She says she likes it, even though her partner doesn’t. In October 2022, I passed the device onto Amie Wong, Wirecutter's senior analyst of Data & Insights, who has a partner who snores. How the Smart Nora has held upĪfter two years of using the Smart Nora, I dropped some weight-and apparently, my snoring habit. I did test five other, less-costly options, though none of them worked as well for me (and as of 2023, most had been discontinued). At $360, it was also the most expensive device. It may sound bizarre, but the Smart Nora was the most effective device I tried, cutting my total snoring in half, according to my SnoreLab sleep scores. It continues to work for me as well as it did during my initial testing. I took a break from using the device (or any other anti-snoring device) for a while after we first published this article, before going back to it for follow-up. The mic device also has an adjustable sensitivity setting, if your room is noisy or you’re just finding your pillow to be inflating more often than you want it to. Controls on the base station allow you to adjust the pillow-elevation level so you’re less likely to be jolted awake if all you need is a tiny nudge. Occasionally, that gentle pillow motion did wake me up, which caused me to switch positions. In this sped-up video, the system is cranked up all the way for maximum effect. To gently adjust your sleeping position, the under-bed system sends a puff of air to the pillow insert. After calculating an average of 10 nights’ worth of intervention-free snoring readings to get a starting “sleep score,” I slept with each anti-snoring device for several nights and tracked my SnoreLab results against that baseline. To get a baseline measurement of how much I was snoring without any intervention, I used SnoreLab ( iOS, Android), a highly rated app that listens for snoring sounds, records clips, and analyzes your resting audio. Ultimately, losing weight seemed to help my snoring best, and I have since passed the device onto another staffer. Only one worked well enough for me that I continued using it-sporadically-over the next two years. If your doctor has ruled out sleep apnea-which is often treated with a CPAP machine-you might consider one of the many over-the-counter options that claim to help curb snoring. Other, less serious factors contribute to most snoring. But just 19% of those female habitual snorers and 34% of the male habitual snorers had sleep apnea. “In a classic study of the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea in adults aged 30-60 years, habitual snoring occurred in 28 percent of women and 44 percent of men,” Hilbert wrote in an email.
Of course, snoring isn’t always a sign of sleep apnea. “If you snore and it’s pretty consistent, it is something that is likely necessary that you look into.” Testing often includes going to an all-night sleep clinic, where doctors will monitor not just your sleep behavior but also your heart rhythms and oxygen levels, Hilbert explained. “You can die from it, and it is a risk factor for so many other diseases,” said Erica Carleton, then an assistant professor of human resources and organizational behavior at the University of Saskatchewan, who has studied sleep disorders and disruptions in the context of work. Sleep apnea occurs when your airway is blocked or constricted while you sleep, and it can result in poor sleep, high blood pressure, memory issues, cardiovascular concerns, and other serious health problems. It’s also a symptom of a disorder called sleep apnea (PDF). Janet Hilbert, MD, an associate professor of clinical medicine at the Yale School of Medicine’s Center for Sleep Medicine, explained that weight gain, alcohol intake, nasal obstruction (from colds and allergies), and even your sleep position can all cause snoring. I’m not alone: According to a chapter on snoring in Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine (Fifth Edition), “about 40% of the adult population” snores. I’ve had the polyps removed, but the snoring continued. A few years ago, I was diagnosed with nasal polyps, and I regularly snored like a wild boar.
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