No PMO for over 3 years - success story and some tips

I joined this forum 4 and a half years ago and wasn't really active here, but since it gave me motivation and information needed to go on with Nofap, so I thought I'll come back and share my success story.
Disclaimer: I started my journey as an atheist and later on converted to Catholicism (which makes my nickname and profile picture ironic, but I can't be bothered to change it), but my tips are going to be fully secular, so they may be useful no matter your belives or lack thereof.

My story
I started watching porn and masturbating when I was 13-14. From the get go I knew that it's not a good idea to PMO every day, so I decided to do it 2-3 times a week. When I was 16, I tried MO without porn and I found out that I wasn't able. Did some research and found out about PIED, which opened my eyes to the damage of porn. I was an atheist back then, so my first goal was just to heal PIED, drop porn and continue MO. First 3 months were easy, probably because I had a set goal and had the end in sight. However when I came back, I found out, that I'm not able to MO without P. Not physically, just due to my lack of strong will. So I've decided to do something I never thought I would: drop PMO completly untill I find a partner to have normal sex with. This was much harder, since it wasn't a break that I can wait out - I knew that there is no end to the fight, which made me relapse. It wasn't a lot, but each time I felt really guilty. I remember all of them: February 2017 (the last one before conversion), August 2017 (this hit me hard, because it was a day after big holiday in Catholicism) and March 2018 (the last one before my baptism and the to date). Since then, I've been able to come by without PMO and I think I can say that I'm free, at this point I don't even consider PM as something a normal person does.

Tips
1. Don't keep track of your days.
I know that it's a popular thing on this site but trust me, you should stop doing it. When you say "I haven't PMO for X number of days!" what you're actually saying to yourself is that you are a person who would normally do it, but you're actively keeping yourself from doing it. This is a very bad mindset. You need to think of yourself as a person who has nothing to do with it. You can't do it while counting days.
2. Don't think it'll always be this hard.
When you beging Nofap, you get huge urges and you are used to falling into temptation. It's easy to fail if you imagine yourself fighting the same battle for the rest of your life. Trust me, it gets better. Do I get urges? Yes, but it's not as bad as it used to be and I learnt to live with them. It's just something that happens to me that you have to suffer through, like a mild headache. You also won't be used to PMOing, so you'll stop defaulting to it after some time.
3. Never, ever try to talk with the urge.
Seriously. Before my every relapse I had a conversation with myself, trying to convince myself not to PMO. You will fail. Cut the talk and go for a walk. Preferably with another person.
4. Pick the battlefield.
OK, so this may sound religious, but it's going to be useful for atheists too, trust me. You may be familiar with that time in the Bible when Jesus says that you commit adultery by just looking lustfully after a woman? This is hard, but it is really good advice to take. I get sexual thought, a lot. But every time I think about something different and the battle is won before I even get an urge to PMO. Because my first urge is to think about sex and I never let that happen, I don't even get to the point of considering PMO at any level. I think this is the major reason for my success.
5. Cut conversations about porn.
All resources about porn, such as this forum and all YT videos are useful at the begining and after the relapse, but you gotta drop them after first steps. If you won't, you'll just keep thinking about porn. True, you'll keep thinking how bad it is, but it's still thinking about it. You allow it to live in your head rent free and it's not helpful.