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when ever you get close to the 2 month mark try tying up your time with activities that will keep you away. Talk about it and give the urge a voice. Let your mate understand how important it is to stay away from the casino. Remember the aftermath and bring it to the front of your thoughts and let yourself feel the regrets. I am using a buzz word every time the littlest thought enters my brain that has the slightest thing to do with gambling. I am finding it helpful and sometimes just yell it out as loud as I can. FRENZY over and over again. There are some good hypnosis sites on line too that you can try to help stop gambling . I have done them a few times and it may be helping me. I have been a cg for over 15 years. 5 of those years were very heavy. I have also gone for almost a year when I didn’t gamble. Then with a false sense of control I started up again and would go once a month to once a week.
I find my urges hit hard after 1 month and i am prepared to work around that time and rely on my hubby heavily then. I have finally realized I have the addiction and can’t be in a casino ever again or I will not be able to control what happens. I am going to go to a family doc for extra hypnosis appointments as well. He helped me to quit smoking using those tecniques so I am willing to try it again to quit gambling. Hope this helps and get rid of access to cash that reduces urges for sure. I am not able to access cash in a casino at all now. FGwell done 2 weeks in. There is a number of us clean about the same time. We are getting somewhere now so keep it up and I will too. Don’t let the bookies win your money just enjoy your team win the game if its to hard to do that you may have to consider another form of entertainment. It can catch you off guard when your caught up in the FRENZY of it.
Look for what triggers your urges and fend them off right from the first thought ok. Try finding a suitable word that reminds you of the destruction gambling has on us and repeat it over and over again. Scream it out loud and it will help Believe me its working for me. When I think of the word Frenzy it takes me back to the lack of control that takes place once I am in a casino and it makes me realize what gambling has done to ruin my great life. Fg2 weeks for me Friday. We are in this together and I too am exhausted . Not emotionally just physically. Looking forward to a much needed relaxing weekend . Stay strong and stay focused ok FG . 2 weeks hurray!!
so glad to see you have posted. I and all of us miss you alot and are sending you lots of cyber support. I am so so tired over worked this week. I too have been hard on myself and being self destructive. i had been doing well for a long time but in the past year I had begun gambling more and more. I went into a frenzy the last few times and I finally realized it must stop now or I will ruin everything. So I’m doing everything I can to stop for good. I am just too tired to say much more but hope to stay in touch with you FG
it will be 2 weeks this friday and doing well. Wenesday now and I know I can make it because I believe in me. Believe in YOU, Andy and don’t let anything get in the way of that ok. We are worth fighting for and getting on with normal life is worth the work. Tie up those funds coming your way. Bad habits are hard to break and good habits hard to establish but if we concentrate on the good habits as much as we did on the bad imagine what can be accomplished. Your doing great and can make it. Give yourself a pat on the back and give depression a kick out of your life ok FG
What ever you choose we must accept. I will look forward to hearing from you. I enjoy your wisdom. And we want to support you as you have always supported usFG
what is making you feel down, turn it around and feel up ok. you have not gambled that in itself should make it reason enough to feel up. Remember the frenzy from gambling. don’t let go of the memories that can disappear to quickly an end up leading us to gamble again.FG
you can do this Andy. Remember the lowest point and let that me the thing that reminds you not to go. I have given myself a buzz word to repeat as many times needed when my thoughts go to gambling possibilities. FRENZY that is what happens once I start loosing money and because we are cg’s it will happen. I will repeat it a thousand times and shout it out over and over again if I have too. Don’t get your hands on the money that provides for you ok FG
sounds like your still in control. That’s great but remember thoughts to gamble are only a brain wave away and you must be ready for it. thwart the thoughts before it crushes you and the efforts your making to stay gamble free. lock down your ability to fund and gambling opportunities ok FG
way to go and you are right your husband could leave if changes aren’t made. Remember one thing that the best changes come after we realize the damage caused from a gambling session. So do everything possible to tie up your funds and get yourself to a meeting ok Success is up to us. Congrats on day 6 FG