Singing lowers your blood pressure, regulates your heartbeat, and even helps some people quit snoring. Here are a few songs for snorers, an explanation of how singing helps with snoring, and why you should start humming your favorite tunes today. Do wop.

The easiest, healthiest, and funnest (no, that’s not a word) way to start singing is to join a choir. Research shows that choral singers see their choirs as more coherent or meaningful social groups than the sportsmen and women saw their sports teams. Singing with a choir is an inexpensive way to improve your well-being – and you don’t tell your choir that you’re singing to quit snoring! Of course, you could capitalize on your snoring problem and start a “singing for snorers” a capella group.

Future research may look at how moving and breathing in synchrony with others might be responsible for creating a unique well-being effect. Even if you don’t join a choir to quit snoring, you might start warming up with these singing exercises.

Of course, singing in a choir isn’t the same as doing specific songs for snorers. But, there isn’t a lot of solid research evidence that singing helps people quit snoring. In this article, I share how singing helps you quit snoring — in theory. I also describe a few easy singing exercises for snorers.

Singing exercises the muscles of your throat

In How to Snore No More, we learned that one cause of snoring is the relaxation of the muscles in the roof of your mouth, tongue and throat. This is caused by the natural aging process. If these tissues and muscles relax too much, they will partially block your airway and vibrate. The more narrow your airway is, the more forceful your airflow becomes. The vibration of those tissues causes snoring.

Some singing exercises to quit snoring are specifically designed for snorers to target and tone the areas of the throat where the snoring vibrations happen. The songs and throat exercises focus on the muscles that control the soft palate, the palatopharyngeal arch, the movement of the tongue, and the naso-pharynx (the region of the pharynx up behind the soft palate which leads to the nose).

The effectiveness of songs for snorers depends on the cause of snoring

Can Singing Help You Quit Snoring?

If snoring is caused by your mouth and throat anatomy nasal problems, alcohol consumption, or obstructive sleep apea, you might not benefit from the practice of singing for snorers. Singing firms up and tones the muscles and tissues of your mouth, throat, and tongue – but even the best singing exercises can’t fix your basic anatomy, nasal problems, or sleep apnea obstructions. If your snoring is caused by a low, thick soft palate that narrows your airway, singing won’t change anything.

Further, people who are overweight may have extra tissues in the back of their throat that may narrow their airways. In this case, losing weight may be the best way to quit snoring. Singing can help you quit snoring – but it depends on the reason you snore.

Some singing exercises use sounds and tunes selected for strong movements, which can help snorers quit snoring. The long-term aim of these songs for snorers is a toned, athletic pharynx that is no longer predisposed to collapse and vibrate in sleep.

Snorers need to sing long and often enough to make the throat muscles work

Singing on your way to work won’t help you quit snoring – unless you’re stuck in traffic for hours! If singing for snorers is to work for you, you need to be deliberate and focused about exercising the muscles of your throat and tongue. Taking singing lessons is an option, because it’ll teach you the basic scales. Joining a choir is also a great idea because it’ll force you to keep singing regularly. You need to keep exercising your throat and tongue muscles if you want these “singing for snorers” tips to work for you.

Singing Exercises for Snorers

• Press the tongue firmly against the hard palate (the roof of the mouth behind the front teeth) several times. Then press it against the middle of the roof of the mouth … and then against the back. Keep pressing and moving your tongue for about three minutes.
• Press the tip of your tongue firmly behind the front teeth, while simultaneously pressing the back of the tongue against the floor of the mouth.
• While holding the tongue against the hard palate, sing all of the vowel sounds: “Aaaa … Eeee … Iiii … Oooo … and Uuuu.” Spend three minutes on each vowel. While singing the vowel sounds, vary the pitch from high to low. Changes in pitch cause variations in vibration that exercise the tissues more completely.
• Make humming sounds. You can do this for a few minutes throughout the day—for example, when you’re driving or working around the house. This also shakes up lazy nasal or chest cilia.
• Whenever you swallow, try to keep the tongue pressed against the roof of the mouth. You’ll feel tension at the back of your throat.
• Forcefully blow up balloons. This isn’t a song for snorers, but it could increase the muscle tone of your tongue and throat muscles.

When I researched “songs for snorers”, I only found one website that offers singing exercises for snorers. There are several testimonies that it helped people quit snoring, but of course no guarantees! If you want to quit snoring and you think singing might help, you really have nothing to lose by trying the singing program.

If you’ve tried singing to quit snoring, I’d love to know how it worked for you. I think singing exercises might be helpful for some snorers, but it depends on the cause of snoring. Your best bet is to talk to your doctor about the reason you snore and how to quit snoring.

Source: the above singing exercises for snorers are from Dr Murray Grossan, who was interviewed for an article in Bottom Line Personal for his snoring remedies.