Nicotine leaves the body rapidly. Twelve hours would do it, for all practical purposes. That is why the nicotine replacement therapies -- gum and the patches -- taper you off. You can't just use them for a few days and quit. You will go into withdrawal, the same as you would if you quit cigarettes cold turkey.
However, if you are being tested, the nicotine metabolites that the tests measure are around much longer.
You don't have to remove it. Nicotine doesn't stay long in the body. Once you quit using it it leaves the body. That is why smokers crave another cigarette.
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8 to 12 hrs
The half-life of nicotine in the body is about six hours. It would be gone, for all intents and purposes, in 30 - 36 hours.
nicotine is an addictive stimulant. It makes you think that you need it to feel good, therefore if you have nicotine in your system, and it keeps making you want more, and you take in more, then you will always have the nicotine in your system. However, if you stop using the nicotine product it depends on how much of it you consumed, before you stopped.
You're body needs at least 10 days to get rid of all nicotine, but what needs time here is the acclimation of your body to live without nicotine.
Nicotine leaves your body quickly, within hours. The metabolites that the tests detect can last for several days.
Nicotine leaves the body after about 48 hours, but cotinine a metabolite of nicotine might remain for up to a week. While the physical aspects of nicotene fade rather quickly the psychological addiction can remain for many months.
Nicotine does not show up on any type of drug test. accually they have nicotine test, and it usually takes 7-11 days.
The body clears nicotine very rapidly, in a matter of hours. That is why you need to smoke one cigarette after another to keep the level up when you are addicted.The problem after you quit is not the nicotine. It is the changes in the brain that have taken place over time that cause the craving, and it takes them a long time to return to normal. We're talking several weeks to months, IF you remain abstinent.
how long doe nicotine stay in your system if you stop smoking?
of course nicotine is the bad part of smoking...