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I heard that any addiction can cause the brain to release chemicals like dopamine and endorphins, so can going cold turkey cause mild withdrawals like strange dreams, insomnia, restlessness.. etc
Yep, all that is possible. It is easy to trick the brain though and replace a harmful addiction with a non harmful one. One example is when I quit smoking cigarettes I replaced them with eating sunflower seeds. You could replace other addictions with even activities like running.
A new habit can be started within 30 days. Instead of gambling could play Russian roulette, just as exciting and you'll only loss once. ;)
Good luck!
When a full-blown compulsive gambling addiction is present, it#39;s pretty obvious. Outsiders can see that there#39;s a preoccupation with the ...
ADDICTION TO INTERNET GAMBLING
Online games such as poker, backgammon, reversi, pool and mahjong among others offer to earn big quantities of money just playing by your computer, but you must be careful since not everything that glitters is gold.
A lot of people have become addicted to different online games on the belief that they can win interesting money online. The true behind these games that promise good sums of dollars for winners is that they may obtain important and private information from players through their credit cards.
Online poker for example has become the most popular gambling games on the web. There are many websites that offer to play games for free and let you win at the beginning stages. They try to convince you of how easy it is to win because this is a game of skills in which money may be done according to those ones.
However, there is a big problem: you almost never win because you are not playing to win; you are playing to lose your money slowly in the long-run and without being aware of this situation.
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