Quit Snoring, Quit Smoking

Did you think that was a saying? Yes, it was, as I’ve just invented it. As you probably know by now, this is a blog about snoring: I do snore a lot, I do drive everybody crazy, and for the picture to be complete, find out that I’m a bit deaf, too.

If you had no idea by now, find our from me that there is a direct relationship between snoring and smoking. Smoking makes you snore, but also snoring makes you smoke. And I don’t know if there are any real cures for snoring.

How Snoring Makes You Smoke

Imagine that your wife wakes you up several times a night because you are snoring too loud for her delicate ears and for her easy sleep. At a point, you think that you’d better take a break from sleeping, you go to the kitchen and you make yourself a nice sandwich. You eat it and then you feel like smoking. So you smoke. Then you think to go to bed, and your wife’s face comes into your mind, so you think to let her sleep some more, and you smoke another cigarette, and another one, until you notice you’ve just finished the whole pack.

Leaving jokes behind, this story has a serious reason why I’m telling it to you: when you smoke, the cells in your esophagus react. Esophagus is the tube you have in your throat, which serves to lead the food in the stomach and the smoke in the lungs. The reaction of the esophagus determines an increase on the natural mucus secretion, and guess what? Your air paths are obstructed out of the blue.

He who cannot breathe normally snores. That’s a certitude. So just quit smoking to quit snoring. Or the other way around.