How many times have you said that to yourself? usually we only say this when we've already lost badly. Once we've lost control and a significant amount of money, we regret our actions and promise ourselves we won't gamble again. We tell ourselves we're done gambling to avoid repeating the same mistakes.
The key maybe is to not say it to yourself but to let other people know about it too so that they can offer you support when needed. You can also let gambling prevent you from ever going back. Wanting to quit gambling will be hard if you are the only one you can betray. But if your family and friends know that you are quitting then you might want to think twice before coming back.
Maybe that's one way but I believe that quitting gambling is very difficult especially if we have been addicted to gambling for a long time.
I even say that very often when I lose a lot in gambling but as time goes by when my finances return to normal then I will gamble again.
If there is a strong desire to stop gambling and say so not when you are down, I think there are few people who can do it even if they only say so to themselves.
Quitting gambling could be done whether on easy or hard depending into someones mentality on which it will be that just that depending on you whether you could stop midway or would be still that continuing to play as long you do have that money into your pocket then you would be considering out such act until you do exhaust it all. The main reason on why gambling is a profitable business into its owners is just that because of these people who cant be able to control themselves at the moment that they do gamble. They do make themselves that out of control whenever they do play gambling and be trying out to play no matter what on which it would be neither they are aiming to get back their loses or they will be that trying out to get more wins at the moment that they had become that greedy. There are people who can be able to make out such control and to those people who cant be able to do so.
If you do find yourself already that spending up tons of money towards gambling and sees out that it is affecting you negatively, then it is just that right that you should be stopping on doing it.