Apple method nicotine extraction experiment #0001

[Gunny]

How about using dried fruit? Wouldn't that pull the nicotine further in as it swells in the juice, so give more/better, perhaps?
Would actualy be a good idea to send this kind of result you have now to some lab where they can actualy find out how much nicotine it holds. But I guess that won't be cheap...

There might be another way. However if it is too high I think this test might be a little too late.

Rapid Nicotine Cotinine tests

[dnakr]

If I am reading this correctly, that test would only show if there was nicotine present, right? - not how much nicotine.

[windblown]

If I am reading this correctly, that test would only show if there was nicotine present, right? - not how much nicotine.

You're exactly right. I bought some of the test strips to see if all of the nicotine was gone out of my blood. I had been smoking straight Bickfords for at least a week and the darn tests still showed the presence of nicotine.

But there is no way to tell how much nicotine.....just that it is over the minimum level for detection.

[TropicalBob]

Yeh, we've been around that bush. Every fluid we use shows nicotine. The issue is "HOW MUCH nicotine" -- that's what we need to know in home experiments. If you find a test for that, Gunny, let us know. Many have looked high and low without success for some inexpensive way to do this outside a laboratory.

[dnakr]

You're exactly right. I bought some of the test strips to see if all of the nicotine was gone out of my blood. I had been smoking straight Bickfords for at least a week and the darn tests still showed the presence of nicotine.

But there is no way to tell how much nicotine.....just that it is over the minimum level for detection.

Really? I thought nicotine left your system within 3 days and you are still showing positive? Are you around a smoker?

[Gunny]

Boy! There were bees in that bush.

So intense, it was a feeble attempt at a little levity.

Sorry guys.

I also am quite interested in this topic.

[windblown]

Really? I thought nicotine left your system within 3 days and you are still showing positive? Are you around a smoker?

That's what I thought too, but I was still showing positive. I am around other people who smoke, so I can't rule out second-hand smoke as a possibility.....but I would be surprised since they don't smoke very much.

[dnakr]

With "Gunny" as your name - we may always take you seriously. LOL

[dnakr]

That's what I thought too, but I was still showing positive. I am around other people who smoke, so I can't rule out second-hand smoke as a possibility.....but I would be surprised since they don't smoke very much.

Thats funny, when my daughter had to do all the "tests" to join the marines, nicotine was one of them. At the time I had just switched over to the e-cig and my husband was still smoking. They thought for sure she would test postive - but she didn't.

[TropicalBob]

If we could find some kind of indicator that changed color with increasing/decreasing nicotine, then we could test known sources -- 24mg, 11mg, 6mg -- and compare the results to what we cook at home.