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Will the SSMI hiccups cure work *perfectly* for me?
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This market resolves NO if SSMI ever fails to cure my hiccup within a minute, YES if it succeeds every time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230308051229/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/scientific-hiccup-cures-hiccaway-straw-ssmi-breathing/673151/
> SSMI, as the medical profession’s predilection for abbreviations has it, boils down to a simple breathing exercise. First, exhale completely, then inhale a deep breath. Wait 10 seconds, then—without exhaling—inhale a little more. Wait another five seconds, then top up the breath again. Finally, exhale. Generally, you will find that your singultus is gone.
> With collaborators, Morris went on to conduct a study of 19 patients, 12 male and seven female, from the ages of 10 to 51, who “presented with hiccups ranging in duration from 20 min to 8h.” As they reported, in a second letter to the editor, this time in the Journal of Emergency Medicine, thanks to the SSMI technique, “an immediate and permanent termination to hiccups was achieved in 16 of the 19 patients (84%). Three patients were unable to tolerate the inspired volumes or the duration of breath holding.”

I guess I will experience 2-6 hiccups until market close (60 days). So far I just ignored my hiccups for 2-15 min until they go away. SSMI is a breathing technique that promises to get rid of Hiccups quickly. In a study, 16 of 19 patients reported success, with the remaining 3 failing to execute it correctly. In a dry run without hiccup I was able to execute SSMI afaict correctly.

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Had my first hiccup just now, did SSMI, and it stopped.

Second hiccup just now, worked again.

Third hiccup just now, worked again.

Fourth hiccup just now, worked again.