Microtapering can make things smoother, with cut-and-hold you hit a peak where symptoms increase. With a microtaper you are making very small, gradual, reductions. I started a daily microtaper using a scale to weigh on, a metal nail file to file the pills with, and a box with 36 small compartments to set up the pills in. I find it is working better, I would be peaking right now if I still cut pills. Symptoms are less intense, but I also was having less intense symptoms even before, because I am experimenting with NAD+. Hard to tell which is helping, I personally think both. I'm tapering off of Valium/diazepam, if you don't get responses here, try asking on the clonazepam tapering thread. If you need help, Bob7 tapered off clonazepam, and has helped others with microtapers. He showed me how I could figure out the math with the diazepam.
One thing I do know; when doses get really low, it gets harder. So many turn to microtapering to get off the remainder. Others microtaper all the way. Bob7 created capsules where he weighed and filled them with a mix of pulverized pills and a filler. I guess he found this more precise than filing. Diazepam works well for filing them down by tiny increments. because you can get 2 mg. pills. Clonazepam may be a little trickier, Bob7's method probably makes it easier.
I never thought I'd be operating a compounding pharmacy in my kitchen, but here I am.
