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Thanks for your support. Yes, I am slowly learning more and more about myself.

Day 1. I am just going to start with writing down some thoughts and ideas about this whole process and if I am successful with quitting gaming for an extended time (god-willing) then I can start formatting it in a more organized way. Another quick introduction on me - I am also a compulsive gambler but I have been gambling free for almost 11 months now. I attempted to quit gaming through these forums, etc about a year ago as well. Trying to quit gambling and gaming at the same time did not work for me most likely because of all the spare time I had. So starting again. I am going to approach this with the same attitude I approached in stopping gambling. I attend a 12 step GA program that has helped tremendously. In that program you take it 1 day at a time. You tell yourself when you get up in the morning I am not going to gamble/ game today and you stick with it. I started listening to the Gaming the System Podcast today. Lots of great information there. I have the luxury at work to wear headphones and am able to listen to the podcast while working. It’s great. I am going to look for more self- help podcasts similar to this one when I’ve gone through listening to all the episodes. I have deleted all the games from my phone I also have deleted YouTube and reddit as they are part of my excessive gaming addiction. Lots of time spent watching strategy videos and streamers which I need to control in order to help prevent any relapse. It has also really helped me to see and talk with a Counsellor. I am fortunate to have free counselling in my area because I was a problem gambler. I have banned myself from the local casinos and that launches counselling sessions if you ask for them. This detoxification came as a result of my last counselling session where I realized I have been wasting a lot of my time during the day with technology - YouTube, Reddit, and the phone in general. I haven’t discussed this with my wife yet but I intend to. Just a note that she doesn’t see my gaming habits as unhealthy at this point. However my experience lately of quitting gambling I have learned a lot about myself and my habits. I was split from my wife for the last year. We have recently gotten back together and are actually living together again. My thought was that gaming caused a lot of neglect on my part and was part of the reason for the split-up. Enough for today. Thanks for reading and have a great 2-4.

Welcome Jami. Good luck with everything in your life. Remember family is very important. Do your new babies right!

Hey Big Adam Nice to read your journaling. I like the formatting and the idea of setting up daily goals and weekly goals. I am sort of new here as of today. Today is day 1 for me. I tried and failed about a year ago due to certain circumstances. Anyway keep trying. I believe we can do this.

Hello everyone, I am not going to use my real name here just my username. I am from BC, Canada. I am a father of 3 (2 adults and 1 teenager) and am married. I am over 45 years old. I made an introduction about a year ago when I first tried to quit gaming. I was also trying to quit gambling at the same time. I am currently about 11 months clean from gambling. Quitting gaming did not work at that time as it was too much to try to remain clean both from gambling and gaming. My gaming did decrease however in the beginning but I have noticed in the last few months it has increased to an unhealthy point again. So I am at the end of day #1 now. I plan on starting a journal on these forums so hopefully you will see that soon. Cheers to all and good luck to all in quitting gaming. Have a good 2-4.

I am also new here. I joined today. I hope this community can help in some way with those urges to turn on the computer and play games

Hi. Just found this site and forum recently. My counsellor sent me an article on gamer addiction and it’s relationship with gambling and this site was on there. I have been an avid gamer my whole life. Mostly playing world of Warcraft. Diablo and most recently Hearthstone. It was never that bad in my opinion but I have pulled all-nighters and lost sleep because of them. On average I would play 4-5 hours a day and if I didn’t work a day it would be all day I would play. I am married (now split) with 3 children. I ignored my family life because of gaming and now as I’ve said I am split from my wife because of gaming. She had enough of it after 24 years. Now I want to change and I want to quit gaming. My gaming led to a worse behaviour as I am also a compulsive gambler. I am getting help from all these things. I have managed to quit WOW but still play the other 2 too much. I am slowly cutting down and hope this site will aid in cutting it out all together. My hope is to reconnect with my wife and family to live together again and make us both happy again. Thanks for reading