He sympathized with me and said, ‘The same thing happened to my own brother and what do you think helped him? His spiritual father gave him a copy of the Gospels with strict orders to read a chapter without a moment’s delay every time he felt a longing for wine coming over him. If the desire continued he was to read a second chapter, and so on. That is what my brother did and at the end of a very short time his drunkenness came to an end.
The Way of a Pilgrim