Okay, I have the hiccups. In the past I’ve always cured them by drinking water backwards (you know, leaning over a cup of water and drinking it from the far side of the rim). I’ve also heard swallowing a tablespoon of sugar will cure them. Or a sudden shock. I was driving with my daughter one day when she had the hiccups. At a stop light I suddenly yelled “AHHHHH” at her. It worked. She no longer had the hiccups.
Any other suggestions?
Susan
Multiply two two-digit numbers in your head.
Owen
Place a wooden pencil across your lips (from side to side - eraser end will be near the rear corner of your mouth on one side, any point will be at the rear corner of the other side of your mouth). Must be a pencil, pens etc. do not work.
While holding the pencil across your mouth as above, slowly drink some water from a cup.
Kevin Krell
10x10?
The “rear corner”??? I wasn’t aware my mouth had corners, let alone front and rear.
I ate a small bowl of Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds cereal. The hiccups are gone. I recommend this. It’s tastier than a pencil.
Susan
Most people … … might need a slightly bigger challenge than that…
YMMV
Owen
Well …
A long time ago, I learned a little bit of the traditional east Indian health system, Ayurveda. According to Ayurveda, there are three “doshas” or humors; i.e. Vata, Pitta and Kapha (roughly, wind, bile and phlem).
Hiccups are said to be due to aggravation of Vata. Things that pacify Vata include warmth, moisture, etc.
So, many years ago when I had the hiccups, I thought, “let’s see if I can do something to pacify Vata, and maybe that will stop these hiccups.”
So I took a hot bath. The hiccups went way in a few short minutes. Whenever I’ve gotten the hiccups since, I’ve been able to stop them at any time by getting into a tub of hot bath water.
Best wishes,
Jerry
I hold my breath for about three hiccops’ worth of time while I do a relaxation meditation.
Belch. Most men can belch at will. (Ladies can, but seem unwilling to do so, for some reason.) If you have hiccoughs, you have excessive wind in the upper stomach. Belching will relieve that. You may need to do it a few times.
I read somewhere that Hiccoughs are an infantile response to stomach over-stimulation, and that sucking stops it. So the medical answer to the question “How do you cure hiccoughs?”
is
“YOU SUCK!”
Me too only without the meditation.
Almost always works for me too.
I’ve always wondered how much of it is mental, because most of the cures seem to be about getting your mind on something else. I don’t know, but it’s interesting.
My cure: Get busy doing something interesting and wait for them to go away. It’s an effective cure for many ills: Boredom, post-nap drugged feeling, foot cramps, my wife’s cat…
T
Yeap, same here except sometimes I exhale first.
I don’t get hiccoughs.
djm
Mostly we use the sugar trick, but when I’m not near sugar, I’ve found that strong diaphragm breathing (i.e., contracting the diaphragm firmly…the kind of thing singers do when they really need to support a note)…doing it right through the hiccup, rather than just letting the diaphragm do what it will…will typically stop them within one or two hiccups.
Redwolf
Running full on into a brick wall. Failing that, a tall glass of water. Sometimes both, at staggered intervals does nicely. 
Sugar. My grandmother’s cure, and it seems to work for me.
Hold your breath, then take ten large swallows of water. Resume breathing, hiccup free.
I tried this. It gave me hiccups and flooded my desk.
I agree with the suggestions about belching. My old standby is to take a very deep breath, hold it a second or two, then exhale very, very slowly. At some point in the exhalation, you’ll hiccup. Keep exhaling right through it to allow a curative belch to occur. Might take a couple of tries.
I think “A Curative Belch” should be added to the list of good names for bands.
I lay on my back on the floor with my arms over my head and take the deepest breath possible and hold it for as long as I possibly can, until I’m nearly going to pass out. After a few tries of this the hiccups will go away. It’s the only thing that works for me. Just holding my breath alone won’t do it.