How to "conquer" Masturbation

I was reading the issues of An-Nahar (the right-wing, sectarian Christian, anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people), chauvinist Lebanese newspaper) during the 1958 civil war. I came across a medical advice column. This man wrote to them that he could not stop crying due to his practice of masturbation. The An-Nahar doctor offered this advice to cure him: "1. Join an athletic club, and practice some kinds of sports. 2. Integrate yourself in social life, and it is preferable that you mix in innocently with the other sex, and that is by joining one of the mixed club. 3. Avoid the vulgar books that stimulate instincts, and read beneficial books that expand your circle of knowledge. 4. Don't go to bed unless you really feel a desire to sleep. 5. Get out of bed as soon as you wake up." (An-Nahar, 24th May, 1958, p. 6). Damn, I wish I knew about this before Thomas Laqueur published his Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation.