Sleep Tips

Sleep Tips

Besides using your CPAP system routinely, taking care of your general health is also important to the quality of your lifestyle. Below are a number of tips for how to achieve a good night's sleep.

Maintain a Regular Bed and Wake Time
Different people require a different number of sleeping hours each night to feel refreshed. The average person needs 5-7 hours. You should try to go to bed and wake-up at a similar time each day to ensure a good sleep pattern is maintained.

Use Your Bedroom For Sleeping Only
It is best to keep work materials, computers and televisions out of the sleeping environment. This strengthens the association between bed and sleep.

Make your Sleeping Environment Cool, Quiet and Dark
A sleeping environment which is at a cool temperature and is quiet and dark will promote better sleep quality.

Refrain from eating 2 Hours Before Bedtime
Your metabolism slows during sleep so leaving 2 hours between eating and bedtime will give your stomach time to digest your most recent meal before it slows down during the night.

Avoid Cafffeine Close to Bedtime
Caffeine is a stimulant and therefore produces an alerting effect. The effects of caffeine can last for 3-5 hours and even if you don't think caffeine affects you, it may be disrupting or changing your sleep quality.

Exercise at Least 20 Minutes, 3 Times a Week
Getting your body moving keeps you healthy and agile while promoting better sleep quality and better living. It is best to exercise during the day or early evening and not during the last 3 hours before bedtime.

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mckooi wrote:Sleep Tips

Besides using your CPAP system routinely, taking care of your general health is also important to the quality of your lifestyle. Below are a number of tips for how to achieve a good night's sleep. . . .

And, make certain nobody steals your covers, hogs your side of the bed, or wakes you up just because they can't sleep - hubby can you hear me