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A five-minute route through the site: work out what kind of snorer you are, rule out the serious cause, then pick remedies that match your anatomy rather than the ad you saw.

If you read nothing else, read this page. It is the shortest path from "I snore" to "I know what to do about it."

Step 1 — Rule out the serious cause first

Before you try anything, spend two minutes on this question, because it changes everything that follows.

Ordinary snoring is noise. Obstructive sleep apnea is noise plus repeated closure of the airway, oxygen dips and fragmented sleep, and it carries real cardiovascular risk. The remedies on this site are for the first thing. The second thing needs a doctor.

The warning signs are specific: someone has witnessed you stop breathing, you wake gasping or choking, you fall asleep during the day in situations where you should not, you wake with headaches most mornings, or you have high blood pressure that is hard to control.

Step 2 — Find out what kind of snorer you are

Snoring is a sound made by soft tissue vibrating in a narrowed airway, but the narrowing can happen in three quite different places: the nose, the mouth and soft palate, or the base of the tongue and throat. The location determines which remedies can possibly work.

This is the single most useful thing you can learn about your own snoring, and it takes one night to establish.

Step 3 — Fix the free things

A meaningful share of snoring is situational rather than structural, and the situational causes cost nothing to remove.

Step 4 — Match a remedy to your type

Only now does it make sense to look at products.

And when it comes to buying something specific:

Step 5 — Deal with the household

Snoring is a two-person problem, and the person who is not snoring is usually the one losing the most sleep.