Hey How To Listeners, we're off this week, but we wanted to bring you an interesting one from the archives.

James Nester, author of Breath, the New Science of a Lost Art, helps a listener on his journey to stop snoring. I'm going to turn things over to

former host David Epstein and we'll see you back here next week.

You mentioned your ex describing your snoring. what was that like?

Yeah, she described me as a freight train,

which I did take personally, yes.

Fair. the middle of the night to the sound of a chainsaw only to realize it's just your partner snoring or worse your own snoring

you're not alone nearly half of adult snore a bunch of our listeners wrote in

complaining about this nocturnal menace.

One woman named An, she actually sent us a recording of her husband.

Seriously, listen to this. Holy, okay, okay, that is impressively annoying, but it's more than that.

Snoring can be a health issue and it can lead to so-called sleep

where couples sleep in separate beds or even to actual divorce

according to some research.

I snore frequently and very loud to the point that people I'm with like can't sleep.

This is Andrew from Los Angeles. His snoring got so bad it came between him and his

feline friends.

My cats won't sleep with me anymore.

It's, I'm trying not to take it too personally.

When we first got them, they used to fall asleep on my chest.

It was very cute, and now they won't even be in my room.

So how did you become aware that this was something new all the sudden?

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