One question that a lot of you send in is how do I stop the hiccups.

If our email box is to be believed, there are thousands of you out there with the hiccups unable to find a solution.

On the line with us now is Mike, he says he has a way to cure your hiccups.

I have no idea when my mom told me this, but she gave me a technique that she uses for getting rid of

hiccups which is to hold your breath and to close your eyes and picture a door with wind trying to blow it open and then a giant finger holding it

shut.

And for some reason that's always worked for me getting rid of hiccups and also like sharing it with

friends and just people random people in my life that have had hiccups it's

really worked with almost everybody. Do you remember the last time you told somebody about it?

I was just chatting with my girlfriend about it and she brought up

our roommate, which is a good friend of hers I guess she had

hiccups for like 15 minutes a couple months ago and I came home and did it

with her and they just went away right away and she was drunk.

So that just solidifies the go-to thing.

Well, can you describe a little bit more what the image looks like?

Like this hand, is it the size of a person?

Is it in front of you or?

It's like the size of, what I'm picturing is like a door and then a hand about the size of a door.

So the very large hand. And it's not connected to anything. It's just like kind of a

cartoon hand holding this door shut. It would have to be a big hand, right?

Sure. Well, do you guys in your home growing up did

you ever have a problem where you had doors that were being

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