How to stop something addictive

At your own risk.


To find out the dose of the next time we multiply the dose of the previous time by a number less than 1.


The number can be 0.9, 0.97, 0.998 etc depending on how quickly we can.


By multiplying by the same number which is less than 1 we get what is called an exponential reduction. Exponential reduction is happening in nature in many natural occurring processes. For example discharging of a capacitor by a resistor, radioactive decay etc.


It has the property of half time.


This means that the time it takes for the dose to become half is always the same.


For example if the half time is 1 month and we start reducing from 1mg...


In one month the dose will be 1/2mg.


On the second month 1/4mg.


On the third month 1/8mg.


And so on...


The half time depends on which less than 1 number we choose.


This can give us excellent resolution, for example, for each day.


The nice thing about the exponential way of reducing a dose is that the first reduction is the greatest of them all.


As time passes by the slope, if one plots dose against time, becomes less and less and eventually almost parallel to the time axis.


This supposedly helps our brain to adjust in perhaps the less hard way.


There are more posts on euroelectron on the same subject describing the same dose reduction process in other words and perhaps a bit more of mathematics.


Will is Key.