You are indeed correct about the protracted withdrawal symptoms, they suck and lasted up to 18 months for me after quitting cold turkey, which I knew then was not the way to do it. But for me, clonzapam was messing up my central nervous system so bad I felt I had to just stop taking it. I have read about people taking much higher doses than me, I had to cringe. At those doses, this med would have put me in a wheelchair. I literally walked around all day with my body buzzing and tremors etc. but my sleep doc. refused to believe it was the clonazepam. My regular doc and a neurolgist I saw (thinking I had something more serious coming on) both said I should have never been given this drug. For those it works for, I'm truly happy for you and hope you can continue or find a workable solution.