How to stop a bloody nose quickly!

It was a cold winter morning with a slight draft of wind seeping its way into my room, when all of a sudden I woke up thinking I had spilled warn water on my pillow, but to my surprise it was blood. I than instantly jolt up and run to the bathroom sink as my nose leaves a trail of blood and quickly try to clot my left nostril to stop the bleeding, it eventually halts, but after a very long time and with a lot of effort to stop it all while plugging my nose and not being able to breathe from it. I thought to myself there must be a simpler way to effectively stop a nose bleed that is quicker than the traditional method. Then I remembered my Clinical Anatomy professor discussing all of the blood vessels in the facial region and how a very high concentration of blood to the nose comes from the vessels of the upper lip. So I tried to restrict access to blocking the flow of blood until I could successfully achieve a clot in my nose.