Quote from: tsaroz on Today at 10:21:07 AM

Quote from: Agbamoni on March 13, 2025, 11:38:23 AM

Always making sure this is brief as possible.

From my observation on addiction, i get to see how addiction is like a chain. Individuals moving from one addiction to another and how several addictions or one addiction can give birth/rise to the gambling addiction. We can all agree as an individual there are several things in life we can be addicted to aside gambling.

Substances like like alcohol or stimulants addiction (drinking), Nicotine dopamine and weed addiction (smoking), to mention a few others can influence a responsible gambler into becoming addicted. There are people in the society who gamble to humanize, smoke or drink, or go out on expensive rides and stuffs.

When it becomes difficult for someone is addicted to gambling to quit. I think its not just about quitting gambling he has to do, if he as any other thing he is addicted to he should first quit on those ones because quitting those ones might make him lose interest automatically in gambling.

I have to agree to you to some extent. I too have seen such people where one addiction is just a starting point for another.
Personally, I don't think I have addiction of any sorts. I do gamble and drink a lot and occasionally smoke weed (I don't smoke tobacco), but I'm not addicted to it. I can just omit them if I'm busy or could go on weeks without indulging on gambling or alcohol. I also have a strict rule that I don't gamble when intoxicated. In past I had some bad experience gambling when drunk or being high. I now just have more control over when to stop. I don't do hard drugs or prostitution.
But there are many people who are addicted to all of those. Gambling, Intoxication and Prostitution is a common trio for most wealthy men and are one of the largest reason for men destroying their family.

Honestly, I don't think that all addictions are related to each other, surely if an individual
has an addiction to a soft drug he could easily move on to a hard drug.
But if you are addicted to cigarettes, it has no connection with gambling.
Any addiction is harmful, unfortunately no one is exempt from this discomfort, everyone has the risk.
Staying balanced is perhaps the most difficult thing for a human being to achieve.