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Smoking Cessation

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)

5. I smoked for 25 years. Quit and 4 days later tested negative.

Reply to mopinko (Original post)

Wed Sep 7, 2016, 06:43 PM

Sep 2016

They don't actually test for nicotine itself, but for Cotinine instead. It's a metabolite of nicotine... Stupid non scientific explanation is that the more nicotine you have, the more cotinine. Usually takes about a week of no nicotine for your levels of cotinine to drop to normal.

I've been cigarette free, but still tested positive because of the gum. There are additional test they can do to see if your using tobacco or a cessation product.

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anybody know how long nicotine stays in the system after quitting? [View all] mopinko Nov 2015 OP

If it's in your records, it's in your records Holly_Hobby Nov 2015 #1

the surgeon said 2 months. mopinko Nov 2015 #2

8 hours: Remaining nicotine in your bloodstream has fallen to 6.25% of normal peak daily levels Babel_17 Apr 2016 #3

thanks. mopinko Apr 2016 #4

I smoked for 25 years. Quit and 4 days later tested negative. Glassunion Sep 2016 #5

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