devilman wrote:
Do you still experience pangs of addiction when playing now? Or is it easy for you to drag yourself away from it these days?
The old addict me is still in there somewhere, I like to keep that wanker caged up and poke him with a stick. He doesn't get to gamble the way he wants to anymore.
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It's kinda nice to see someone actually make a bit of money from it all as so many others, myself very much included, just lose and lose. Thanks to Gamstop, I pretty much can't gamble anywhere online now and the bookies have a number you can phone to ban yourself from multiple shops in the area. Plus I got myself excluded from the two local arcades as well. So if I want to gamble now, I'd have to travel out of town and that's enough of a deterrent to any spur of the moment urges I get. Only 83 days without gambling so far, but steady progress.
Keep it up fella, abstinence is definitely the best approach most of the time IMO, I wouldn't recommend my 'controlled former junkie' approach to other people.....
I remember back in my hardcore fruit machine addict days when they pretty much cost me everything, 'quitting' time and time again, and despite the carnage they were wreaking with my life and often those around me as well, I generally did well to manage a week. 83 days is a fine achievement, stick with it