Favourite cure for hiccups.

[Devlyn]

This should be interesting!

1. Unwrap and eat a candy cane. The peppermint soothes your stomach, and as simple as it sounds, opening and eating a candy cane requires a small amount of concentration, breaking the attention on the hiccups.

2. Drink water from the opposite side of a glass or cup, in other words, the side away from you. You'll be distracting your mind away from the hiccups by doing something foreign to you and having to pay attention to it.

What do you do when you have the hiccups?

[LordKAT]

Exaggerate them, it seems to work.

[AdamMLP]

Wish that there was someone around to ask me to tell them when I was about to hiccup next.  It always seemed to work at school (the only correct thing that teacher ever taught in a cookery class), but no one out of there knows it, and it doesn't work if you have to explain it to someone beforehand.

[DriftingCrow]

 Letting a teaspoon of sugar melt on your tongue also works for me.

[MyKa]

Peanut butter. Works every time!

[Ms. OBrien CVT]

Like LearnedHand, except a tablespoon of sugar.

[Joe.]

Focusing on when the next hiccup is going to come. More often than not, it doesn't come.

[DriftingCrow]

If I don't have sugar, I've been told that holding your breath works. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

[JRD]

I do the spoonful of sugar thing. But its been a good while since I've gotten them.

[Pica Pica]

I don't get them but I have a friend who does almost every time we meet. It doesn't work, but my favourite cure is to make her jump. I like seeing her jump.

[Jill F]

I hold my breath until I'm about to pass out.

When my wife has them, I can usually sneak up and startle them out of her. 

[Jennygirl]

Works every time for me and everyone I tell... I learned it when I was a kid from my older step sister...

1) hold breath for 10 seconds

2) immediately breathe out. Swallow 5 times in a row without breathing in

Works like a charm. Its super hard to swallow 5 times in a row but it works!

[Jayne]

If you feel the hiccup coming then try to swallow as you hiccup, when I do this it creates a burp, once you burp the hiccups will stop.
I've heard that hiccups are caused by trapped air & the burp seems to dislodge the trapped air

[LordKAT]

If you feel the hiccup coming then try to swallow as you hiccup, when I do this it creates a burp, once you burp the hiccups will stop.
I've heard that hiccups are caused by trapped air & the burp seems to dislodge the trapped air

Unborn babies get hiccups. Your diaphragm just gets twitchy.

[Cindy]

Half a bottle of whiskey, you hiccup but don't know about!

Joking, only joking!

[LordKAT]

Half a bottle of whiskey, you hiccup but don't know about!

Joking, only joking!

I've done that cure.

[Cindy]

I've done that cure.

Sadly so have I

[SunKat]

My standard cure is to slowly take 10 sips of water, swallowing between each sip, without breathing. On the few occasions that it doesn't work the first time, it will usually work the second time.

[Pica Pica]

John 'Mad Jack' Mytton was a regency lord who tried to cure his hiccoughs by setting fire to his shirt.