Suggestions to help someone stop gambling?

Since he or she is into gambling, why not play their game for a while. Make him a deal or bet that he cannot refuse. Give him what he/she likes but in return he would stop gambling for a certain amount of time. If he/she breaks it, he/she must give something in return. Then do it in increasing time intervals. That way, if he is serious with your deal, he will try to honor it and in return thinks of ways to let him/her think of gambling. And in time I hope, he/she will eventually loose the urge to gamble... :D

Gambling is one of many kind of bad habit which we can easily find in our society. There's also many kind of gambling we can see out there. According to my friend's experience about how to control or totally heal from a bad habit, the most efficient way you can try is give the victim a new living environment. Especially if we talk about gambling, we can say if gambling can't be done by only one person alone, it need at least two persons depend on what kind of gambling they gamble. So that mean if that person still live in a bad society which he/she usually gambling with his/her friends, that's mean it's hard to help that person to release that bad habit. But by trying to live in a new environment, with new friends and of course in a better environmental neighboor, it could help that person gradually. And remember to have a positive activities as daily routines such as fitness, sports, aerobics dance, etc which can give that person more energy to be active positively. Good luck for you. Have a nice day and happy mylotting.

Yes, it's really hard to be taken out of being addicted to gambling. Can say that because I also have a friend who's into that kind of addiction. What did do is that, i urged him to go with other activities like basketball, mountain climbing, anything that goes beyond gambling.... eventually, it worked coupled with some inspiring moral support. Hope this one gives you another insight as well.

I guess the problem lies really on the person itself. He/she can stop gambling if he/she wants to. Gambling is not addicted itself, it's rather the urge of the person to gamble. Nobody can stop that even the best psychological advice from the best Psychologist in the world except YOU! I want to share to you my funny experienced when I was a child, My father used to play Mahjong with his friends that even on special occasions he was not present in the house but always on Friend's house playing mahjong. My mother got angry all the time and they kept on quarreling. One day, my mother was full already of nagging my father all the time, what she did was boiled the whole mahjong set into the water and let my father drank it. (lol) After that incident, my father stop on playing mahjong.

Gambling is a pretty hard habit to break. As far as I know, you can create a new habit if you do it daily after 21 days. You can advice your close friend to replace the "gambling" habit with a new one by creating a new habit that can substitute to it. The notion of earning money easily is a very seductive thing but I'm sure your friend can think of a new habit that has the same intensity as "gambling".