nicotine levels

Wouldn't awareness of the levels of nicotine and other drugs that you are inhaling help you to cut down and quit? Or at least make you more aware of your activities??

because it does not stop smokers from smoking. in fact it gives wrong perceptions to both smokers and non-smokers. Non-smokers think that by choosing cigarettes with lower nicotine, they will not get hooked easily. smokers think that choosing cigarettes with lower nicotine cause less harm to their health so quitting is not necessary.

2007-10-15 05:50:20 by Vicarious

bit.ly - Trying to quit? A major study recently found that nicotine levels in cigarettes have increased, making it harder to kick the habit ...

Or if you know the levels can you give me them.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml /mm4819a3.htm

there is a chart close to the end of the page

2007-01-12 16:00:47 by coach

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I am a casual smoker and I am going to have Gastric Bypass surgery . My doctor thinks im a non smoker because I did quit for about 4 months. I recently started smoking again. They told me in the orientation that we would be tested for smoking through a blood test work up. I want to know how and what type of test is this. And how far back through these test can they tell you've been smoking?

When I was in graduate school I worked for a clinical laboratory in the toxicology department and this was one of the tests that we offered. You actually do not test for nicotine itself, as it metabolizes to rapidly. Instead clinical laboratories test for the metabolite of nicotine which is cotinine. There are several different ways it can be done. One way is by using a GC (Gas Chromatograph), GC-MS (Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer) or an Olympus (or equivalent). We used the Olympus instrument because it is cheaper and faster than using the GC or GC-MS, and most of your clinical labs that are doing high volume testing are going to use an Olympus as well to test for this. The detection limits and cut off limits will vary from lab to lab and from instrument to instrument, so unless you know what lab will be doing it (LabCorp, Quest, etc.) then it will be hard to back calculate and tell you how long it will detect the metabolite. It also depends on the half-life elimination, which is subject to your age, wieght, overall health and metabolic rate.

Go here to learn about the Olympus Instrument and what it can do:
http://www.olympusamerica.com/dsg_sectio n/product.asp?product=1003

If they take a blood sample, then chances are Radioactive Immunosassay testing will be used instead of the Olympus (which is usually a urine based screen).

Go here to learn about different methods and their detection limits:
http://www.questdiagnostics.com/common/s itesearch/jsp/cm_ss_srch.jsp

2009-09-03 23:56:43 by sarah

also 95% of chemicals produced by the fag go into the air, only 5% are inhaled

2009-03-07 13:22:24 by Jay S

“Light” cigarettes can deliver the same levels of tar and nicotine to smokers as regular cigarettes. How have cigarette companies advertised this fact?

choices:
1. By putting it in really tiny type at the bottom of cigarette packs.
2. By not saying anything.
3. By advertising them as less harmful anyway!
4. By apologizing.

can anyone help?

Cigarette companies sell a product that is the number one cause of death in America and get away with it, people who smoke light and ultra light cigarettes often will get lung cancer starting deeper in the lungs due to the habit of inhaling more to get the smoke out of the cigarette. Even with packs going for 6 bucks here in Florida people are still paying hard earned dollars to slowly kill themselves. The light and ultra light cigarettes are just as dangerous as regular cigs, when the Government bans the use of those labels they will just switch to a new labeling tactic.

2009-07-21 13:43:05 by Tyler