If hiccups were the cure for...

Benjamin was talking of cures for incurable diseases.  He asked me what would happen if the cure for cancer were hiccups?  I had to think about that one, how the quality of life would change in taking on a case of ongoing hiccups.  How would that rate in the world of ability/disability?  If hiccups were a cure, and a person must keep inducing them, how would a person hold a job, and what would happen if the hiccups stopped?