What Factors Affect My Snoring?

If you are a snorer, then you may be wondering what makes your snoring worse. Well here are a few:

• Alcohol or sleeping tablets - these relax the muscles even further
• Being overweight - this puts pressure on the airways
• Colds, allergies, nasal polyps, a damaged or crooked nose - can block the nose, causing you to breathe through your mouth
• Smoking - smokers are twice as likely as non-smokers to snore because their airways get inflamed and blocked
• Sleeping on your back

Snoring Can Be Cured By Hypnosis

It is not widely known that hypnosis can cure snoring. This may at first seem a little far-fetched, but hypnosis has been shown to be highly effective for helping people stop smoking, dealing with self-esteem and whole range of other psychological difficulties and indeed some physical ailments. If you think about it, snoring is about the way in which we breathe when we are asleep, so it is a matter of re-training ourselves to breathe differently at these times. Of course as we are asleep at these times we can't just tell our bodies to behave differently, so it is a matter of tapping into the unconscious.

In fact, hypnosis has been found to help the non-snoring partner as well by training them to "tune out" the noise of snoring and therefore allowing them to get a good night's sleep for a change!

You can find out more about beating snoring through hypnosis at snore-buster.info

Snoring and Relationships

Did you know that snoring is often cited as a reason for relationship breakdown and divorce? Yes, strange as it may seem, it is true! Generally speaking, men's snoring tends to be worse than that of women. Often the woman in a relationship with a snorer can find themselves seriously deprived of sleep. Inevitably, when both partners are over-tired, they become less patient and arguments can result. If the solution to the lack of sleep is that one or other of the partners in the relationship is banished to the guest room, then consequently the couple's sex life and general intimacy will suffer.

If this is a picture you recognize, then you need to take action. You wouldn't want your relationship to become another statistic just as a result of snoring! If this is the case for you then now is the time to look into solutions for yours or your partner's snoring.

Alcohol and Snoring

Did you know that alcohol can make your snoring worse? The reason for this is that the alcohol makes your muscles in the airway relax even more than usual when you are asleep, adding to the turbulence caused. Now, I rarely drink, but when I do my wife will tell that my snoring is at its worst. So on these rare occasions I can expect to poked and prodded through the night in my wife's attempts to stop me from snoring. Except of course, it doesn't work because I sleep through pretty much anything when I have been drinking.

What Causes Snoring?

Have you ever wondered what causes snoring? Well, it is very simple. During normal daytime breathing our muscles keep our airways open. At night, however, when we are sleeping, these muscles become relaxed and floppy. The result is that the airway becomes restricted and turbulence is caused.

Snoring can originate from the nose, oropharynx or the base of the tongue. In recent years it has been found that the tongue plays a far more important role in the incidence of snoring than was once thought.

In general terms, people are more likely to snore if they breathe through the mouth when they are snoring rather than through the nose. If, therefore, snorers can find ways to divert their breathing through the nose rather than through the mouth then snoring may be alleviated. There a number of devices available to do this which you wear while you are asleep. An alternative approach, however, is through the use of hypnotherapy which effectively re-trains people to breathe differently while they are asleep.

What Sort of Snorer Are You?

Did you know that there are several different types of snoring? Here are some simple tests to see what sort of snorer you are:

Nose test - Looking in a mirror, press the side of one nostril to close it. With your mouth closed, breathe in through your other nostril. Does your nostril collapse while you are breathing? Now, with your mouth closed, try breathing in through your nose. If you cannot breathe well through your nose you may be suffering from nasal stuffiness caused by allergy.

Mouth Breathing Test - Open your mouth and make a snoring noise. Now close your mouth and try to make the same noise. If you can only snore with your mouth open then you are a 'mouth breather'.

Tongue Test - Stick your tongue out as far as it will go and grip it between your teeth. Now try to make a snoring noise. If the snoring noise is reduced with your tongue in this forward position then you are probably what is known as a 'tongue base snorer'.

Establishing what type of snorer you are will assist you in curing your snoring.