Why you might want to avoid hitting snooze
Posted Feb 20, 2014 7:17 am.
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Do not give into temptation and hit the snooze button.
A sleep psychologist has found those extra minutes in bed add up too quickly and on average, we lose 85 hours a year to snoozing, much of that in the winter when it’s a struggle to get out of a nice warm bed.
One survey found people used the snooze button to steal an extra 14 minutes of shuteye a night and nearly one third had tried to cheat temptation by putting their alarm clock on the other side of the bedroom.