Why do seemingly small cuts make such a big difference?

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I'm now down to cutting .125 off of K for each jump as I've been advised that towards the end of the taper the cuts become more difficult.  So I cut my pill into 1/4 sized pieces and they're tiny!  Seems hard to believe that that little of a drug could cause such havok on people's lives.

 

Then it occurred to me..the effects of a cut are probably cumulative. It's not .125 off, it's .125 off for each day the drug remains in your system.  So the cumulative effect of a .125 cut spread out over a week could be more than .5 of K in your system at a given time.

 

I wonder if this is why we must be so careful with our tapers to go slow and make small cuts rather than trying to go for it.