Final dose (taken once) before stopping completely.
Taper schedule — Buprenorphine (Suboxone)
8 mg × 1/day → jump-off at 0.25 mg over 14 days
Generated by quitting7oh.org · 9/17/2026
Schedule curve (total daily)
Schedule table
| Day | Per dose (mg) | Times/day | Total daily (mg) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 8 | |
| 2 | 1 | 8 | |
| 3 | 1 | 7 | |
| 4 | 1 | 6 | |
| 5 | 1 | 6 | |
| 6 | 1 | 5 | |
| 7 | 1 | 4 | |
| 8 | 1 | 4 | |
| 9 | 1 | 3 | |
| 10 | 1 | 2 | |
| 11 | 1 | 1.5 | |
| 12 | 1 | 1 | |
| 13 | 1 | 0.5 | |
| 14 | 1 | 0.25 | |
| Total medication | 56.25 mg | ||
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Established short-taper schedules from the Suboxone Rapid Taper page are used when the start dose and duration match (2, 4, 6, or 8 mg with 5/7/10/14/21-day options). For other start doses or durations, the calculator generates a daily percentage taper. Setting a jump-off below 0.25 mg extends the tail with volumetric sub-0.25 mg doses.
Reference, not advice. Buprenorphine is a prescribed medication; tapering it is a conversation with your prescriber, not a unilateral decision. The schedule below is a starting point for that conversation. The community side — what tapering actually feels like, what helps, when to slow down — lives in the Discord and r/quitting7oh.
How this calculator handles buprenorphine
When your start dose matches one of the published 5 / 7 / 10 / 14 / 21-day columns from the Suboxone Rapid Taper page (2, 4, 6, or 8 mg start), the calculator returns the established schedule exactly. For other start doses or durations, it generates a daily percentage taper from your starting total to your jump-off.
Setting a jump-off below 0.25 mg extends the tail with volumetric sub-0.25 mg doses (0.1, 0.05, 0.02 mg) using the same math as Custom Suboxone Dosing — useful when a standard short taper isn’t slow enough at the bottom.
Where bupe tapers tend to go sideways
- The bottom matters more than the top. Drops from 2 mg → 1 mg → 0.5 mg are where people get hit. Going slower in this range is usually the right call.
- Anhedonia and PAWS often peak after the taper ends, not during it. See Depression and Anhedonia and What is PAWS?.
- Long-acting injectables (Sublocade, Brixadi) have their own discontinuation pattern that this calculator doesn’t model. See Sublocade & Brixadi.
- Bupe tapers off a kratom-synthetic baseline can behave differently from bupe tapers after classical opioids. The community discussion of that lives at Why Suboxone Might Not Be Working.
See also
- Other taper calculators on this site
- Telehealth Providers for Suboxone — comparison of providers who will work with kratom and 7-OH cases
- Long-Term Suboxone Risks — what you’re tapering off of, in context