A year ago, I was diagnosed with nasal polyps and regularly snored like a wild boar. I’ve had the polyps removed, but the snoring continues. I’m not alone. According to Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine (Fifth Edition), “about 40 percent of the adult population” snores. Sometimes my snoring wakes up my husband (and vice versa), so I decided to try out six popular over-the-counter anti-snoring contraptions.

To get a baseline measurement of how much I was snoring without any intervention, I used SnoreLab, a highly rated app that listens for snoring sounds, records clips, and analyzes your resting audio. After calculating an average of four nights’ intervention-free snoring readings to get a starting “sleep score,” I then slept with each anti-snoring device for several nights and tracked my SnoreLab results against that baseline. (Note that some of these devices may work for you and not me — and none of them should be used to treat sleep apnea. If you’re having restless sleep, gasping awake, or even feeling tired and foggy in the daytime, see a doctor.)

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While longer-term testing is needed before we could confidently recommend any of these, a few devices showed promise in our preliminary — and far from scientific — trials. Here’s how they did, in order of how much I found they helped:

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This system will slightly move your head when it catches you snoring. It includes a wireless, mic-equipped device that can sit bedside or be wall-mounted to detect snoring. Once it does that, it communicates with an under-bed base station that pumps air through a tube to an insert that lives inside your pillow. That motion gently adjusts your head position to reduce snoring (in my case, it effectively did so without waking me up). It sounds bizarre, but this was actually the most effective device I tried, cutting my total snoring in half, according to my SnoreLab sleep scores. It is also the most expensive. There are many options for personalization, which we will continue to test.