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I need to past this blood test within a month and I am willing to stop smoking but can I get a drink from GNC that will cleanse my system with in a day and will it work to get the cotinine out my system ( for the blood test? ) Please help!
They don't take a blood test - cotinine shows up in your urine.
they lived with a smoker, and blood levels of cotinine, a nicotine metabolite. Boys aged 8 -17 were found to have elevated systolic blood pressure ...
Info: I have only smoked 7 cigarettes in my whole life, and those were over a period of two months. Hated it, and never smoked again.
Now I have a cold/bronchitis and have to go to the doctor who may do a chest x-ray.
Is there any other way they can tell than what I said?
no idea on that one,
If you were a smoker like i am then they can tell by listening to your breathing
I do not smoke but all of my friends do. I have to take a blood and urine test on saturday for cotinine for my health insurance. I just read that cotinine can get in your system just from second hand smoke.
Cotinine has an in vivo half life of approximately 20 hours, and is typically detectable for several days to up to one week after the use of tobacco. The level of cotinine in the blood is proportionate to the amount of exposure to tobacco smoke, so it is a valuable indicator of tobacco smoke exposure, including secondary (passive) smoke. People who smoke menthol cigarettes may retain cotinine in the blood for a longer period because menthol can compete with cotinine enzymatic metabolism. Genetic encoding of liver enzymes may also play a role, as black people routinely register higher blood cotinine levels than white people. Several variable factors, such as menthol cigarette preference and puff size, suggest that the explanation for this difference may be more complex than gender or race.
Question 1 - How long does nicotine stay in the system?
Answer Nicotine is a short-acting drug that is eliminated from the body relatively quickly (i.e., within a day or so). However, the effects of acute nicotine withdrawal can be felt for as much as two weeks or more. In addition, the byproducts of nicotine can be detected in the blood for up to a month after you stop smoking. This is only of concern if you are in a situation where someone else might want to test you for the presence of nicotine or nicotine byproducts in your system. - Source: Blair's Newsletter, 7/10/00. Unfortunately, he didn't cite a source. Blair's web site is at http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com.
Jim Larson Comment 1: I've read elsewhere that nicotine can be detected in the hair indefinitely -- any hair that grew while you were a smoker. So after being quit for a few months, and if you are worried about a hair sample being tested, think about getting your hair cut!
Jim Larson Comment 2: The "How long does nicotine stay in the bloodstream?" question is a very common question on quit-smoking message boards. People seem to think that things will get much easier as soon as they eliminate nicotine from the bloodstream. In their minds, they think of nicotine addiction as being similar to heroin addiction -- just get over the agony of "physical withdrawal", and then cravings should be a lot less, and just "mental" instead of "physical". Well, that's not the experience of most people, at least not mine nor the hundreds of people I've spent hundreds of hours with on message boards and chatrooms. Most people say that days 2 and 3 (hours 24 - 72) are the worst. After that, it slow-w-w-w-ly gets easier, day by day, week by week, month by month.
The idea that getting nicotine out of the bloodstream is the express way to easy street leads many to prematurely quit using nicotine replacement aids like the patch. Rather, I believe that quitting smoking is a lot like quitting alcohol. Nobody who quits drinking for more than a day says, "Oh good, I no longer have alcohol in my bloodstream, so its going to be a lot easier now". Rather, getting through the first day or two that is required to get alcohol out of the bloodstream is only a very small first step in quitting drinking. Likewise, I believe that getting nicotine out of the bloodstream is a fairly small part of the battle to quit smoking.
So the next time you are thinking of getting off the patch or the gum prematurely, think more of the alcohol model of addiction (where getting the addictive substance out of the bloodstream does not reduce cravings much) and less of the heroin model of addiction. I believe that quitting smoking is primarily a mental battle against old learned patterns (we've learned hundreds of times a day for years that a puff brings relief, so it will take a long time to unlearn that). This slow unlearning of "a puff brings relief" is a much larger and longer battle than restoring the brain chemistry to nicotine-free equilibrium.
blood test for hemoglobin as an indicator of nicotine-ADVICE ...
Ok, i’ve been slowly freaking out about my pre-emp drug test for a while now. i bought qf and went to my pre-emp health screening this morning (where the test would be conducted, along with other stuff). the drug test was urine and so i passed of course, in the clear, right?
well, I DONT KNOW. the hospital i’m applying at will not hire you if you smoke cigarettes , which i do. the sheet said that the urine test was testing for drugs AND cotinine (nicotine metabolite). and i passed so i figured that was it.
well the next part of my health screening was getting blood drawn, the woman drew about four or five vials and said they were for tb, something else, soething else again, etc. i don’t remember what the other things were and i didn’t care, i was only listening to see if she said they were testing for drugs, which she didn’t- sigh of relief number two.
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Kids smoking on the sly, Srinis Dip is comingExpress Buzz - Jan 06, 2011
Kids smoking on the sly, Srini#39;s Dip is comingWhen a person smokes, the nicotine that enters the blood is broken into cotinine that remains in the system for 10 to 12 days, he says, adding the #39;dip#39; can and morenbsp;raquo;Times of India - Jan 06, 2011
quot;Nicotine in cigarettes breaks down into a chemical called cotinine. This stays in the blood stream for 12 days and is released through urine. and morenbsp;raquo;Planet Insane - Jan 01, 2011
Later, the women were tested through blood sampling, to determine the amount of cotinine in their system. Presence of cotinine, which is a by-product of and morenbsp;raquo;
Medical News Today (press release) - Jan 05, 2011
The study used a health questionnaire and a blood test measuring levels of cotinine, a nicotine byproduct, to detect whether women disclosed their smoking. and morenbsp;raquo;