5 Simple Habits That Will Help You Fall Asleep Fast

By Minda Zetlin, Sep 20, 2026

You’ve likely read or heard that you should not look at screens during the last hour before bed. That’s good advice almost everyone knows, and almost no one follows. But even if you can’t resist a little pre-bed phone use, you can still improve your sleep. Instead, try taking a break from your phone sometime during the day, for example by going for a walk. “Our phones have filled in all the time gaps in our days,” Alex Dimitriu, M.D., a psychiatrist and sleep medicine physician told Men’s Health. The problem with this, he said, is that your brain needs time to think. If you constantly distract it all day, those thoughts will come flooding back when you finally shut your eyes. Give those thoughts some space during the day and they’re less likely to ambush you at night.

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