Stop Sleeping Pills Guide Stopping Guidance • Use CBTi to help you manage insomnia. • Develop your dose reduction (taper) plan with your doctor and pharmacist. Check-in with them often. • Aim to reduce your dose on the same day of the week every 1 or 2 weeks. *Each stopping plan should be personalized to suit your needs. Develop your plan using the Stop Sleeping Pills Planner • You can reduce your dose the same amount each time until stopped. Or, you can slow things down, especially near the end, by making smaller dose reductions, lengthening the interval between dose reductions, or both. • Your plan should be ﬂexible. Make adjustments based on how you are feeling How long have you been taking this sleeping pill and others like it to help you sleep? Have you tried to stop this medication or others like it in the past? What problems did you experience? What else are you using for sleep (e.g., alcohol, cannabis, herbals, others)? Sleeping pill name YOU HAVE USED SLEEPING PILLS FOR You should reduce the dose slowly 2 weeks No taper required. Increase your sleep drive – rise 15-30 minutes earlier than usual the morning after your last dose. 3-4 weeks Reduce your dose by half for 2-5 days before stopping it. Increase your sleep drive – rise 15-30 minutes earlier than usual the morning after your last dose. 2-3 months Reduce your dose by half for 1-2 weeks. Optional: then ¼ dose for 1 week. Increase your sleep drive – rise 15-30 minutes earlier than usual the morning after your last dose. 4-24 months Plan to gradually reduce your dose over 6 - 12 weeks. Use CBTi to treat insomnia. Over 2 years Plan to gradually reduce your dose over 6-52 weeks. Use CBTi to treat insomnia. Your stopping plan can be brief © 2019 D. Gardner, A. Murphy

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Stop Sleeping Pills Guide

Stopping Guidance

• Use CBTi to help you manage insomnia.

• Develop your dose reduction (taper) plan with your doctor and pharmacist. Check-in with them often.

• Aim to reduce your dose on the same day of the week every 1 or 2 weeks.

*Each stopping plan should be personalized to suit your needs. Develop your plan using the Stop Sleeping Pills Planner

• You can reduce your dose the same amount each time until stopped. Or, you can slow things down, especially near the end, by making smaller dose reductions, lengthening the interval between dose reductions, or both.

• Your plan should be flexible. Make adjustments based on how you are feeling

How long have you been taking this sleeping pill and others like it to help you sleep?

Have you tried to stop this medication or others like it in the past?

What problems did you experience?

What else are you using for sleep (e.g., alcohol, cannabis, herbals, others)?

Sleeping pill name

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You should reduce the dose slowly

2 weeks No taper required. Increase your sleep drive – rise 15-30 minutes earlier than usual the morning after your last dose.

3-4 weeksReduce your dose by half for 2-5 days before stopping it. Increase your sleep drive – rise 15-30 minutes earlier than usual the morning after your last dose.

2-3 months Reduce your dose by half for 1-2 weeks. Optional: then ¼ dose for 1 week. Increase your sleep drive – rise 15-30 minutes earlier than usual the morning after your last dose.

4-24 months Plan to gradually reduce your dose over 6 - 12 weeks. Use CBTi to treat insomnia.

Over 2 years Plan to gradually reduce your dose over 6-52 weeks. Use CBTi to treat insomnia.

Your stopping

plan can be brief

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On your planner, write in the week number, date, daily dose of the sleeping pill and/or the number of tablets per day. At the end of the week add a comment about how the week went.

WEEK DATE DOSE (mg/day)

DOSE (tablets/day) END OF WEEK COMMENTS

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Stop Sleeping Pills Planner

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