Tinnitus is an alarm. Your auditory cortex has decided that a tiny, ambiguous signal is important enough to broadcast around the clock. That is biology, not weakness. The alarm is real.
Suffering, though, is the smoke detector wired to the alarm. It is the meaning your nervous system layers on top of the sound: this is dangerous, this will never stop, I cannot cope. That layer is what hurts most, and it is also the part that can change.
The goal of this programme is not silence. Most people who stop suffering from tinnitus still hear it. What changes is the smoke detector — the threat response gets quieter, until the alarm becomes background, like the hum of a fridge.
So when you notice the sound today, try not to fight the alarm. Just check whether the smoke detector needs to be that loud. Often it does not.