Dr. Michael Breus

If you don't like being on a sleeping pill, you should also tell your doctor.

You should say, you know what?

I've been taking this sleeping pill for an extended period of time, and I'm not as comfortable as I once was on it.

I'd like a taper schedule.

I'd like to learn how to taper off.

Nobody should go cold turkey off of a sleeping pill because here's what happens.

This is with every single sleeping pill on the market.

You go cold turkey.

You end up having a rebound insomnia for two to three days.

You are completely freaked out, and then you end up taking pills again, and then you never come off them because you had such a bad experience.

If you do a slow taper managed by your doctor, by your prescribing doctor, you will come off of them, and you'll be just fine.

Let me tell you a story about a guy that I treated.

This is going to blow your mind.

So it's a famous entrepreneurial coach.

It's a good friend of mine came to me.

He allowed me to use his name.

His name is Dan Sullivan.

If you know who Dan Sullivan is, he owns a company called Strategic Coach.

Yeah.

Dan comes to me.