I have tried that way and ended up in hospital with severe chest pains .. couldn't breathe right and hence they kept me for two days cuz it was effecting my heart...my gut was in a knot and couldn't digest any food...my body was shutting down....went back to my .5 x 3 times a day and within a few days everything went away....so let me ask u ...do they have u micro tapering??? That is the smartest ways I have heard and am slowly doing my mid day dose that way...like a 1/4 of pill every 50 days....but I am feeling hard effects already do ti dr taking me off 25 immediately in one day...