Tobacco Screening? How do I pass?

schuyler83@yahoo.com · Thu Jan 24, 2008 4:53 pm

I'm trying to get a job but they said I have to go through a tobacco screening in 2 weeks and if I don't pass then I don't get the job. I don't do drugs... i'm a social smoker and have no problem cutting off cigarettes all together and I really want this job. Does anyone know how long it takes to get this crap out of my system and how to pass this screening? Please help!

Thanks,

Brandon

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:01 pm

Nicotine doesn't stick around your body for too long. It has a half-life of about 60 minutes, meaning that six hours after a cigarette, only about 0.031 mg of the 1 mg of nicotine you inhaled remains in your body.

About 80 percent of nicotine is broken down to cotinine by enzymes in your liver.

Nicotine is also metabolized in your lungs to cotinine and nicotine oxide.

Cotinine and other metabolites are excreted in your urine. Cotinine has a 24-hour half-life, so you can test whether or not someone has been smoking in the past day or two by screening his or her urine for cotinine.

schuyler83@yahoo.com · Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:04 pm

So do you think that if I swear off smoking right now and test in two weeks I'll be okay?

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:05 pm

schuyler83@yahoo.com;763640 wrote: So do you think that if I swear off smoking right now and test in two weeks I'll be okay?

maybe, dont wanna say yes then u sue me for not getting yer job now do I:D

Post by **spot** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:44 pm

"Screenings can detect cotinine for up to 10 days in regular smokers of about a half a pack, or 10 cigarettes, a day, McAlpin said. Experts say it is unlikely that cotinine would collect in people exposed to secondhand smoke. " - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/ ... 4640.shtml

Your two weeks is pretty much on the boundary but you might scrape through. Or not.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 5:50 pm

I never heard of a "tobacco" screening for a job.

What kind of job are you applying for?

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:49 pm

Drink alot of water

Company's don't want to hire a smoker - survey states smokers more apt to be sick - time loss from work - costs high to insure , etc.

Just drink alot of water if you really need a rinse.

Patsy

Post by **spot** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:51 pm

It's a urine test Patsy, you're just adding to his solution.

KB. · Post by **KB.** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:00 pm

spot;763730 wrote: It's a urine test Patsy, you're just adding to his solution.

Beautiful.

doodlemom · Post by **doodlemom** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 12:39 pm

So...if one drinks a lot of water daily 2-4 days before a nicotine test and only smokes about about 5 cigarettes a day. Could they past they test simply by flushing with water those 2-4 days before the test and of course refraining from from any smoking or smokeless products? I am going on an interview next Thursday and I don't believe they will test at they interview but; she did say they do test, and I am sure that will be done once they extend an offer and I go in for the physical etc...I too want to know the best and quickest way to pass one of these tests. I think it is dumb to begin with, I know insuring smokers is higher but; put that cost on us instead of punishing us for what we do outside of work.

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 3:27 pm

Why anyone would accept employment with a firm operating such a personally intrusive policy baffles me. Has nobody any pride left these days?

FourPart · Post by **FourPart** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:56 am

I wouldn't have thought that such a thing would be legal.

Plus I was surprised to see the age of this thread being bumped

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 1:10 am

Some people register just to join into a specific thread because the topic's become pressing. This sounds like one of those.

doodlemom · Post by **doodlemom** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 8:10 pm

I don't appreciate you assuming you know me and why I joined. Pretty cocky of you, I joined for many reasons and I some how came across this thread and it fit my situation. There are plenty of threads I will join and follow. GEEZ DUDE GIVE ME A BREAK..I am new here and trying to get answers and just getting my feet wet. The right thing would be answer my question and be helpful and let me continue to enjoy the forum, because right now I feel like your hostile and not welcoming..Thanks for that!!!

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 11:40 pm

doodlemom;1460676 wrote: I don't appreciate you assuming you know me and why I joined. Pretty cocky of you, I joined for many reasons and I some how came across this thread and it fit my situation. There are plenty of threads I will join and follow. GEEZ DUDE GIVE ME A BREAK..I am new here and trying to get answers and just getting my feet wet. The right thing would be answer my question and be helpful and let me continue to enjoy the forum, because right now I feel like your hostile and not welcoming..Thanks for that!!!
I was saying you didn't look like a spammer, that's all. We get a shedload of spammers.

Instead of us answering your question, which is technical, needs a qualified medic to give an educated response, and could at best only get meaningless yes or no guesses from unqualified bewildered loons on a general forum like this, answers which would obviously have no reliable validity when it comes to the truth, how about you answer my question instead, since my question is answerable and you've informed experience which I'm interested in: why would anyone accept employment with a firm operating such a personally intrusive policy? Has nobody any pride left these days?

And, out of interest, how much paid annual vacation does this damnable money-grubbing capitalist employer grant, if you do land the job? How many days a year are you allowed to do your own thing instead of The Man's?

You're mistaking slavery for employment.

I don't know why you're wrecking your health with bloody cigarettes either, but that's none of my business.

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 6:25 am

Tyr: "meaningless yes or no guesses from unqualified bewildered loons on a general forum like this"

Hey! Youse better watch youse mout!

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 6:55 am

opps.

Post by **LarsMac** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 7:31 am

YEAH! I may be bewildered, but I ain't unqualified.

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:17 am

I appear, after many years of exemplary civil intercourse on ForumGarden, to have blotted my copybook. I retract "unqualified" and substitute "differently qualified".

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:19 am

Týr;1460691 wrote: I appear, after many years of exemplary civil intercourse on ForumGarden, to have blotted my copybook. I retract "unqualified" and substitute "differently qualified".

You stand by 'bewildered loons.'

Týr · Post by **Týr** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:45 am

AnneBoleyn;1460692 wrote: You stand by 'bewildered loons.'

Oh I say - it was a very limited observation. What I wrote was "meaningless yes or no guesses from unqualified bewildered loons" - only the people making meaningless yes or no guesses fall into the category you've raised your eyebrows over. It was meaningless yes or no guesses which the thread bumper invited, you'll remember.

AnneBoleyn · Post by **AnneBoleyn** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 9:15 am

Týr;1460693 wrote: Oh I say - it was a very limited observation. What I wrote was "meaningless yes or no guesses from unqualified bewildered loons" - only the people making meaningless yes or no guesses fall into the category you've raised your eyebrows over. It was meaningless yes or no guesses which the thread bumper invited, you'll remember.

No, I forgot already. I'm bewildered. Now I'm off to play 'Match the Loony Tunes Mugs' at our arcade.