I want to quit Gambling....(Any Advice)

Hey guys,

I'm not going to give you some sad story that I lost my entire bankroll, or my house, etc. Last night I was doing my usual looking up what I wanted. Made a few bets won a couple, lost a couple. Got my rush and went about my day.

Later on in that night I just found myself asking why the fuck do I do this? Why do I allow myself to be stressed out in close games and curse that shit out of people who do stupid shit. I mean it's my fault for putting myself in this situation. Not the coach of a bball team, or a kid playing. It's all on me.

I kept saying to myself the house alway wins. As a gambler you have are nearly on a roller coaster all the time. Big wins, good weeks, then hit by bad ones. My feeling is that I just want to give it up all in all. I hate the way I feel after losing, and sometimes I stress myself out trying to make money that I end up losing. I do have a tendency once in a while to bet more then I should and that is what scares me. I'm a chaser and I know not too.

Any advice on how to quit? Starting today I'm seriously going to try, but know I will be hit by the bug to do it again, but in all honesty I don't want to. The addiction of gambling wants me too, but I don't. I have a decent job (with this shit ass economy) glad I have one, and have some money saved. I seriously feel that one day I will blow it on gambling and want to stop. I'm only 29 and have been gambling for 7 years. I don't want to go on like this. The highs and lows are not worth the stress to me anymore and hope I can quit, but know temptation will always be there.

Thanks for letting me rant,

Kuddish

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You have several choices -

Imprint the sense of how much of a waste of time and emotion that it truly is and draw form that memory when the urge strikes you. Find something else to do that, while equally taxing has a legitimate upside - ie flip houses, or sell shit on ebay and so on.

Become a bookie. Start slow and only accept parlays until you build a significant cushion. This is an excellent option because - ultimately - you will have action on nearly every game and NO chance of losing. Few bookmakers would reveal this fact to you but as you have already obseved the house always wins. When you do occasionally take a hit for a week or two, you can view those "payoffs" as "loans". If you choose, make subtle marks on the bills and laugh when the exact same c-notes come back to you the next pay cycle.

Or

Put $300 in a decent off shore book - 5 dimes would be my choice - and try and make a game of making it last. Once you have accepted the reality of it all, a $5 or $10 wager is just as exhilarating as a $500 or $1000 one. Double up and withdraw and BUY something - a mattress, a new driver, or a years worth of carwashes, what it is does not matter just make it material. The ritual of it all is the same (handicapping, line shopping, in game stress, post game self adulation or remorse). Accept that you are simply feeding the beast and put him on a diet.

 

I hope this helps -

 

tiki is right

bet 5 or 10 bucks a game

when i am just bored from feb to may, i will throw $5 on an nba total just to pass the time

Start smoking weed.

It is funny how when you break it down, it is not even about the money. Looking at some stats and picking a side, then watching the game and being right and wrong is what is the drug.

I can get just as happy/pissed with 5 on it as 100.

What is funny and there is no money on the line....Get 4 or 5 in a row on the survivor streak then lose that 6th game.

No way I can ever quit but trying to control the impulsive joys of degenerate gambling is the key to not having a problem.

I can't even watch a sporting event unless I have something on it. Actually I could care less about sports if it were strictly a spectator thing.

Quitting is not in a true gamblers vocab

It sounds like your units are too high there, kuddish. I third the recommendation of lowering the unit amount so that the swings are not as emotional.

just ask yourself how much youve lost in your 7 years of gambling. if it makes you sick to your stomach to do the math, then do the math ! And remember that feeling. GL

Well said.

Sorry kuddish, you are getting some bad advice from guys here.
Lowering your bets isnt going to change anything, if quitting is what you want to do. Your still gonna get pissed off when you lose a 10 buck bet and it still gonna stress you out and its still gonna endup wasting your time away and before you know it, your whole life will have passed before you.
You will wake up one day and say to yourself, why the hell did i waste my whole life away gambling.
I have been doing this for 30 plus years with tons of good days and tons of bad days, and every day when am placing my bets, i say to myself i wish that i never learned how to gamble because its been a big waste of alot of time in life.
Dont let anybody kid you, very few people win long term at gambling because the odds are always stacked against you. Yes there are some people who are successful, but even the sportsbooks have said only 5-10 percent of all bettors win long term.  So if you arent in that 5-10 percent your wasting time and money away.
Some guys here will tell you, the rush is about handicapping and picking the right side and they are right to a certain degree, but in the end its still gonna be about the cashhhhhhhhh.
If you want to win, then become the bookie, not many books go broke.
I wish i was you with only 7 years into betting because i would try my ass off to get out of this game and find something else to do.
So i wish you luck whichever way you decide to go, but just know lowering your bets will not help you long term, because sooner or later you will be right back to placing your normal size bets, especially if you start winning the lowered bets.
cd

s streak might be a good placebo

never quit

I agree with cd..

Nice to know I am not alone.

I appreciate all the Advice guys.

CD & Wallstreet. I think I'm leaning in your direction. Going to try and give it up in general. I'm still young and don't want to be looking like a beat up old Obama when I turn 40.

1 day down....Need to keep it going.

it's like quitting any addiction the begining is the hardest.You gotta find something else to soak up those energies though. GL buddy.

looking like a beat up old Obama when I turn 40. 

Kuddish,
 I wish you all the luck in the world in succeeding with this, because 20 years from now you will look back and say it was the best thing you ever did.
On top of feeling better, am sure you will have a ton more money to do things with.
cd

p.s.dont fail me, because am gonna live thru you, since theres no chance that i will ever be able to stop, just to late in the game now.

I completely agree with this.  Take it a step further and if you're serious - Ask Covers to close your account and stay away from here. You don't see many alcoholics going to a bar when they try to stop drinking. 

Out of sight, out of mind!!!

You sound exactly like me Kuddish.     My advice is to just stop watching sports.  I've quit in the past but only briefly.  I just stopped watching.  Tough to stop watching football but easier to stop watching the  other sports.  So maybe you should just quit after football is over.  GL

    Good pick man.  Hope you listened Kuddish. 

look ahead at your life in 20 years. keep gambling and you wont have avything

The only way to really quit is to just stop watching sports on a regular basis. You will soon realize you are not keeping up with stats and research, etc. and then you will start to not even know the spread of games. Keep yourself busy with other things really. If you can't do that, just scale back the amount you bet. Like really scale down. GL