Urine Test

[thepheebster]

Can a urine test or a blood sample show if you smoke? Not drugs or anything, just smoke cigarettes? If so, how long does it take to get out of my body?

[jills]

if this is related to your above question...DO NOT BE SO STUPID!   If the conditions of the medical trial are that they want non-smokers, yet you smoke, DO NOT TAKE PART.   Not only do you risk affecting the outcome of the trial, but you could, depending on the specific trial, be endangering your own health.  Also, if they were to find out you do smoke, they would be within their rights not to pay you...hence a wasted 43 days.  I used to work as a research scientist and have run and even taken part in these kind of clincial trials.  I'm not trying to be mean, just to make you see sense.

Pheebster your posts on this site give a very, very poor picture of you.  I hope you're not as dumb as you seem.

[thepheebster]

That doesn't really answer my  question.

[Loosehead]

Ditto, Jills.

Depends on the person but I'm told that blood and urine wise there should be no evidence of smoking after about 3 weeks. But one chest xray will show all the tar and that takes years to clean up. Also if you are a smoker then in the trial, you'll be climbing the walls and will undoubtedly arouse suspicion in the medics and then your feet won't touch!

[Headtime]

Ahh the age old, "I'm about to do a drugs trial, and want to know how much contraband will show up in a sample" question.

Pheebs, as I said in your other post, I did a few medical trials and they only did drug/caffeine/alcohol etc testing on a urine sample.

So by the judicious drinking of many, many pints of water 12 hours before going in, nothing ever showed up.

However stuff (apart from alcohol) stays in the bloodstream much longer. So they will probably be able to detect Nicotine for up to several weeks. So of they test your blood
for banned substances, you will need to have stopped smoking for a while before going in.

Although I found the Nicotine cravings relatively easy to handle , as once inside the clinic there was no way you could smoke, so it made it easier to bear.

Good luck.

[karma20uk]

sounds like someones been caught puffing behind the smoke shed! did your parents threaten to take you to the dr's and get him to give youa blood test?

I wouldn't worry about it, there are worse things in the world than cigarettes. (says he who has just given up completely ;)   )

[karma20uk]

sounds like someones been caught puffing behind the BIKE shed! did your parents threaten to take you to the dr's and get him to give youa blood test?

I wouldn't worry about it, there are worse things in the world than cigarettes. (says he who has just given up completely ;)   )