Quote from: Solosanz on August 20, 2025, 05:34:03 AM

No it's not easy, if it's easy, I should have successfully convinced many gamblers to stop being addicts.

Quote from: Julien_Olynpic on August 20, 2025, 05:06:56 AM

Everyone knows that smoking is harmful, and excess weight causes health problems, but there are a huge number of people who cannot quit smoking or lose weight. What do you think makes a person become a responsible player and why is it difficult for many?

Smoking is harmful, but it brings nicotine.
Excess weight is harmful, but it brings you happiness.

Being responsible is hard, but life without risk is not challenging. That's why people like to gamble to earn money, they like challenge and want to beat the house. If people said it's risky, they will counter if life itself is already risky, you get a job, you might suffer work accident etc.

It's only difficult once it becomes an addiction, but from that beginning stages it's easy to condition yourself and learn to do it moderately. Just like someone that takes his first sip of alcohol, that moment is actually very important because that is when the person gets to decide if it's going to be an addiction or not. It is easy to be a responsible gambler when you are just starting to gamble but if you don't learn self control it becomes a problem