Smoking is a big reason for a number of serious health conditions, lung cancer, as well as other forms of cancer, and heart disease, just to name a few. However, what you may not have realized is that it is also one of the causes of snoring.

Smoking causing swelling in the mucous membranes of the nose and the tissues of the throat, as well as damaging the small vessels of the lungs by blocking them, causing snoring as well as a number of other problems.

Recent studies have proven that there is a link between smoking and snoring with smokers more likely to have a higher incidence of snoring than non-smokers.

Researchers are now also investigating the damage nicotine does to the nervous system as it is thought that prolonged exposure to nicotine can cause nerve damage to the airways, increase the risks of snoring, as well as increasing the amount of snoring.

Perhaps the realization that smoking cigarettes is not only bad for your health, and even your sleep will be affected by snoring. Smoking adversely affects the airway, as mentioned above, by increasing resistance and impeding the airflow. Besides increasing the mucous in the throat, it can also affect the width of the airway, which effect men more than women as men have a naturally narrower wind pipe.

Some smokers continue smoking because they believe that the damage has been done. However this is not true.

The damage caused by smoking can be undone and smokers who give up will notice an improvement in their health and well being within a relatively short period of time