Mix honey (spoon or two) with warm milk or tea, and drink it slowly.

Coughing is mostly caused by external factors, as smoking. If you smoke, you should quit or limit it.

There is possibility of lung illness (inFLUenza, bronchitis) at long lasting cough. For persistent coughing, you should see MD.

You can google 'lung illnesses', and look at individual lung illness, and compare descriptions on Internet to your condition.

I don't know any tricks to stop coughing.

If you're coughing, it's for a reason, so you DON'T want to stop it, your body is fighting something. You can drink honey and lemon tea to soothe the throat and while your doing that you need to try and find out WHY your coughing and try and treat that. i.e. treat the cause not the symptom.

I love to create my own healing drinking teas. Drink a lot of water, that is very common and well known among Chinese people. But, as I say, I love to incur into new teas, combinations of aroma and taste. I just discovered the ostmanthus. a very useful, aromatic tiny yellow flower with a high benefit for cold issues including the coughing. Well, at least this is what I believe. I add to my barley, honey lemon tea, and 2 to 3 spoons honey tea. This combination would leave my lungs in a great state of relaxation. Choose your own combination and let us know how do you enjoy it and how does it help you. Get better anyway!

Edit: you still need to go to a local doctor to prescribe you an antibiotic. It's very helpful and will put your coughing faster. As of the Influenza, don't worry. You wouldn't be asking questions here, had you been suffering from it. It's very fast killing issue.

  Try drinking a bottle of warm Guinness every night. Old remedy recommended to an aunt of mine by a doctor many years ago. My mother also swears by it.

no woman has ever coughed after kissing me.

drink lukewarm tea. vita c and zinc daily. also try some halls

there is a chinese herbal medicine mixed with honey and thicker than molasses that works pretty good, its expensive for china 33 rmb for the big bottle

chuan bei pi ba gao, they sell smaller bottles but with pollen and pollution, probably should splurge on the big bottle.

Chicken soup 

Ok maggie, here's the "trick" to stop coughing. There is really no effective medicine that will stop that itch that makes you want to cough. The fact is that carbon dioxide is the best natural cough suppressant on earth. Your body actually makes it! I had the same problem as you and have had it on and off maybe each 6 months. Weather changes I presume.

1. Lay on your tummy.

2. Hold your breath for as long as you can.

3. Allow the expended breath out through your nose in short spurts.

4. Take another breath

5. Do it again

You can actually feel that 'wanting to cough' feeling dissipating while you do this. The more you do it the less the feeling of wanting to cough occurs. This gives your chest a bit of a break as well. When I was told this I disbelieved. But it works.

Decongestant medicines are ok for breaking up that sharp, dry cough but to stop you coughing? Nope, there is nothing that is a proven remedy.

Give it a go. Can't hurt you right?

Blow your nose and make sure you get all the things that are causing this coughing and sneezing.....after that go take a warm shower and drink plenty of water!

My cough is Improving,I'd say,Honey helps me.

Thanks so much for everyone's advice.

honey and warm water