With much deliberation and research, it has been determined that earplugs quickly disable the psychosomatic connections, and synapses are free to fire elsewhere... Earplugs help somewhat, and earbuds with music help with more reliability to disable connections and dissipate quickly the discomfort and anxiety.
With earbuds there is an added distraction, and it takes less than 5 minutes to start helping. Using earplugs is a reasonable alternative if earbuds aren't available. Noise Reduction Therapy