First of all, you should know that snoring occurs only during sleeping, and it is caused by the vibration of the airways. The fact that it happens only when we sleep, thus when our muscles are relaxed, it seems to be a direct connection between snoring and muscle relaxation.

Most Known Causes Of Snoring

1. Allergies: because one of the allergy symptoms is airways clogging, this may result in snoring loudly
2. Alcohol Ingestion: this makes airways react and vibrate, causing a snoring effect
3. Cold and flu: the bigger mucus secretion that occurs when we suffer from cold is a cause of clogging the air passages, and our body’s natural reaction is to keep breathing at all costs, thus leading to extremely loud snoring and suffocation symptoms.
4. Obesity: snoring is one of the effects of being overweight
5. Nasal sprays overuse: this can cause irritation of the throat, thus being a cause of snoring

For whatever unknown reason, snoring seems to affect mostly middle-aged men. There are also women snoring, but the incidence is much smaller than in male population.

A possible cause is that women produce progesterone hormones, and these hormones inhibit snoring. Based on this fact, there are several anti-snoring devices which use progesterone as the main substance.