Why Gambling addiction?

[casinonearme]

In real life, I have a good friend that is totally addicted to gambling/sportsbet and he has really no intentions to quit gambling even if he lose a lot of money each year (no he is not "rich").

Why some people get addicted and others no?
People get addicted with drugs because it's like math. If you smoke cigarette .... after a while your body will crave for nicotine.

This is a question that I have a lot of time in my mind while following this section/reading history of other players.
Despite I am placing bets since a while I am able to not bets without any doubts for several months.
Sometime "I feel better" if I don't place bets nor I place bets.
I have my opinion about this argument but can't fit with all players / users addicted.

.. What happens with gambling?

Please post here in this topic your (serious) opinion about gambling addiction.
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[slot]

Let me make an analogy with your body craves for nicotine.That is scientifically proved while what I am going to say it is not but I believe to be the case from personal story.I was once addicted to slot machines not that long ago,during 2020 through first months of 2021.I believe that our brain produces endocrine an hormone that makes us feel good during the session that we are playing and because we feel good most of the time during our game play except the end of the session which a mix of emotions guided by sadness changes things a bit we want to be back for more.

I think because our brain tells our body that it want to feel good again it is continuously telling us that we should gamble again to get that feeling again.This comes from my personal experience,I always wanted to play again to feel that good feeling that we have during the initial phase of our session game play.That is otherwise known as addiction.