Don't have a direct line to the president? Don't worry. You don't even have to wait till your hiccups reach the level of national crisis to try the cures below. Most of these home remedies work by ...

Common ways to stop hiccups fast are to try deep breathing or to hold your breath ... Fortunately, there are quite a few cures to draw on. And the good news is, you don't have to rely on water to cure ...

It may be that hiccups are caused by low levels of CO₂, so raising this will inhibit the hiccups, or some think it's a way of distracting ... obvious many of these ‘cures’ don’t have ...

which forces muscles to contract in a way that stops hiccups. As for why slowly eating peanut butter sometimes helps people cure their hiccups, internist Tyler Cymet told The Guardian in 2014 ...