’s an established fact that children of alcoholics have greater chance of becoming an alcoholic. Since there has been significant growth in the gambling industry more and more people have developed a compulsive gambling addiction.

Gambling is a common practice all over the world. It’s believed that gambling dates back to the ancient civilizations where people would gather to take a chance even though the odds were against them. 

SELF HELP STOP GAMBLING ADDICTION MANUALS

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SELF HELP STOP GAMBLING ADDICTION MANUALS

Gambling is a common practice all over the world. It’s believed that gambling dates back to the ancient civilizations where people would gather to take a chance even though the odds were against them.

This question most gamblers ask themselves when they begin to realize gambling has affected their lives.

Most gamblers intent is not to lose all their money, but rather to win big and buy all those materialist items they have always dreamed of.  Gamblers are not selfish people; in fact they enjoy buying things for their family and friends. 

Compulsive gamblers live their lives to just place one more bet.  It doesn’t matter if a compulsive gambler is up five thousand dollars, they will still gamble until they lost all the money they came with.  This is reality for a compulsive gambler.  At the time they finally win, their ego’s sore like a bird in flight.  For that very instant they feel like their on top of the world.  For them there is no other way they can get that euphoric feeling.  This is what keeps a compulsive gambler from really wanting to stop gambling.

When a compulsive gambler realizes that they are always losing there money reality sets in.  They then question themselves.  “Do I really want to stop gambling?  They decide yes I want to stop gambling.  They are feeling good about there decision.   They finally made the decision to stop.  The next day comes and goes.  The compulsive gambler is feeling good about them selves.  All of sudden they get a call from a friend. Next thing you know you’re in the car headed to meet them at the gambling establishment.  You now realize you didn’t stop gambling.  You then play games with your mind, telling yourself “just one more time and I will stop.”  On the way to the gambling establishment you start thinking about the big win and how you are going to spend the money.  You finally arrive and place your first bet.  As the night goes on you realize you’re ahead, you’re on top of the world and then everything begins to crumble.  You only have twenty dollars left in your wallet.  What do you do now?  You reach for your wallet and realized you have a credit card you can get three hundred dollars off of.  You head directly to the credit card cashing area and look for the shortest line.  You start wondering why this line is moving so slowly.  When in reality it’s only been a few minutes.  You finally get the money and you begin to gamble again.  Before you know it you lost that money too.  You finally decide to leave and head home.  In less then one minute after leaving you begin to ask yourself “Why didn’t I leave when I was up?  How could I go and take three hundred dollars off my credit card.  How could I lose all my money again?  What am I going to tell my wife?  How could I do this again?

They finally arrive back at home and have to face the music.  Once again they ask them selves: How could I do this again?  They then decide it’s time to stop.  The next day arrives and they ask themselves “Do I really want to stop gambling?”  The logical answer is yes but the reality is no.

Once a compulsive gambler no longer has any resources to gamble with, reality sets in and they are willing to admit they have a gambling problem.  I have met a person who attended a gambler’s anonymous meeting and convinced themselves that their problems were minimal compared to the people at the table.  A year passed and this same person went back to same Gamblers Anonymous group and their situation is worse then the people he met at the first meeting.  He now wishes he stopped a year ago.  Don’t let this happen to you or a loved one. 

The website  I Stopped Gambling So Can You that has informational resources related to stop gambling addiction.