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How to Cancel Your Hiccups
Okay, this is a little challenging to describe, it is something that I've always been able to do. I've tried to describe it to many people, but so far only ~3 people have successfully executed the technique.
First, practice a "false hiccup". Do this by mildly inhaling, then abruptly close off the inhalation somewhere in the throat. There should be some kind of "vacuum" effect that feels similar to a hiccup, you should feel this somewhere between your belly and chest.
Next, time this "false hiccup" precisely with a "true hiccup". If done correctly, the hiccup should "cancel". Using this technique, it has been many many years since I've hiccuped more than twice in a row.
- matthewwolfe 3y agoThis is the content I come to hacker news for
- codegladiator 3y agoWaiting for hiccups to try this out.
- dalmo3 3y agoSaving this for the next time I eat couscous.
- knewter 3y agoMy wife showed me that eating a spoon of peanut butter reliably cures the hiccups early in our marriage .
- dimmke 3y agoDig through your hiccups’ tweets from before 2016. There’s bound to be something.
- stevesearer 3y agoMy solution is to eat a heaping spoonful of peanut butter. No idea why it works but it does.
- znt 3y agoA few drops of lemon juice also cancels a hiccup.