It would be great to offer everything for free and get sponsorships or deals with governments. However, it's extremely hard to deal with governments. There is another aspects to it as well. People tend to take things more seriously when they pay for something than when it's free. Think of how many free services you've signed up for and never used.

Please do! Send me a PM, or ask them to contact me at support@quitgamble.com

I'm sorry I haven't written anything for a while. I'm amazed to see the activity in this feed. I wish the people I'm trying to help would be as active in discussions as you are.

Here are the latest updates from QuitGamble.com

• We have passed 6500 members on the platform from 150+ countries now.
• The website is live in French, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish and English
• During January, we worked on a study where we asked our members about their gambling habits. We got 3300 responses. I believe it's the biggest study on gambling addicts ever. (I'm a bit proud of that to be honest.) Among the questions we asked were: What do you gamble on? What do you struggle most with? And why do you gamble? We got some interesting results. 73% of gambling addicts gamble on slot machines... among women, that number is +90%. That main reason gambling addicts gamble is to win big money. (However, I've never met a gambling addict who gambles to win... so for me, that result is the most interesting of them all... Because it means that most gambling addicts don't know why they gamble. If you're curious, you can find the full gambling addiction study here.
• A couple of weeks ago, we started with a paywall for our courses and community. There are two reasons, first people tend to value things more if they need to pay for them. By paying, people take things more seriously, and hopefully, that will boost the activity. Second, we need money to be able to run our operations. Our goal is to be self-sustainable to remain completely independent from the gambling industry. All the extensive guides on the website and the Happiness Test will remain free.

It's been a lot of discussions in the thread. Not so many questions for me lately.
We haven't heard anything from any casinos about collaborations. If any casino is interested, don't hesitate to send me a message. By adding information on responsible gambling pages, you can help people find help if they struggle with gambling problems.

Since the thread started, QuitGamble.com has launched in Portuguese and French. Hopefully, we can add more content on the Spanish site soon as well. Tomorrow, our platform will reach 5000 members. Something we looked forward to for a long time.

So far we only have written testimonials from users we talked to. We hope to develop a better way of measuring things next year.


I'd love to have the website in 20 languages, but the cost of translating is about $6K and I don't have the funds for it. If we would get a sponsor, I would be happy to translate the website into more languages.


The forum is available for the members in order to keep their discussion private. It would naturally be better for us to have it available on the website, because it creates free content for us. But it's more important to us that the users feel safe. Hence, you have to login to see the forum.

For the past 5 years, I have funded the development of the platform from my own pocket. I've tried to get help from governmental organizations, gambling commissions, and gambling companies. But most often, our efforts have just been ignored. This summer we got a donation from an affiliate company of €25K. It was fantastic, but as you understand. €25K is just pennies compared to the total cost of development over the last 5 years. We hope that will change next year. If anyone wants to support us, a free way to do that is to sign-post QuitGamble on responsible gambling pages. I also offer to write responsible gambling pages for a fee.

We have worked out our method to help people over time. We had ideas 5 years ago, and I have talked with 100s of addicts since then. Every time you learn something new. The biggest challenge we face is lack of motivation. Our members are often depressed, and I remember a time when I was depressed. You simply don't care about anything then. How do you motivate someone who has no motivation or energy? This is a topic I want to explore and find a solution to.

When it comes to the price of the domain. They were two different domains. QuitGamble.com was a free domain. QuitGambling.com was already taken and the domain shark wanted 15K for it. I didn't want to pay that price (insanity) so I found QuitGamble, which I actually like better. For free.

Thank you for the spam tips. I had no idea. I'll try in this post to answer multiple comments in one.

Thanks for the Welcome We have a mobile app for Android and iOS. Best way to find it is to search for "how to stop gambling" and you find it Google Play. You can do nearly everything you can do on desktop in the mobile app.


Interesting feedback, can you give any examples of "get the best offers from gambling"? I'm not sure I understand what you mean.


I see the platform as a self-help tool for problem gamblers. We will offer some consulting or coaching in the future, but I want to create things that we can scale at low cost rather than things where I need to participate in. (I can't scale myself).

"Therapist of Gamblers" That would be an honor. I wish I could switch my username then. Perhaps I should create a new user.

The short answer is that we didn't follow any official guide related to problem gambling, because there is simply none. All of them are influenced or affected by the gambling industry. Look at the major organisations like the national counsel on problem gambling and Gamcare. Both organisations promote responsible gambling. The same goes for the research. Since I saw many suffering, I wanted to create something different.

Thank you for your encouraging words

I was lucky, I only paid €15 for it
The guy who owned QuitGambling .com wanted €15K for it... He didn't get it...

Thanks for the feedback. Some guides we have an audible version of. Can you give some examples of audibles you'd like to have? It would be very interesting. thanks again!

Thanks for the feedback! It is good with thing we can improve. The About page is linked in the menu, and there is a section on the start page about the project with a link to the About Us page. Any suggestion on how to make it more visible? 

Here is some more information about the project. https://quitgamble.com/about-us

I wanted to do something else. The affiliate business didn't make me happy. Then, a friend suggested that I should help people instead, and something sparked in me. It was a challenge, and I quickly realized there was so much more to addiction than I had thought before.

We chose the domain because the platform and website focus on helping people who want to stop gambling. We don't condemn gambling, it's up to each individual if they want to gamble or not. (It was an added bonus that QuitGamble.com was available.

Thanks for the kind words! It's fantastic what words can mean sometimes.

Thank you! I appreciate your kind words. Let me know if we can do anything for you guys at Stake. We have some collaborations with companies like Kindred and LL Europe where they recommend us to customers via their responsible gambling pages.

We have many happy members on the platform. The most common comment is that they don't feel alone anymore. Other comments on the benefit of putting addiction in a new light. For instance how QuitGamble focuses on the underlying causes of the addiction (what gambling is doing for the person, rather than just trying to stay away from gambling.) I hope to get many more comments and testimonials in the future.

Thanks for the feedback! The platform is based on escape theory. We believe gambling is doing something for the person, that's why it's so hard to stop (if you want to stop). For instance. Many gamble when they feel bored or lonely, because gambling is exceptionally good at distracting you. When you gamble, you don't feel lonely anymore. It's the escape that is addictive, not the gamble by itself.

On the members pages, we have developed video courses. In the video courses, we use CBT to help people overcome the different areas in their life that cause them pain. For instance, we have courses in handling loneliness, boredom, stress, lack of meaning, and worries about health.

We don't try to compete with Gamblers Anonymous or psychologists, instead, we offer an alternative. Something that is available 24/7 worldwide. Currently, we have members in 110+ countries.

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In general, the website has useful information but certainly requires more tests, questionnaires, and content.
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Thanks for the comment. On the members pages, the courses, most videos, and the community are available. The Happiness Test is available without signing up though.