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I know that it does have an effect on the arteries. Does it have an effect on the immune system as well?
Absolutely it has an effect on the immune system- ciggarettes are comprised of so many poisons in addition to nicotine that the whole mess is an immune system load that compromises your ability to fight infection. Also, smoking causes arteries to constrict, providing for less blood flow and therefor oxygen throughout the body.
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I have to take a blood test for life insurance i quit smoking 2 years ago but occasionally smoke
nicotine as such is broken down into metabolites and stays about 1 week max
I have to take a blood test for insurance and want to know how long I need not to smoke prior to the test. Does anyone have experience with this.
Okay, here's the thing...
General consensus is that it takes about 3 days for the nicotine to be out of your system. However, the problem you may face has to do with what kind of test they do. See, the blood of a smoker has a higher ratio of red blood cells to compensate for the oxygen loss due to smoking. If you quit smoking you may have dizziness or jitters and things like that due to the fact that your body is actually getting more oxygen. It takes a while for the amount of red blood cells to diminish to normal levels. I do know that the jitters takes like 1-2 weeks to go away. I am not sure when your RBC count goes back to normal. I am not sure they can get an accurate test for insurance but I would just quit as soon as possible. Go to Quitnet.com. It helped me.
Nicole - for your information, I'm not a smoker. It's a scientific enqu
Nicotine doesn't stick around your body for too long. It has a half-life of about 60 minutes, meaning that six hours after a cigarette, only about 0.031 mg of the 1 mg of nicotine you inhaled remains in your body. (and every 60 min that number is cut in half)
Different people metabolize nicotine at different rates. Some people even have a genetic defect in the enzymes in their liver that break down nicotine, whereby the mutant enzyme is much less effective at metabolizing nicotine than the normal variant. If a person has this gene, their blood and brain nicotine levels stay higher for longer after smoking a cigarette. Normally, people keep smoking cigarettes throughout the day to maintain a steady level of nicotine in their bodies. Smokers with this gene usually end up smoking many fewer cigarettes, because they don't constantly need more nicotine
More specifically in snuff and snus, dipping tobacco.
Nicotine is one of many chemicals that can get into the body by various means. It can penetrate the skin and be absorbed by the tiny capillaries in the dermis. That's how nicotine patches work. It is even more readily absorbed by the mucous membranes, so when you put dipping tobacco or snus in the mouth you get a nicotine effect. The most rapid natural way of getting nicotine into your system is by inhaling tobacco smoke, where the nicotine is rapidly absorbed through the alveoli or air sacs in the lungs, returns to the heart and thence to the brain within seconds.
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