Is it easy to become addicted to gambling?

It's hard to answer clearly to this question. This kind of addiction is very different from such addiction as smoking or alcoholism. In case of gambling we don't addict to substance but to act. Alternatively, we can speak here about addiction to adrenaline, but it's rather difficult to replace gambling to bungee jumping. One what is sure, is that it is easier to become addicted to smoking than to sport bets. Rather small part of people , who bet for the first time become addicted to gambling, but it's more likely that majority of people who buy their first cigarette pack become smokers.

Where such conclusions from? From experience (not only mine). There are people who bet for all their lives, but who never had problem with it. There are people who play poker for money and from years they keep the rule about loss limit (for example 5%of salary). It's similar with people who like play on machines in pub or who like visit casino, but all what they do, they do with cold blood and keep to their rules.

However, you can't be a little gambling addiction. Often people who think that they are mentally strong fall into this addiction and loss their families. Compared with smoking, gambling addiction is less common, but its financial and social consequence can be more dangerous.