You can’t tell yourself that you’re strong enough to stay away from gambling and expect that it will do anything other than reinforce your feelings of worthlessness, remorse, guilt and shame when you go right back to gambling. Same principle applies with the gambling addict. Tell a starving man that willpower will make the hunger go away and see how good that does. For a problem or compulsive gambler, willpower may only last until the next urge pops into their mind - and won’t leave.
By buying into them, you’re only defeating your ultimate goal – to quit gambling. Some popular assumptions about gambling are merely traps.
