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It may be bad to snooze your alarm if the practice affects sleep habits
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There is very little research on how, or even if, hitting snooze might affect your health or quality of life.
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Melinda Wenner Moyer
When my alarm goes off in the morning, I often feel like a zombie. Is it really so horrible to snooze it a few times?
In a recent study that used smartphones to track the sleep habits of more than 21,000 adults around the world for six months, researchers observed a perhaps unsurprising trend. After more than half of the recorded nights, participants hit the snooze button an average of 2.4 times before getting up.
