John Robbins

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3,052 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 19 Jun

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On The Mend · The Night John Robins Knew He Had to Quit Drinking · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

And it applies to other stuff as well.

You know, if I want to get fitter or if I want to... You know, any goal I have, I actually know what I need to do.

Yeah.

But I'm...

Desperate not to do it.

Because it's hard.

It was very sudden, very intense.

And once I got to a gambling 12-step meeting, that helped a great deal.

Because I think what was so hard about that was how secret it was.

And just finding out there were other people who'd had similar problems was...

sort of a revelation.

However, it just didn't have its teeth into me.

Weirdly, even though it was an addiction, it had yet to become a habit.

So it was just something I suddenly found that helped me switch my brain off.

And because it was so catastrophic financially, it was a very black and white situation in that

I had no more money to lose because I lost all my money.

So it's like, I'm going to die.

I'm going to kill myself if this continues because I feel so awful.

Whereas I think alcohol has much more nuanced ways of telling you it's not a problem.

Everyone's doing it.

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