stop gambling

Hello everyone,
I am a 48 year old business woman with an addiction…although i can somewhat control myself, i am miserable knowing that this gambling ghost is always floating around my head…

I find myself in front of a VLT much too often, and am very ashamed of it…I am very unhappy in trying to deal with this and i desperately want to stop..

I have lost tons of weight, stopped smoking cold turkey years ago…so i am convinced i can stop this…but i am also aware that it has become my escame, my thrill…my way out when stress is eating me up…and it is, constantly..

I am here to stop, and I cannot wait to hear from any of you, and read your posts…

I can do this
The Darling

I did.
You can too.
For years I struggled with a gambling habit.
Then it became a problem and finally an obsession.

I never thought I’d be able to stop,
but I finally found the right help and support & was able to stop for good!

You can do. No matter what, always believe and know that with the right help and support you too can stop.

Im here to help in anyway I can.

TO EVERYONE OUT THERE STRUGGLING WITH GAMBLING, YOU CAN STOP!
I DID IT, IVE HELPED MANY OTHERS DO IT AND THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF US WHO’VE STOPPED FOR GOOD.
THE URGES, COMPULSIONS, & THOUGHTS TO GAMBLE FEEL UNBEARABLE AND UNBEATABLE.
BUT WITH THE RIGHT HELP AND SUPPORT YOU CAN BEAT GAMBLING!

ABOUT 5 1/2 YEARS AGO I WAS STRUGGLING WITH GAMBLING.
I’D LOST A FEW HUNDRED THOUSAND GAMBLING, MY FIANCEE LEFT AND I WAS DEAD BROKE AND THEN SOME.

I DIDNT THINK THEN THAT ID BE ABLE TO OVERCOME THE OBSESSIVE THOUGHTS AND URGES TO GAMBLE.
THANKFULLY I WAS WRONG.
IF I CAN DO IT, YOU CAN DO IT!
FOR FREE HELP MESSAGE ME AT JASON@LIVEGAMBLEFREE.COM

I need to stop. These on line casinos are so addicting. I have been playing them for years and I really need to try and stop.

put a block on my PC then had it removed lost £200 again what a looser

remove all gambling sites /black them from my computer

Well, with my last drink being yesterday, I thought I would say goodbye to my gambling habit…

It’s been an expensive friend over the years, costing me many thousands of pounds… We had many arguments, always making up in the end (ie losing lots of money, then putting more in the next day).

So, I am finished with gambling. I’ll earn my money and keep it… This will also get me out of debt, instead of into it.

hmm, it’s difficult…

You think everything is going ok, then perhaps just put £10 in the machine, it’ll be ok, I can walk away from this… but, you can’t.

So, today, I make a pledge. Once and for all I will stop gambling NOW! It’s the reason why I am in horrendous debt and the only way I will be rid of it.

Reading through all the entries on this topic i see that i share the same disturbing patterns. In a way it made me feel some what comfortable knowing that i was not alone, that other people were going through the same sick twisted cycle. I feel i am still young (25) and have a chance to not let this define me. Before i started i was against gambling and hated it, i used to look at the people gambling and feel pity for them not knowing that one day i would be one of them. On a night out my best friend won a large sum of money and i had my first gamble. my perception of gambling starting to change. I knew the odds but i felt that i was lucky, now i waste entire afternoons running back and forth to the ATM. Unlike most people on this site i have not amassed large debts, i have blown a significant amount of my savings, setting myself back years. My friends are buying homes and have heathy savings, i have nothing to show for years of work. it does not matter how much i save because it only take a relapse and i have lost it all. I have been very good at covering up my problem, keeping it from friends, family and especially my girlfriend. I have unfairly hurt my girlfriend most of all, we both work hard to save money and i keep loosing chunks of my savings keeping us from achieving our goals. She means everything to me and even though i know i will lose her if this continues i cannot stop myself. Yesterday i gambled away all but $200 of my savings for a long planed trip away, Once again setting myself back. I need to stop forever, this is not the life i imagined my self living. My fear is that i will post again in the coming months relapsing. i need to quit, i want to quit, i can quit.

Things are turning around I can feel it!! The dreams are there, but I awake and consciously tell myself that my new goals are worth sticking to and don’t even think of slipping cause that leads no where good. So far I am doing very well and am surprised how much lighter I feel already.