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by kekebo 813 days ago
Just watch your phases a bit:

"Several studies of PSG-measured sleep report increased SWS [25, 75], decreased REM sleep [74, 75, 160], and decreased REM density (e.g., number of eye movements during REM sleep) [74, 75]. However, this pattern is not always replicated [150]."[0]

(SWS =slow wave sleep)

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13722-016-0056-7

1 comments

Not sure how accurate my apple watch is, but I see minimal variance in my REM sleep between nights when I smoke and when I don't.

Alcohol very much screws up with my sleep though, and my total sleep score plummets if I go to bed drunk.

> Not sure how accurate my apple watch is

From what I understand, not very