If you’ve ever tried to sleep next to, or even in the same room with, someone who snores, you already know how disruptive and annoying it can be. Never mind what it’s doing to the person who’s doing the snoring, to anyone else in the room, it can be highly disturbing.
There are a number of factors that affect snoring, including how loud it is and how long it lasts. In part because of this, there are numerous ‘stop snoring’ methods, medications, applications, and devices floating around the marketplace. Some work, some don’t. Much depends on whether or not the procedure you’re trying addresses the specific cause of your snoring.
Many of the devices available are only temporary solutions. Products such as chinstraps, nose strips, and mouthpieces merely address correcting the symptom, which is snoring, rather than eliminating the problem that causes the snoring. These ‘band-aid’ remedies only work as long as you use them. If you forget to apply your chinstrap or run out of nose strips, the snoring returns.
If it worked in the first place.
There have been dozens of ‘natural cures’ for snoring and some of these may also work. Changing your position in bed, especially if you sleep on your back, refraining from alcohol before bedtime or taking sleeping pills, losing weight, meditation and yoga, breathing in steam, raising the head of the bed or sitting up to sleep; all have been suggested ways to eliminate snoring. Again, the only problem with any of these methods is that they only work for as long as you use them, without addressing or correcting the cause of your snoring.
In extreme cases, such as with nasal deformities, surgery may be necessary to be completely free from snoring and of course your doctor would be the one to determine if that was necessary.
For whatever is causing your snoring, it all boils down to blockage or semi-blockage of your airway when you lay down to sleep. Your muscles relax when you sleep and the soft tissues of the mouth and throat vibrate as you inhale and exhale, which causes the noise of snoring.
There are typically 5 primary reasons that make you snore. The soft palate is too weak. Narrow nasal passages, a stuffy nose, or allergies can result in snoring. A weak throat or throat muscles that are too tense will cause snoring. If the jaw is too small or too narrow, or the muscles that support it are too tense, snoring will occur.
Possibly the most common reason for snoring is because the tongue lolls back into the throat when you lay down and the muscles relax. This blocks part of the airway and is responsible for snoring in most people.
Of all the remedies mentioned, my Stop Snoring Program is the only one that addresses the cause of snoring. And the Stop Snoring Program specifically deals with the top five most common causes mentioned earlier.
All it takes is a few minutes a day, performing some really simple exercises, designed to give you relief from snoring and allow you, and your partner, to enjoy a quiet, peaceful night’s sleep.
Warm regards,
Christian Goodman