I have Quit Gambling. Forever... This is it.
 

As of today. I am quitting gambling.

It has become a serious problem for me and my family and my abilty to work. Something that should have been done years ago I am doing now..

I have called all my credit card companies and put a block on all off shores wagering, called my sportsbooks to ban me and close thier accounts, and I am even going to more than likely cancel my trip to Vegas Internext..

This is a serious issue with me, and Im finally going to do something about it.

Starting now.

Ive even left a message for that silly gamblers annonmous program.

Lets see if they can help. Im willing to do it.

I bet you 100 bucks you cant quit

Good luck .I tough you quit a while ago when you lost like 15 grands

:1orglaugh

Well, it's a step in the right direction. Nice.

Actually i know how hard it can be , I used to bet alot on sports


Also back in Senior year of high school me and two other guys were bookies and were making some serious coin with all the gamblers in the school

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Hey yo, pay up...


Or I'm a have to get my cousin Vinny to punch you in the balls yo.

This was like 10 yrs ago and shit. Back in the beeper days, it was beeping left and right. We made some great loot even with 3 of us. Amazing we didnt get nailed

Sounds fun. Damn laws.

Well done, gambling is addictive.

We bought our new house from a guy who had to sell it to pay off his gambling debts. It's a beautiful house, 4 bedrooms, detatched 300 sq mts in 800 sq mts of land. He had to sell it and is now living in a rented one room apartment.

If that does not tell you to quit nothing will.

Boneprone, takes balls to walk up and admit:thumbsup Much respect bro.

But come on, don't cancel Vegas for that. Hey I don't gamble at all so come to vegas and we can go do all kinds of fun shit like go karts and i heard you can race dragsters with a weekend course.

Fuck let's get the non gamblers and during day do bunch of cool stuff and at night, Parties and Strip Clubs.

Heard you ski. It me up on ICQ i want to talk to you about a ski trip 124588247

Good Luck bro.

Ive been there a couple of times. You start chasing what you lost and all hell breaks loose.

gambling is for people with nothing to lose

You are doing the right thing:thumbsup

but looks like you lost a big amount over that Blazer's game!?

i will give you 10 to 1 odds that you can't stop:Graucho

gambling is only fun if you have something to lose...

ist the asian syndrome

I used to gamble pretty often but mainly on football, but then again I used to be a bookie part time in Dallas so I wasn't always betting my money.

:1orglaugh

Every year Boney has has said this... and every year he flies in to Vegas early to make sure he gets the chair he wants at the blackjack tables. lmao

It certainly is addictive, yep. I got into it during the baseball season a little too much. When you start hanging on every play during a Brewers/Devil Rays game you know something is up.

i hope you can stop this Bone, ive heard too many stories of ppl who lost everything with that

Best of luck to ya, Boneprone. Be strong, man! You can beat it.

boneprone, if you are serious you can stop. Best wishes :)

good choice boneprone.

Dont quit gambling until you've won back all your money :glugglug

you have to be in it to win it :)

Last I heard he was up and I saw he pulled in 2k on Monday night.

Still good for you Boneprone. With the family and life you have, no worries about getting out of gambling.

:thumbsup

you should have called Cleo up, she would have told you to quit a long time ago...


might have saved you a few bucks....ok, maybe not ;)



but congrats, good step in the right direction....

Stardust just posted. You;re at 10-1 to stop betting. :1orglaugh

gambling is in my blood runs in my family especially the women must be an Asian thing ! When i first moved to vancity bymyself i had nothing to do , no friends, no social life ... I was at the casino SoooOOOO often ..... gambling is evil is all i have to say !!!However, once in a while i play scratch or buy lottery tickets but never again will i have a casino part of my life as my second home .
Well i will play few rounds of black jack or roulette in vegas just for fun though ..... Boneprone hope you stop while you can i feel yah ....:(

best of luck Bone, it's gonna be a real bitch. gambling addictions can be worse than crack.

Ahhh balls just when I thought I might have been able to hit Bone up in Vegas and show me his tricks in the sportsbooks.

Glad to hear you are getting a handle on things man.

DH

Good for you BP!

Even though I promote a gambling site, I hate to see people piss away their life and their life's savings on gambling.

Small time recreational gambling (like Bingo :Graucho ) is OK, but when you get into the big dollars, it's a serious problem.

I have promoted online gambling sites since 1997, but I rarely gamble myself. I hate to lose money.

Hang in there. I've heard that gambling addiction is harder to kick that drug addiction. Don't give in!!!

I take it Portland lost?

Best Tip Ever

why give it up totally ?
just bet small amounts instead
gambling is pretty fun if you can control it
let your wife buy your bets for you each week
instead of 10k you can bet like 100 bucks
its still fun to watch a game even if the bets are low

How much did you drop on the Blazers tonight? If you'd just bet against the Blazers the rest of the season then you'd come out way on top. Did you ever get the money that sportsbook.com was holding from you or did you just end up betting and losing it?

No Boney in Vegas?! Whos going to film the gangbang?? :Oh crap

why would u wanna quit gambling????
u probbly lost a lot of money suckar

What's wrong with just betting a few hundred bucks instead of THOUSANDS of dollars?

You can certainly afford to gamble. You just wager too much. You can still get the thrill without spending as much loot.

It's like quitting cigarettes. You can't really quit cold turkey, but you can start by not buying packs of cigarettes and only smoking when you can bum a cig off of somebody else. Then gradually you can quit.

You are a strong man Boneprone. I know I can't even think about walking past a roulette table without getting a twitch in my eye. I can't stop. Hopefully you can.

That is the worse advice you could ever give to someone who wants to get out.

It's like saying to an alcoholic to only drink occasionnally.

I quit cold turkey. And it was successfull.

I didn't touch at a cigarette for 2 years.

http://whyquit.com/joel/Joel_01_13_g...ithdrawal.html

"Quitting by the gradual withdrawal method. I discuss this method quite extensively in my seminars. I always tell how if there is anyone attending who knows a smoker who they really despise they should actively encourage them to follow the gradual withdrawal "cut down" approach. They should call them up ever day and tell them to just get rid of one cigarette. Meaning, if they usually smoke 40 a day, just smoke 39 on the first day of the attempt to quit. The next day they should be encouraged to smoke only 38 then 37 the next day and so on. Then the seminar participant should call these people every day to congratulate them and encourage them to continue. I must reemphasize, this should only be done to a smoker you really despise.

You see, most smokers will agree to this approach. It sounds so easy to just smoke one less each day. Thirty-nine cigarettes to a two pack a day smoker seems like nothing. The trick is to convince the person that you are only trying to help them. For the first week or two the one downside is you have to pretend to like the person and you have to talk to them every day. They won?t whine too bad either. When they are down to 30 from 40, they may start to complain a little. You really won?t be having fun yet. When the payoff comes is about three weeks into scam. Now you've got them to less than half their normal amount. They are in moderate withdrawal all the time.

A month into the approach you?ve got them into pretty major withdrawal. But be persistent. Call them and tell them how great they are doing and how proud you are of them. When they are in their 35th to 39th day, you have pulled off a major coup. This poor person is in peak withdrawal, suffering miserably and having absolutely nothing to show for it. They are no closer to ending withdrawal than the day you started the process. They are in chronic withdrawal, not treating him or herself to one or two a day, but actually depriving him or herself of 35 to 40 per day.

If you want to go in for the kill, when you got them down to zero, tell them don?t worry if things get tough, just take a puff every once in a while. If you can get them to fall for this, taking one puff every third day, they will remain in withdrawal forever. Did I mention you really should despise this person to do this to them? It is probably the cruelest practical joke that you could ever pull on anyone. You will undercut their chance to quit, make them suffer immeasurably and likely they will at some point throw in the towel, return to smoking, have such fear of quitting because of what they went through cutting down, that they will continue to smoke until it kills them. Like I said, you better really despise this person.

Hopefully there is no one you despise that much to do this to them. I hope nobody despises themselves enough to do this to themselves. Quitting cold turkey may be hard but quitting by this withdrawal technique is virtually impossible. If you have a choice between hard and impossible, go for hard. You will have something to show at the end of a hard process, but nothing but misery at the end of an impossible approach. Quit cold and in 72 hours it eases up. Cut down and it will basically get progressively worse for weeks, months, years if you let it.

I should mention, this is not a new technique. It has been around for decades. Talk to every long-term ex-smoker you know. Try to find one person who successfully used the cut down approach, gradually reducing to eventual zero over weeks or months. You will be hard pressed to find even one person who fits this bill. One other perspective that should help you see the flaw in the approach. Look at people here who had once quit for months or years and then relapsed. One day, after such a long time period, they take a drag and are smoking again. If one puff can do this after years or decades, guess what it will do after days or hours of being smoke free. It puts the smoker back to square one. All that any ex-smoker has to do to avoid relapse or chronic withdrawal is to - NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!"

hehehehe LOL

It appears my air ticket is non-refundable.

It was only 500.00, but after breaking down to my wife today, we both find it best that I dont make Vegas.

We will see.

You guys have no idea how bad it is.

ITs fucking real real bad.

I'll start putting together some numbers on this :1orglaugh

You have a wonderful wife that?s all you need.

Now return my ICQ =)

Boneprone go to Vegas, people will be asking where you are, if your not there. Don't let gambling spoil your fun in Las Vegas dude.

Im getting a lot of icq messages..

Sorry guys, i gotta turn it off.

Ive decided Im taking off tomorrow morning. I need to get a grip on shit and re-group. Im gunna get a room and ski for a few days.. Skiing always relaxes me and helps me clear my mind..

Im pretty fucked up at the moment.

Ill have the laptop to check email and shit, but Im gunna go low here for a bit..

transfer the ticket to someone that needs it...it's better to lose 75 instead of wasting 500

I'm available to take your place :)

What you have to do , is prove it to yourself for a month. Bet all your numbers as if you were actually playing. When you get ahead one month, then start gambling again. :) i bet it will take you awhile. Then if you lose for 3 months in a row go back to step #1. And never overplay yourself. You play yourself out of a whole by betting small not big :)