Can I Pass a Cotinine test?

I want to test my 14 y/o for nicotine. Does anyone know if these can be purchased locally? Like a pharmacy?

what sort of mother/father performs a drug test on his/her child

hey holier than thous, open your mind up and stop drinking the kool aid. What if the big pharmaceutical companies that you love so much that have been PROVEN beyond a doubt to kill people with their products were the ones behind the anti smoking campaign in order to profit from their nicotine replacement products?

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Ummm, one that cares about their health and well being! What kind of question is that? What kind of parent pays their 7-year-old for their urine so they can pass a test?! WOW.

i have 52 hrs right now before trhe va hospital tests me for nicotine in my blood.i just put a menthol cigg out. if i dont get the surgery i dont get va war disabilty of 100 percent rating. which is 3000.00 a month. with only 52 hrs im screwed right???????

I am 37. I have had hip pain for 5 years and the pain specialist who is giving me my pain pills will not give them to a smoker. People who say why don't you just quit have never smoked because it is hard as hell. I chose pain relief over cigarettes and have been trying for the last 2 months. I have smoked since Iwas nine. So to those kids out there, don't start the habbit, don't start. I wish I had never started. I quit drinking a little over three years ago and quiting smoking is so much harder. To the parents who are trying to get their kid to stop, I think it is kind of futile. They will not quit until they are ready. If you force them trust me it will not work. No matter how much bitching my dad did, it didn't fase me and I have never said I was goingto quit because I knew I had to be ready. I am only doing it now because I can no longer handle the pain.

I am at a few puffs here and there. I have not completely stopped but I think I have done well going from a pak a day to that. I do think that it is horrible to pay your kids for their pee. That is just wrong. It's true, what are you teaching her? What if she was smoking pot or doing other really harmful drugs. You just taught her how to pass the tests that could maybe save her life.

Anyway, kids don't start it is a horrible habbit and adults, I it freaking hard as hell to do, but I think if you do slowly and with the help of Chantix and you are trully ready in your mind to quit, you will be able to do it.

Good luck!!!

Cotinine is a metabolite of nicotine they actually test for. While nicitine has a half-life of ~ 2 hours, cotinine has a half-life of around 10 times that. You must think in terms of half-life cycles. Thus, if it takes around 72 hours, or 36 half-lives to rid the body of nicotine, it will take around ten times that to rid the body of cotinine. If you do the math, that is around 30 days, or one month.

there is no escaping half-life truths.

Hey, I have read all these post and it has been very helpful. I am quiting smoking. Using Chantix, and trying to get a job were they test for nicotine. Because this is anonymous, will tell you all that I have quit shooting meth 8 years ago and that was easier than quiting smoking. So  for the guest with the 16 year old. Quiting smoking is not as easy as just quiting!!! I am sorry for anyone that is addicted to it, but everyone thinks that it is so easy to quit that you can just put it down and walk away. You obviously have never had to deal with a strong addiction yourself. Anyways, as for the chantix question I have found that chantix should not show on any drug test because, drug screening tests generally look for opiates, cocaine, marijuana and amphetamines. Chantix is not in these categories. And having done the drug test thing in the past. Water and time have worked in the past for me so I will stick with the old school trick.

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sh*t, if i had parents like you i'd smoke too..

I have been offered a job at a hospital that does a continine test.  I quit smoking in January but started smoking small amounts in May.  I quit again 2 weeks ago and my test is in 1 week.  I am not trying to cheat the test I just want to know what my odds are of passing the test.  I have been trying to drink a lot of water to help flush all the 'crud' out and just hoping I quit soon enough to pass the test.  What do you all think?

I smoke perhaps three cigarettes a WEEK (gradually quit, I used to smoke about 4-7 a day for about a year) and I may have to take the test in about a week. I find this to be great motivation to quit once and for all. If I stop smoking altogether, drink a load of water and exercise regularly, will I be able to pass a urine test? 

It's unfortunate that people feel the need to police other people when it comes to a product that is, in fact, legal. Perhaps instead of griping about adults trying to beat tests that infringe upon their personal liberties, you should think about the behaviors that have suggested your son should smoke. Like maybe you're ridiculously overbearing and drug test him at home and that stresses him out? While you're at it, you should buy Internet blockers and filters, refuse to sign the Internet use agreement at his school, and remove the data plan from his cellular phone. Search his room for his diary, read it, and punish him for all the stuff he puts in it that he is too afraid to confide in you. Then in fifty years, when he's a pack a day smoker, you can feel good that you tried so hard to help him quit. PS, I think it's absolutely ridiculous that employers are testing for nicotine use while prescription drug addicts can take whatever "medicine" they want without recompense. Next, insurance companies won't carry you and employers won't hire you if you're diabetic, or if you drink too much soda. As a matter of fact, those should come before smokers... since diabetes is pretty much the number one killer in America. When does it end? The United States has become a fascist society with control freaks for citizens.

alian7 wrote:

I do medical studies for a living, I eat an entire bottle of cranberry pills durring a couple days , but am not sure if this works. i know i am being tested at one facility cause they use a dropper in front of me. The gallon a day for 4 days and no smoking at all for 4 days should work fine. I did it once for exactly 72 hours and I passed it. That was 1 gallon a day for 3 days and exactly 72 hours and I passed, but they said the time it takes to show up was a little slow. They assumed I had been around a smoker, but I still passed it. I think an extra day, like 4 is great. In fact, I screen tomorrow again and it will be 3 days and 12 hours this time and a gallon a day. I should pass just fine. I do know that menthol smokers takes a little longer, but perhaps it is because in other studies it is found that menthol smokers drag on the cigarette harder. I smoke a pack a day and pass after 3, but it was close. 4 days , I totally believe with gallon a day. I've been cheating these tests for 2 years. Studies are my job. The cotinine test this place uses is an expensive one. They really pride themselves on their test, but I beat it all the time. I experiment with the days and 72 hours was close.
I also go to walmart and get the 50 cent travel shampoo bottle, fill it with urine from a non smoking friend. ape it between my legs snug, like butt crack area and point the screw off cap forward. This works great. You can even use a 4 year old urine from the opposite sex and it works just fine. The key is, in the fridge, it will last no longer than 4 days, at room temp, 4 hours and it will start to grow bacteria in it and you might have to try again. In a freezer, a year it will stay good. After defrosting though, it will look merky until it is up to body temp so don't let the seperation of color after defrosting scare you. Do not microwave, run bottle, tightly sealed under hot water. Tape it in place. Leave taped for at least an 1 1/2 to let the bottle come up to your body temp or let it cool down to body temp if too hot. If it is flush with your body, it works fine. Really have to pee when you go into stall for test. unscrew cap and lean body forward. . Do not get any hair or touch specimen cup.
I have been cheating these for years and it IS POSSIBLE to pass these like this as well. I never want to quit smoking to screen at these so I use my friends , daughters urine. She is 7 years old. I pay her 20 bucks. SHe is getting rich off of me! lol I only quit if I make the check in cause i have to stay for weeks without cigs anyway, I certainly don't want to get busted after check in. Hope this helps. Remember, taped flush between legs works .Wear baggy pants.

excuse me but im trying to do a medical study I told them I smoke only 1 cigarette every couple days but she said i needed to of not smoked for 3 months. Can they tell all the way back to three months? I don't think so. If I cleanse with lots of water and dont smoke for a week, can I do the study? I have a couple of weeks though I think. Please please get back to me.  ***this post is edited by moderator *** *** private e-mails not allowed*** Please read our Terms of Use

I'm on probation and since I'm a minor they do that coinine test on me.. I really need a cigarette but I'm afraid of the random drug test getting me, what can I do??

As someone who has never smoked, with smoking Parents, both Asthmatics & 2 brothers, who died from Acute Asthma attacks, one aged 9 months & another 50 years, I'm just blown away in this day & age when people smoke.