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I can stop hiccups the moment I notice I have them, usually after the second hiccup. It started as a conscious effort to change the breathing rhythm through diaphragmatic breathing, now is almost like a reflex action.
whew, nice. I can't do this. I can stop the sneezing reflex though
It's pretty easy actually. When you want to get rid of the hiccups, make a conscious effort to have a hiccup, and then suddenly you can't.
It's why all those wives tale techniques work. Scaring people? Drinking water weird? Having your head upside down? It's the part after that works, where after someone has you do their flavor of weird hiccup ritual, they then look at you all expectedly and wait for you to try and hiccup. Then suddenly you can't. You're trying, but now it's a conscious effort, and it's really hard to hiccup when you're actually focusing on it.
I'll see of I can apply this technique next time. Cheers !
That one is hard! For me it's the same level as a yawn.
It's so frequent that I guess it was inevitable for me to learn how to quell it
I do the same thing.
My wife and I joke that we found my mundane superpower. When she gets hiccups, if I go embrace her, they stop almost immediately. Otherwise, they'll persist for fifteen minutes.