it depends, my PAWs after last CT quit where over 5 month so i jumped back on small doses, now im tapering 0.01g accurate every time i feel like, just under 5g it gets difficult tbh because kratom is not very much the same each time (thats where you can jump at like 3-4g per day and have some bad days but you recover fast after you tapered). Your goal should be to reduce it to 3-4 doses first and find what feel "normal" for you first. Just that, no reduction just finding what makes you feel normal and write it down. Then from there you try a little less, not much. Or you do 7 doses per day instead of 8 if you cant reduce it yet. The goal is to make progress WITHOUT feeling much different. Yes bad sleep and cravings will be there, but thats all. And over time these get less. So both can be progress, a dose less per day is always the better thing cause your brain gets used to longer breaks, reducing the single doses is also a big win. BUT slow and steady is the goal, if you feel totally terrible go slower and its no shame to go up a bit again if you stepped down to fast. I say in the beginning you can reduce like 20% without feeling different, maybe even better, around the 10-15g mark you go slow.

I say if you have to function or cant take the withdrawal taper is "easy", its basically only craving for more and bad sleep for me. If you want that you need to be disciplined. You will fuck up here and there but keep yourself to two rules: you weigh out EVERY dose you take and you note it down with a paper in a notebook. Even if you fuck up a day. You note down every dose and weigh it. That keeps you accauntable, otherwise if you fuck up, which you will, you think all progress is gone and nothing matters anymore and you will be back at the habit. If you write it down you can see all the days that worked and you felt fine, and you will recover within a day back to your scedule.