How to Stop Laughing when You Laugh at Inappropriate Times

1. Understand when it is inappropriate to laugh.

2. Check to see if others are laughing, or at least smiling a lot.

3. Think of something very sad and depressing.

4. Try pinching yourself or causing some other strong physical sensation, such as biting your inner cheek or your tongue (don't bite too hard!).

6. Force yourself to turn your laugh into a cry if the occasion is something sad such as a funeral.

7. Try exhaling as much of the air as possible from your lungs. This removal of the air will not allow the laugh to continue and make it stop.

8. If it gets really bad, hold your nose and cover your mouth with that hand.

9. Open your mouth wide and let the laughter out silently without smiling, this may look odd but it works.

10. Pretend to pick your teeth. Open your mouth wide and pretend to pick away at something stuck.

11. Use reverse psychology on yourself. By telling yourself something like, "This is funny! Laugh some more!" you end up finding what ever you were laughing at not funny any more.

12. Count backwards from 10 to 1. If this doesn't work, try again. Even forward counting can help.

13. Try biting down on one side of your lower lip. Then laugh all you want without opening your mouth. People will think you are crying and trying to hold it back. But after you are done, don't just stop. Inhale a few times as if you are hyperventilating.

14. Push your tongue against the top of your mouth, and at the same time pushing your mouth shut slightly.

15. Bite your tounge and pull your cheeks back....or if you are at a funeral or something serious, hold your hands up to your face and smile and laugh as much as you want but try to make the laughing sound like you're crying.

16. Close your mouth and breathe heavily through your nose, as if you are laughing, just without opening your mouth. It can be covered up as a cold or something of that nature.

17. Bite the inside of your cheeks.

18. Do a multiplication in your head. T

19. If multiplications are too much of a strain for you, you can always try other calculations, or just try to remember something, anything. Try to remember the names of all your friends and relatives, for instance, or trying to list all the songs of your favorite music album. Whatever uses your brain capacity and takes your attention away from the joke will help.

20. If none of the above work, then get away to a private area (e.g. a restroom) and let it out. Return to what you were doing after you're done