You want tips to stop snoring because:
- you snore and bother somebody,
- you snore and bother yourself, or
- you know-or-suspect that you suffer from obstructive sleep apnea.
This section of Men's Health Tips ( MHT ) deals with symptoms, causes, and cures for both snoring and obstructive sleep apnea.
I make noise when I sleep; isn't that the symptom?
Sure, but there are several more symptoms of just snoring - also, you'd want to know how bad your snoring is, compared to:
a) other people who don't snore (like your bed-mate... if you still have one)
b) other people who do snore
c) yourself a few years ago (i.e., is it getting worse?)
And there's the apnea thing.
Apnea. That's one of the major things that sends people looking for tips to stop snoring. That's the condition where your breathing gets stopped while you sleep, and you struggle and thrash around until it starts again. And you scare your bed-mate - at least, until s/he gets tired of the nightly drama and moves to another bedroom, or sends you packing, so s/he can get a night's sleep.
Apnea doesn't affect everybody who snores, but almost everybody who does suffer apnea also snores, and started snoring first, before it developed into apnea.
Apnea kills. You probably want to do something about it before it kills you. Tips to stop snoring are also tips to stop obstructive sleep apnea.
Snoring (without apnea) probably doesn't kill many people, but it definitely kills - or helps to kill - relationships. If you are trying to get somebody to hate the thought of "sleeping" in the same room with you... If you are trying to get somebody to associate the very sight and sound of you with exhaustion and relentless droning, snorting, buzzing, whining, blubbering interruption - or prevention - of their desperately needed sleep... then snoring is the way to do it.
If you want to go to bed every night wondering if the other person is going to finally snap tonight and kill you in your bed, being a frequent snorer is the way to do it. Snorers have a nasty habit of snoring, of course, but they have what comes to be perceived as an even nastier habit... they fall asleep first.
No human can help resenting that. Night after night after night.
So, you have come to this page because somebody - you or the person you live with - has had enough.
We have some pages describing the reasons that you snore, or the reasons that you might have apnea, and several pages about tips to stop snoring. Take a look.
Here's the handy selection of our snoring related pages on this Men's Health Tips (MHT) site:
The MHT page | What the page is about |
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How and why snoring and apnea happen, and how you can eliminate them | |
Why do people snore |
What brings on the trumpeting of the night |
Sleep Apnea |
How your annoying snoring can turn deadly |
Smoking and Snoring intro |
Something makes you snore - if it's not the cigarettes you smoke that causes it, then the smoke makes it worse. |
Alcohol and Snoring intro |
Something makes you snore - if it's not the alcohol you drink that causes it, then the alcohol makes it worse. |
Obesity Causes Snoring |
Something makes you snore - if you are very overweight, then that all by itself is the primary cause (made worse by smoking and drinking). |
Obesity Causes Snoring - FIX IT! |
You are overweight and you snore (or worse, suffer apnea)? LOSE the LARD, NOW! |
Dairy and Snoring |
Consuming the juice of the moo-cow is likely not the primary cause, but it contributes. |
Confident that surgery is the cure? |
Surgeons are always so sure that their skill at slicing pieces out of you is the solution to your snoring problem. Maybe, maybe not. |
CPAP - snoring and apnea prevention by forced-air |
Appliances that push air in your face all night. |
Snoring and apnea prevention straps |
Straps and lifts and other harnesses that help with snoring. |
Snoring prevention mouth-pieces |
Anti-snoring appliances that work from inside your mouth. |
Snoring prevention nose-pieces |
Anti-snoring appliances that work from inside or outside your nose. |
Snoring prevention pillows |
Anti-snoring pillows that keep your head, neck, and jaw out of snoring position. |
Snoring prevention sprays |
Anti-snoring sprays that work inside your throat. |
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