Try asking the person a question they have to think about - what colour are you pants? how many times did you cry during the Olympics?. It works well and everyone gets to know a little more about you

Get the person to sniff vinegar, without them knowing it is going to be vinegar.
(I invented this myself and it has worked whenever I have tested it).

I ask the person to leave the room because there's nothing more annoying in the entire world ever past present or future. That's how I cure people's hiccups.

Drinking something fizzy upside down always does the trick. You just have to be careful not to drink too quickly as you wouldn't want to spill nor have it result in burps :-)

Get someone to put their hand on your tummy while you put your fingers in your ears to block out noise and stick your tongue out as far as it can go. Guaranteed to get rid of them!

Get the person to try and get their little finger tips as close together as possible, but without them touching. Failing that, ask them to imagine a cow, get them to describe what the cow and it's surroundings look like. Failing that, slap them in the face!

When I last had hiccoughs, I was offered £20 if I hiccoughed again. And I didn't.

It was infuriating really. Could have used that shiny £20 note to buy a small china hummingbird in a sombrero ornament I've had my eye on.

So, my cure is, tell the person with hiccoughs you will give them money if they hiccough again. Not only will it cure their hiccoughs, but you can laugh at them as they annoyed TRYING to hiccough again to get the money.

I have a sure-fire way to stop them - I promise it works!!

As soon as you have had the first hiccup, you rub both of your earlobes using your thumb and forefinger (thumb at the back, forefinger at the front with just the forefinger moving). You have to be quick though - if you do this before the second hiccup occurs, it will cure them.

This has worked so many times for me

Sip water in tiniest sips possible. In my cases it stopped around 5th sip.

The way to cure hiccups is to hold your breath. It stops the spasms of the diaphragm causing them.

I was told to think of a white horse running on a beach.. I think I got that wrapped up in the thought I 'forgot'to hiccup again.. But when you have Shadowfax and Gandalf chasing some hobbits along a beach in your mind its easy to forget everything!

This works a treat, but will only work once (n/a for serial hiccuppers).

You walk up to the person and ask them 10 questions, it's best if the questions require a little thought such as "What did you have for dinner last night..." "Can you remember who won X Factor 2 years ago..." or to combine your theories you could even ask them "which do you prefer...pineapples or bald men?" "who's your favourite teenage mutant ninja turtle..." ok you get the idea.

A combination of 10 questions that will require a bit of thought and a little bit of "what is this person talking about" will solve your hiccups in no time.

Warning... the patient may think you've completely lost your mind as you cannot tell them you are trying to cure the hiccups (it won't work if they know what you're doing), you just have to start asking.

Press thumb and middle finger of each hand together, not hard, just connected (as if you're meditating) It has worked on almost everyone I've tried it on since I overheard the tip at a party years ago!

You have to consume 14 chocolate bars, 17 strawberry bon-bons, a portion of Fish and Chips and a party sized Tirimasu. Regardless of whether it works or not, you'll feel significantly more cheerful about the whole sorry situation.

Hold your nose & drink a glass of water from the wrong side of a glass. My old boss used to come up with something different everytime , he reckoned his cures only worked once. This was the only one I could remember!

1. Have a big drink. Of anything thirst quenching. Dehydration is often a cause.

2. Breathe out as far as you can, then cough out the last bit of breath - this stretches the diapragm.

3. Mercilessly poke fun at the person with hiccups. They might then be more likely to try either of the first 2 suggestions just to shut you up.

Eat some brown sugar. that is all!

Eat a teaspoon of granulated sugar - not sweetener. Always does the trick, don't know why.

Eat a teaspoon of granulated sugar - not sweetener. Always does the trick, don't know why.

Ive always found breathing in and out really deeply calms the diaphram and stops hiccups. That or trying to burp.

Nan always got me to drink water upsidedown which usually results in getting very wet!

stand in front of the person, stick up your thumbs and tell them to grip them as had as they can, keep telling them its not hard enough squeeze harder, tadaaaaaaaaaa no more hiccups , beware of using this method with really strong people or you may need a cure for sore thumbs

I have a cure, you may not like it BUT it would solve the problem of hiccups!!!

Hold your breath for 3 minutes and then you'll be dead... so it won't matter anyway. Ha!

Breathe in as much as you can. Hold that. Then take little sips of air to keep filling yourself up as much as you can. Keep doing that until you can't do it anymore. Hold it...and then finally let all the air out and breathe properly. Now you are back to normal. It's not funny but it does work. =]

When I was at school there was a teacher who used to get any kid with hiccoughs to come up to the front and hiccough for the class's entertainment. Stopped it instantly, every time.

Kirsty's right, you know. After a big BBQ tonight I had hiccoughs which were getting embarrassing. Kirsty was there and said "pineapple" enthusiastically to me and guess what, not another hiccough in sight. Astonishing! Give the resident 'prankster' more credit!

Happy to see your blog as it is just what I’ve looking for and excited to read all the posts.

I find if I'm with someone else I ask them to feed me a glass of water whilst i stick my fingers in my ears. if I'm on my own I hold my nose whilst drinking a glass of water slowly.

I am going to try the pineapple thing tho!

Visualize yourself as an Olympic 'synchronized swimmer' in a pink glitter costume.Take a deep breath, pinch your nose and hold it for 5 seconds, count another 5 seconds and jump like pool like a prima ballerina still holding your nose. Once you have safely entered the water you can 'unpinch' and start your routine. Let your friends score your efforts, 'hiccupless' ...

A teaspoonful of vinegar always does the trick for myself and my daughter! Fortunately we both really like vinegar so it's not too bad!

Thanks for the pineapple trick!! Im going to try that one day! Did u know there's a man who's been hiccuping for 68yrs and still counting? I guess none of the tricks worked for him...my suggestion is to do a handstand, then drink half a glass of pickle juice. If you've got a friend there then they should scare just randomly shout something or shock you-BUT do it on a carpet floor in case you fall over. It always works with my friends, the upside down should work, if it doesn't then the pickle juice should and if THAT doesn't work you'll get shocked while upside down so it should DEFINETELY work. Although if you've scared them once then the shocking them might not work again. Thanx. Xxx

put a little pinch of sugar on your tongue and keep your mouth closed,it works for my family

scare the person like saying BOO!!! unexpectedly so they just gasp and hiccups stop works everytime with my friends

Sit on a step or a small chair with your knees bent, put your head between your knees and your arms in the air above your head.

No idea why it works, but I taught my class of 6year olds this last year and it worked every time! And they all thought it was hilarious!

Eat a teaspoon of the coldest sorbet you have in your freezer - as slowly as possible

Hold your nose and swallow; problem solved!

I have this tried and tested family cure:
"Just surprise the person having hiccups by saying when will you return my £200 or you owe me such n such money"! Its works I promise.Perhaps its the element of surprise that does it:)

The best way is a teaspoon of lemon juice or vinegar, I tell the kids it's hiccup medicine. Works instantly, doesn't taste nice though.

Boo!!!!!!!

Make duck noises! Not only a giggle but helps cure the hiccups too!!!

I think back to what I had for dinner, including drinks and condiments. Then breakfast, last nights last nights tea and so on. My hiccups have usually gone by last Tuesday tea time :)

Count backwards from 100 sipping an innocent smoothie after very 10 numbers while Doing a handstand! You can switch the handstand for just being upside down (hanging of the sofa for instance) I've seen it work once but well let's face it if it doesn't it'll be a good laugh!

I always ask the person with hiccups if they want a piece of blackcurrant pie - works every time. For myself, I have a spoonful of granulated sugar.

I always thought giving somone a fright was a traditional method of getting rid of the hiccups. However when my German friend was suffering an affliction of the hiccups, and I subsequently lept out of a neighbouring hedge to scare her out of her hiccups she was so shocked she landed in the ditch. It seems this is not the custom in Germany. Result: one puzzled muddy German, lots of laughter, ...and I think the hiccups disappeared

Bend a matchstick in half, rest it over the edge of a glass of water, and proceed to drink the water through the matchstick. Sounds odd, but it always works...

Drink water via a straw whilst putting your fingers in youears

The only thing that works for me is to drink exactly 10 sips of water with one breath, then hold your breath for a few more seconds.

Forget pineapples; it's all about the apples!

Close your eyes and picture an apple. Imagine you are eating an apple. Taste the apple. Say apples over and over. Your hiccups will be gone instantly.

Credit goes to my friend Mel, who came up with this while working on an apple farm 12 years ago. It's worked every time without fail since that day and on countless friends.

I laugh into a pillow followed by scaring myself with a MASSIVE BOO!!WHILST RUNNING PAST A MIRROR LOL. It works too lol

Ask them what their middle name is.
Works everytime.

Hold your breath & pinch your nose whilst someone else put's their thumbs in your ears (preferably your dad as dad's have the biggest thumbs!)

A bit like Mary Poppins would say...a spoonful of sugar and a glass of water! works every time!

Swap the sugar and salt shakers, hee hee.

This genuinely works:- Take the hiccupee's hand, hold it palm up and press on the inside of the wrist with your thumb (gently, you don't want to make their hand go numb), and with the thumb of your other hand, massage the palm in slow circles whilst talking to the hiccuppee about the weather or sumsuch bland issue. After about 2 minutes the hiccups will have stopped. Really.

Easy. Bet the person hiccuping £10 that they can't hiccup again. Hiccups gone. And no-one loses any cash.

in a classroom, our teacher would make the person stand up and told them that the next hiccup they did had to be the loudest one yet. The embarrassment mixed with anticipation would make them stop every time! Although somewhat cruel for the victim, funny and relieving for the audience!

There is only one sure, 100% positive way, of ridding yourself of those demeaning hiccups, an its not washing your feet in jelly whilst calling a pigeon a rat,
its a easy process that even a slush puppy could do.
the only catch is that its takes two of you, and as a pair you will have to work in such perfect harmony that even Bach would be jealous of.
whoever has the hiccups has to have their arms by their side, and the chosen friend or fo will need a glass of water (could be an innocent never tried), the friend or fo will slowly feed the water to the rather unlucky one of the hiccups, as they start to drink their arms will need to raise up beside them until their hands touch and arms are fully stretched pointing the gods, the trick is, to be steady, when the cup is quarter full your arms must be quarter of the way up, half full, half way up, an so on and so forth, i have never in all my life seen this fail, so i believe this is the one sure way of deleting hiccups out of your system, c'mon son

The best hiccup cure that was ever "done" to me was a school dinner lady who said " hiccups , you've got hiccups? I don't believe you, go on, hiccup! go on! hiccup! Now! see? I knew you didn't have hiccups" It totally worked.
Unfortunately once people know what you're doing it no longer works on them, but has led me to being able to cure my own hiccups within seconds, make sure you're alone and its quiet, I.e nothing to distract you,(leave the room if necessary,mute the TV ) close your eyes and concentrate on trying to hiccup as much as you can, e.g, tense your diaphragm and stomach muscles as if to emulate a hiccup, breathe all your air out, hold your breath and jerk your diaphragm up as you do in a hiccup. Is important at first that you have silence, no one watching you and can REALLY concentrate on TRYING to hiccup as much as possible. If you do hiccup, see it as a victory ( you after all, have been TRYING to hiccup) and keep going. Its kind of reverse psychology on yourself. You should hiccup much less frequently, and if you stop doing this before your hiccups do it should become much more frequent almost instantly . When they seem to have stopped , keep concentrating keeping your stomach and diaphragm tight and take slow, measured breaths, after 3 or four you should be fine and they should not start again. With much practice , I can now stop hiccups almost instantly, ( i.e before the second hiccup happens)just by closing my eyes for a few seconds and tensing my stomach muscles. It sounds like a lot of work , but lets face it, what else are you going to do while you have hiccups?

Scare the living daylights out of someone and they stop hiccuping almost straight away. Try an air horn!

Ask the person to think of the last time they saw a white horse - it actually works!!!

Tell he person with the hiccups to stand up, take a deep breath in whilst raising their arms above their head and it should work.

This method never fails!

Step one: Close your eyes
Step two: Tap your heels together three times
Step three: Think to yourself, 'there's no place like home'

Just try it! It works every time!

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