As a health-care professional which of the following

Question

As a health-care professional, which of the following instructions will Dr. Knightley give a patient with lupus erythematosus who intends to discontinue long-term therapy with prednisone?

1. He will tell him to gradually reduce the dose of prednisone over a period of a few months.
2. None of these are correct.
3. He will tell him to keep reducing the dose of prednisone every other day until he is no longer dependent on the drug. 
4. He will tell him to stop taking prednisone immediately.