How to Snore Less
Monday, February 14th, 2011Do you snore loudly during sleep? Is your husband or wife complaining? You might not notice your snoring at night because you are asleep. However, your loved ones know who is the noisy one is. Snoring is caused by the obstruction of air movement in your respiratory structures. Sometimes, these noises are soft and quiet. However, often they are loud and unpleasant to hear for those around you who want a good and pleasant night’s sleep.
1. Stop Drinking 3 Hours Before Bed
Alcohol before bedtime increases the relaxation of the tongue and throat muscles, making snoring more likely.
2. Eat Light at Dinnertime
Less food in the stomach during sleep, increases the lung capacity for oxygen.
3. Eat breakfast & lunch
This helps you eat less at Dinnertime
4. Breathe Through Your Nose
Train yourself to breathe through your nose instead of your mouth.
5. Keep Airways Open & Clear
Blowing your nose and keeping it clear will help you be able to breathe easier and help you not use your mouth to breathe while you sleep.
6. Sleep Using A Pillow
This raises your head position in relation to your body.
7. Avoid Sleeping on Your Stomach
It increases the throat obstruction
8. Sleep On Your Side.
It helps to open up airways as your tongue is less likely to stay in your throat.
9. Avoid Sleeping on Your Back
A trick to help – sew a tennis or golf ball on the upper back of your night-shirt so you won’t sleep on your back.
10. Exercise
A deeper, sound sleep is much easier to come by when your body has been working hard as the muscles that have been worked relax more easily.
11. Reduce Your Weight
Being obese and/or overweight greatly increases snoring. Losing weight will help to reduce snoring as there it literally reduces the amount of fat in the throat area which opens the airways.

