‘You’ll never solve another problem again’: Man shares life-saving steps for when you’re choking alone, but warns the first thing people do actually makes it worse

TikTok user Ben (@benjhandy) is sharing important, life-saving steps for doing the Heimlich maneuver on yourself when you’re choking alone. But he warns that the natural urge to panic is actually the worst thing you can do.

This isn’t a situation where you can wait around. Ben points out in his TikTok video, which has already gotten 1.9 million views, that once you start choking, you have about five minutes or less to clear your airway. That’s a scary short amount of time.