It is a have to keep yourself busy doing other things instead of trying to play, even using a play money.
The system inside you will lead you to play back using real money. It's unavoidable.
Yes, that is exactly what I mean. Saying that a gambling addict will have the same or similar satisfaction gambling with play money is like saying that an adrenaline junkie trying to quit base jumping will have similar satisfaction jumping on a trampoline. Because the source of the high is not the same, the euphoria will be different. The same logic applies to pathological gamblers and their pathological behavior.
I strongly agree.
Also, playing gambling using fake money won't give you anything, you're just fooling yourself. Besides, using fake money doesn't contain any challenge, because of course it's just a game using fake money, compare to real gambling, it has more challenge since we're talking about winnings and profits. Using fake money can't heal someone's addiction, because it will just bore them to the highest and eventually they will start playing the real thing again.