Depends on the medication honestly. Some meds have godawful withdrawals and need to be tapered off veeeeeery slowly. Other meds can be tapered off fairly quickly.

I think you should ask your pdoc what he or she thinks is best for you. It's a very individual thing and depends on the type of med (as I said above).

But for what it's worth, I have done the alternating thing and I have done the consistently for 2 weeks thing. I did that with Lexapro and both methods didn't work because the withdrawal was too much for me to handle... but I did it all under the supervision of my pdoc since he's far more knowledgeable about these things than I am.