So what's your secret of a successful reboot?

Promise yourself to never click on a porn site ever again mate. Works for me as I see myself as a man of my word.
I see it this way: if you keep yourself to your end of the bargain > PIED will go away as a reward.

At least I hope. 28 days in, 19 yo. Lets go

 

I'm 25, been haphazardly in nofap since I was 16, with years long breaks. I've always known it existed, but this is my longest streak.

What got me here is realizing two things: what ultimately makes us relapse, and the importance of having a strong conviction to resist the urges.

What ultimately makes us relapse? It's almost always a thought that snowballs. Rarely is there a single trigger that gets you from not aroused at all to relapse. So, after you relapse, analyze when, why, how, etc. you started to fantasize. What was the first thought? Why did you start thinking the first thought? The first fantasy is important, because if you had stopped it there, what followed wouldn't have occurred. You might have gotten another impulsive fantasy later in the day, but it probably wouldn't have been a direct consequence of that first fantasy.

But SOMETIMES, the strength of the urge means red alert. You'll need to buckle down, hit the table, and say NEVER AGAIN to yourself. Remember the reasons you're doing this; more confidence, better relationships with women, better career, better grades in school. Whatever it is; the benefits are insane, and you know it.

The thing is, your willpower is finite. If you're constantly being tricked into snowballing easy-to-stop fantasies, you're not going to last very long. If you take care to only spend willpower on the VERY strong urges, you will make it.

Sometimes, especially at the beginning, you will need to be vigilant, because your brain will think of fantasies on its own. You can't help that, but you can decide to start doing something else. I'd say at the first few days, you need to employ tactics used by drug addicts: set new routines, go outside, etc. Your brain is in a poor state for the first week.

I wish you the best of luck mate.