Help with addiction: how does one "quit" chipping? (1 Viewer)

[Jeevansluck]

I personally don't think I can quit. While not impossible, I just have loved poker since I was 24. I'm 41 today. I am completely enamored with chips. Singles. Samples.

I have a thirst for casino history. I'm hooked on PCF. I've recently rehabbed myself off eBay, but I'm a fiend waiting to relapse.

I've tried quitting the buying. Had a successful "ban" campaign, but it didn't last..

Presently, I've gone 3 weeks without a chip related purchase. But I just missed trying to buy an Oak Tree sample set a couple hours ago. So I'm a total degenerate, I need therapy. But what therapy is there...???? Only self control...which obviously, I have none of.

I suppose the only thing to get me out would be a serious stint of joblessness.

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

If you use your chips and not only collect them, just enjoy what you have. And stick with what you really need. Ex : one cash set and one tourney set.

 

[PlaidDragon]

Every set I get is the "last one".... until the next one.

 

[FDLmold]

Maybe it's time to switch to collecting singles?

I've purposely limited my singles. They are still worth many times more than my sets! Don't do it!

 

[Jeevansluck]

Every set I get is the "last one".... until the next one.

I've been living in this exact prison of the mind for a whole year...

 

[JustDogbert]

I think this question will yield better results when asked of a mental health professional.

As way of analogy, don't ask a bartender, or the drunk on the stool next to you, how to stop drinking.

Good luck

 

[rjdev7]

I think this question will yield better results when asked of a mental health professional.

As way of analogy, don't ask a bartender, or the drunk on the stool next to you, how to stop drinking.

Good luck

This is a fair point. Haha

 

[Poker Zombie]

I think @detroitdad is the real answer. He doesn't "collect" as much as he buys and releases. That way he gets the best of both worlds: Still buying new and interesting sets, yet not having more chips than one could use.

His method is much cheaper than the buy-hold-buy some more method.

 

[hdgeno]

I had basically gotten out of the hobby 4 years ago, didn't visit the chip forums much after CT died even though I made an account here. I had gotten married in the summer and when winter hit I logged on to sell some chips that were not getting used. Sold almost everything and thought I was in the clear, well I wasn't.

There have been a lot of chips that have come and gone since then, sometimes I wish I could just stop, but I just can't seem to. I've only got a few chips I want now to finish up two projects, maybe then I'll be good. Yeah right, the cash set could use an upgrade...or maybe even a whole new cash set. This hobby sucks lol!

 

[tabletalker7]

The only way to stop chipping is to find a new hobby or pastime to spend your money on .............. might I suggest crack?

 

[Eriks]

You don’t. Cut down on something else

 

[Pinball]

Simple rule for me: Buy only when you have sold something before.

oh, well sometimes there are some exceptions....