From that tenth pint to just one shot of sambucca, you usually find that there's one of two scenarios that happen when you're out drinking - you either stop drinking or well, you don't.

It is usually thanks to one particular drink where the sobriety line gets passed (and fairly quickly - something similar to driving down a Formula One track with your enthusiastic friends on the side lines, cheering). There are rumours on how to stop the hangover from hell; some are exactly that, rumours; unfortunately hangover cures tend to be based on obscure, foreign web pages or stemmed from a Chinese Whisper-style conversation.

From eating a big, fat fry up to drinking egg nog, hangover cures are discussed across the internet in forums, on tweets, on Tumblr and even ironically, in the pub. Have you ever felt that dread when you know you shouldn't have had that drink? Or the guilt that hits you before the headache the next morning?

From my own personal experience, Prosecco and Champagne give you the worst type of hangovers. Apparently it's because 'the bubbles go straight to your head' which is true. But then again, cider is also meant to give you bad hangovers, wine dehydrates you and some shots could be used as a form of torture... do you see the pattern here?

So, after trolling the internet, asking co-workers, friends, family members, drinkers and generally using my own experience from drinking (probably a little too) often, I have devised how you could maybe reduce the hangover and feel ever-so-slightly better (but it’s no guarantee so please don’t sue…). The results are as follows:

• DON’T DRINK!!!
• Cry. Whether it’s the shame or all that Jägermeister, sometimes a good cry is just what you need.
• Don’t mix, unless you enjoy feeling like you’ve been injured in a rugby scrum. Some can handle swapping from beer to wine to vodka to (eventually) water… I admire you.
• Always eat - even if you have to force down some form of fruit, a few spoons of cereal or a kebab, you need to eat.
• Salty foods: Apparently, drinking reduces the salt in your kidneys, which is why you crave fatty, bad-for-you but oh-so-tasty food. Give into temptation!
• McDonald’s, for the reason above (and because I can’t write a hangover blog without mentioning good ol’ Maccy D's…).
• Drink plenty of water: alcohol dehydrates you, which is why you need to drink. Apparently two glasses of water before bed is the key.
• Going for a run: Following a bucket full of alcohol and a greasy takeaway, a run is a good way to get some fresh air (and release some endorphins… if you can get out of bed). Did you know that alcohol is a depressant? GET THOSE ENDORPHINS OUT TO PARTY, OK?
• Coca Cola: Full fat coke will give you a sugar rush but don’t try it if you’ve been using it as a mixer from the night before. Just don’t.

Okay, so they are all probably cures you’ve tried plenty of times, but here are some that you might not have known:

• Bananas: apparently alcohol reduces the levels of potassium in your body. Bananas can restore it
• Sex: did you know that sex has been reported to cure headaches?
• Bread: if you’re broke from a night on the tiles, a slice of bread apparently soaks up the alcohol, and is significantly cheaper than that greasy pizza (which was probably previously frozen)
• According to research, honey can cure a hangover because the Fructose breaks down alcohol into harmless by-products
• Tomato juice: this can restore your blood sugar levels and replenish electrolytes, leaving you feeling completely rejuvenated
• Lucozade: it used to be available in hospitals for ill children so a hangover is nothing, right?!
• Rubbing lemons slices on your armpits, yeahhh, maybe we’ll leave that one...

If you have tried all of the above, there are just two options left. You can either take a few pain killers before disappearing back into your pit or, well… hair of the dog.  Yep, as I said, you either stop drinking or well, you just don’t… Another glass of prosecco please…

PS. Anyone got any lemons?