Start in iMessageGambling Addiction Quiz
A 10-question self-assessment based on DSM-5 criteria. Understand your risk level and get personalized recommendations for next steps.
Free Gambling Recovery Tools
A practical recovery toolkit for assessing risk, slowing urges, protecting money, and adding barriers before the next bet. Interactive tools are being released gradually after review.
Gambling Loss Calculator
See the true financial impact of gambling. Enter your habits and discover how much you could save by quitting today.
Urge Surfing Timer
A guided mindfulness timer to help you ride out gambling urges. Choose 3, 5, or 10 minutes of breathing exercises and coping prompts.
Gambling-Free Day Counter
Track your progress and celebrate milestones. Set your quit date, see your streak, and estimate how much money you have saved.
Use this toolSelf-Exclusion Finder
Find gambling self-exclusion programs in your state. Get direct links to enrollment and learn how to ban yourself from casinos and betting sites.
Use the toolkit today
These steps are designed to work before the interactive detail pages are published. Start with the section that matches the risk in front of you right now.
Self-assessment
Write down the last three times gambling caused harm: money lost, time spent, secrecy, arguments, missed bills, or failed attempts to stop. If several apply, treat the next step as support, not self-blame.
Loss awareness
List deposits, cash withdrawals, loans, and credit card balances in one place. Seeing the whole picture makes it easier to protect rent, food, debt payments, and essential bills.
Urge support
When an urge spikes, set a short timer, move away from the device, slow your breathing, and contact one person or helpline before making any financial decision.
Blocking access
Use device restrictions, browser blocks, account closures, and payment friction together. No single barrier is perfect, but layered friction gives urges less room to move.
Self-exclusion
Check which self-exclusion programs may apply where you live or gamble. Coverage varies, so confirm the rules with the official program before relying on it.
Progress tracking
Track gambling-free days, money protected, meetings attended, and urges passed. Small records help you notice progress during weeks that still feel difficult.
When to get outside support
If gambling has affected housing, debt, relationships, work, or safety, use tools as support while also contacting a qualified counselor, credit counselor, support group, or the National Problem Gambling Helpline.
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