Book contents
- Breaking Free
- Breaking Free How To Stop Gambling
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 How Do I Know if I Have a Gambling Disorder?
- 3 ‘I Should Quit but I Don’t Want To’: Increasing Motivation
- 4 ‘Buying Time’: Limiting Access to Money and Gambling
- 5 How Gambling Hijacks Your Brain
- 6 Retraining the Brain: Rewarding Yourself
- 7 Coping with Cravings and Urges
- 8 ‘Catching’ and Limiting Triggers Early
- 9 Things to Do When You Don’t Gamble
- 10 The Thinking Traps Driving Gambling
- 11 Challenging Gambling Thinking and Beliefs
- 12 How to Get Back on Track after a Slip
- 13 Don’t ‘Switch On’ the Auto-pilot: Future Planning
- 14 How Important Others Can Help
- 15 Final Remarks
- Appendix When to Consider Medication for a Gambling Disorder
- References
- Index
13 - Don’t ‘Switch On’ the Auto-pilot: Future Planning
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 June 2022
- Breaking Free
- Breaking Free How To Stop Gambling
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 How Do I Know if I Have a Gambling Disorder?
- 3 ‘I Should Quit but I Don’t Want To’: Increasing Motivation
- 4 ‘Buying Time’: Limiting Access to Money and Gambling
- 5 How Gambling Hijacks Your Brain
- 6 Retraining the Brain: Rewarding Yourself
- 7 Coping with Cravings and Urges
- 8 ‘Catching’ and Limiting Triggers Early
- 9 Things to Do When You Don’t Gamble
- 10 The Thinking Traps Driving Gambling
- 11 Challenging Gambling Thinking and Beliefs
- 12 How to Get Back on Track after a Slip
- 13 Don’t ‘Switch On’ the Auto-pilot: Future Planning
- 14 How Important Others Can Help
- 15 Final Remarks
- Appendix When to Consider Medication for a Gambling Disorder
- References
- Index
Summary
At this stage, you will have done quite a lot of work and may have already made plenty of changes. Perhaps things are more manageable and perhaps you have achieved a solid period of not gambling. It would be easy to think that the job is done, but that would be a mistake. Research into how recovery progresses shows that good starts are often undone by complacency and bad luck. Complacency is falling back into bad habits, even if these are not directly gambling related. Bad luck is about events that happen that we were not expecting. The problem with bad luck is it happens to everyone, all the time. Bad luck is just another name for life.
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- Breaking FreeHow To Stop Gambling, pp. 123 - 129Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022