how long does nicotine take to come out of your system?

Question

trying to give up smoking

Answer 1

in just 48 hours your body is nicotine free and carbon monoxide is cleared from your system. within 2 to 12 weeks your circulation improves and you will feel noticibly better and your risk of lung cancer soon decreases

Answer 2

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Nicotine is a short-acting drug that is eliminated from the body relatively quickly (i.e., within a day or so). However, the effects of acute nicotine withdrawal can be felt for as much as two weeks or more. In addition, the byproducts of nicotine can be detected in the blood for up to a month after you stop smoking. This is only of concern if you are in a situation where someone else might want to test you for the presence of nicotine or nicotine byproducts in your system.

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Good luck!

Answer 3

Look I'm a professional quitter. It takes 48-72 hours for the nicotine to come out after one cigarette. It takes about a month for the cravings to stop hitting. I tried to quit many times. I finally figured it out. Make yourself not smoke at work. Instead suck on all the peppermints, gum and sunflower seeds you can. When you get home, smoke, but only outside. This will limit your smoking to only a small part of the day, but since you're going outside, you won't want to smoke as much... especially if you have to walk down stairs to do it. The more peppermints, listerine, candycanes, mints whatever you take in the better. I used to carry a travel bottle of listerine in my pocket along with about 30 peppermints. After about 2 weeks of the no smoking at work thing, stop. replace it with those peppermints. Your breath will always smell so good, you won't want a cigarette to ruin it.

Answer 4

Hmmm... be interested to hear answers to this.... I was always told (quit smoking 23 years ago after 20 years of a pack-a-day habit) that the nicotine did not last long, hence the craving for more in just a few hours.... and that lungs begin to clear rapidly... but that first 3 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

I stopped one monday. By Wednesday i was coughing and in pain. I went to my GP to get Nicorette and had to wait two weeks to see the nurse. I had a cigarette and felt better. Even my lungs did. Then i went to see the acupuncturist. She said nicotine is the same as heroine in the sense it is physically addictive. She also said the first 72 hours were the worst. Acupuncture can help the discomforts but by then the urge to stop had passed. My brother in law stopped without the help of Nicorette. He felt lousy for about 2 months.
Good luck

Answer 6

I once stopped smoking completely. I had absolutely no craving to start again. However, I wouldn't recommend the method. I had an accident and ended up with a trachiotomy (it is impossible to smoke with a trachy!). I went through hell for what seemed like weeks. I think it was actually about six weeks.

Answer 7

It takes a total of three weeks to start feeling better, things taste better, and you have more energy than you can imagine, i should know i quit smoking for a year and then i started back. Big Big mistake

Answer 8

it is 48 hours. i smoke and one of my teachers gets me lots of info on stopping it including the amount of time it is to get nicotine out of ya body

Answer 9

about 48-72 hours. After that it's all psychological!

Answer 10

it takes less than 8 hours also the carbon monoxide which is very bad for you takes 24 hours to leave the body you may like to get help to give up patches are good as well as zyban talk to your doc or specialist nurse they should be able to help
way to go for giving up you have my respect