blood test nicotine

my dad thinks i been smoking and he said he was going to go and have a nicotine blood test done on me how many days can that blood test go back on?

if it can go back more than 2 days r there any way that i can make it go out of my system faster?

From 85–90 percent of nicotine in the blood is metabolized by the liver and excreted from the kidney rapidly. The estimated half-life for nicotine in the blood is two hours. However, smoking represents a multiple dosing situation with considerable accumulation during smoking. Therefore, it can be expected that blood nicotine would persist at significant levels for six to eight hours after smoking stopped.

Trace nicotine can stay in your system for 20 or more days, but usually if the employer is testing using urinalysis, then your system is likely to show clear of nicotine in two to three days if you are an occasional user, or when you use, you use a small amount , or your history of using tobacco is less than six months. Your system is likely to show clear of nicotine in three to five days if you use once or twice a week, or when you use, you use a moderate to large amount , or your history of using tobacco is more than six months but less than a year. If you use most days of the week, or when you use, you use a moderate to large amount , or your history of using tobacco is greater than one year, then your system is liely to show clear of nicotine in five to ten days. If the employer uses a hair test, the amount of time for your hair to show clear increases, but most employers don't use that method because it's pretty expensive. You can help flush nicotine more quickly from your system by drinking lots of citrus beverages, high in Vitamin C during the first several days along with moderate amounts of water; the vitamin C speeds up the metabolism of nictoine by your body, and of course the fluids will help with the excretion of that metabolized nicotine through your urine.

2007-12-26 18:12:55 by Travis W

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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

I smoke shisha , if I stopped smoking it today , for how long would my blood test positive for nicotne ?

I'm sorry, but I'm afraid it would be a very long time until there was no nicotine in your blood.

Maybe a few weeks or months. There is really no way to be sure.

2007-10-20 15:26:40 by KSAGirl

My life insurance company wants to do a blood test for, among other things, nicotine. I quit nearly five months ago, will it still show up? I'd like to be considered a non-smoker, and I have no intention of starting again.

About 30 to 60 days.

2006-04-08 17:55:12 by tenrclef

I quit smoking the end of June. Before that I only smoked about a pack a week. This weekend I smoked 4 cigarettes. I'm getting a blood test in the fall to test for nicotine. Will I be ok or should I try to cleanse my system? I'm also around secondhand smoke.

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.

2007-09-09 15:50:11 by jordy78