How long before nicotine is out of system?

[blueorchid]

My husband and I have to go through "biometric" testing to determine whether our health insurance will increase or not. This is being done through his employer and we have been told that we will still be considered smokers even though we both vape. So, if it doesn't take an extraordinary amount of time to get the nicotine out of our system, we are thinking of switching to a nicotine free vape temporarily. Not only are we being tested for smoking, we are required to have our BMI tested and checked for diabetes. Besides this practice being totally discriminatory (in my opinion), they are not even taking a health history into account. But there's virtually nothing we can do but comply. Anyhow..if anyone can give me an idea on my original question, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks

 

[Shy De]

Supposed to be about 3 days.. But we all carry metabolites as by products from.. Metabolism! I don't know if your tests will detect both? But 72 hours for nicotine

 

[Thompson]

Lots of water, Vitamin C & Exercise will help get it out too.

Looking around online there seems to be vastly different estimates.

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.

How does your body get rid of nicotine? Here's the process:

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.
The remaining nicotine is filtered from the blood by your kidneys and excreted in the urine.

HowStuffWorks "How Nicotine Works"

Half-life: 2 hours; 20 hours active metabolite (cotinine)

Nicotine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Measuring cotinine is preferred over measuring nicotine because cotinine persists longer in the body with a plasma half-life of about 16 hours (Benowitz and Jacob, 1994)

http://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/Cotinine_BiomonitoringSummary.html

Based on that, Shy is right with 72 hours being a safe bet.

 

[SickSilver]

I would drink some green tea as well, I works for drug tests...