Hard mode is the only way out

If you are not following the hard mode, I personally do not think you will recover smoothly. Yes, slips here and there are okay but deliberately watching porn everyday for hours during the challenge, thinking you will only break your streak if you will ejaculate - the same way, masturbating to soft porn/any other sort of porn other than hardcore, thinking you will only relapse if you will watch hardcode porn, this way you won't recover and will even be more prone to relapses than someone who is on hard mode.