Altering your breathing cycle, which may calm your diaphragm down. Possibilities include breathing into a paper bag, pulling your knees to your chest and leaning forward,

drinking water from the opposite side of a glass while bending over, or holding your breath. If you do hold your breath, make sure that you don’t do this indefinitely.

Gargling with ice water or sipping cold water. If you do gargle, make sure that you don’t have so much ice in your mouth that you start spreading it around the room like a geyser.

Pulling on your tongue. But don’t pull so hard that your tongue comes out, which will lead to bigger problems.
Rubbing the back of your neck.


Laughing spontaneously. They say laughter is the best medicine. Maybe someone else hiccuping can get you laughing.