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Passing Nicotine Blood Test
- Thread starter TracyJean
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There's a long thread about this somewhere on the forum where someone has to pass a cotinine test every year for work. I believe in the end he had to have had zero nicotine for about a week, but the exact amount of time is in the thread.
But you can't pass if you have vaped even a small amount within a certain amount of time.
I thought of him, too. Very detailed thread with great info.
You're a star, Huck
I just completely remember that thread for those just in case things with insurance. I'll be damned if they call me a smoker. Surprised they didn't test me at this job, but happy with that, just the same.You're a star, Huck
The whole thing is so ridiculous!
I couldn't agree more with that. It's absurd. We're no longer polluting ourselves with smoke and ALL those chemicals, and they still want to drag it down.
I have to take lung capacity test, since I'm a "smoker". It pisses me off so bad.
But the other option, isn't an option at all. I can forgo those test and get a discounted rate, if I sign an agreement to quit smoking. If I sign to their BS policy discounts form, I must submit to any test they deem necessary, whenever they think I need one. Or lose my policy.
I don't know where you keep hearing this, but I see you posting that a lot.
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You must have missed all the threads concerning how nicotine when vaped is not addictive, and is only addictive when combined with 7000 chemicals in cigarettes...
Yeah, I guess I did miss those.
When I quit smoking (and then, much easier, vapes), I found that my brain wasn't working any more. I could sit and watch the sun cross the sky and then go back to bed and my bipolar up/down had become zero/down. I had not felt this bad since I was 17 years old ... when I started smoking. I gave it 3 months to make sure I was making a logical (not addicted) decision and then took up vaping properly and my brain activity was back.
Nothing that has that big an effect on the brain can be non-addictive - that's just how addiction works. However, over Christmas I got food poisoning and just could not face the texture of flavor of vapes and so I didn't for 3 days. Never wanted to, not even the urge. When I was feeling better, I took it up again just as a rational decision without any cravings or intense relief when I did. Compared to the attempts at smoking while coughing and hacking which led to my quitting smoking, the addiction was undetectable.
So, I'd say (like many vaping studies) that the addiction is at least 95% less in that it must be there but I couldn't detect it.
Nothing that has that big an effect on the brain can be non-addictive - that's just how addiction works. However, over Christmas I got food poisoning and just could not face the texture of flavor of vapes and so I didn't for 3 days. Never wanted to, not even the urge. When I was feeling better, I took it up again just as a rational decision without any cravings or intense relief when I did. Compared to the attempts at smoking while coughing and hacking which led to my quitting smoking, the addiction was undetectable.
So, I'd say (like many vaping studies) that the addiction is at least 95% less in that it must be there but I couldn't detect it.
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