With in the past few months more and more people have tempted their fate with hopes to win big at gambling. It seems as though everyone has jumped on the band wagon to capitalize on those that seek fame and fortune through gambling. Everywhere you go from your local department stores, radio advertisement, television commercials and highway billboards you have now been exposed. This effective advertisement has enticed people to take a chance to win big.

For the novice gambler, playing around a card table for minimal bets is exciting and rewarding. As time goes on these same people advance in their gambling addiction to scratch offs and lottery. These are convenient to buy, there seems to be one vendor per block. Even the local malls have set up booths to sell scratch off tickets and lottery. Its big business nowadays and people want to cash in one way or another. There seems to be just as much coverage on gambling compared to all the other forms of entertainment put together.

Now that people have been exposed and tempted fate they may be one of the unfortunate ones who realized they have a problem and can not stop gambling. What do they do now? Where do they go? Why did this happen to them? And so on. This is the point they begin their search for a solution to their problem. A majority reach the conclusion that if they win back their money everything would be okay. In reality that makes things worse by continuing their self destructive behavior. They begin to realize their gambling addiction is hard to stop. Part of their mind tells them they should gamble, while their other part tells them they should never gamble again. They try to stop themselves on numerous occasions and finally admit that stopping their addiction is very hard to stop.

Once compulsive gamblers reach this stage of realization they usually experience one or more of the following:

I am depressed

I am anxious about everything

My hearts beating fast

I have no self esteem

I want to kill myself

I am so lonely

I want to blow up all the casinos in the world

I want to beat this addiction

I can believe I lost all my money

I am so stupid to let this happen to me

After all the crazy thoughts pass they begin to pull themselves together in hopes they will find a way to stop. They begin to try various programs that offer them some hope that they can beat their addiction. Through time they can find the right formula to finally help them stop their addiction.

Mr. Howard Keith has an extensive background in dealing with compulsive gamblers, relatives and friends of gamblers and teenage gamblers. Mr. Keith believes there are many alternatives to aid in the recovery of a gambling addiction verses a twelve step program. A large percentage of his emails were from compulsive gamblers looking for an alternative to Gamblers Anonymous and twelve step programs. Gamblers Anonymous also helps a significant number of people each year but there is a large percentage that they are unable to reach.

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