delta1 wrote:how long does it take for traceable amounts of nicotine to disappear from the blood...I guess the real question is: how many days before the blood test do you have to abstain...
Last year I gave it two weeks or so and passed. Trace amounts will pretty much always be present due to dietary intake. Potatoes, teas, hot peppers, eggplants all have a fair bit of nicotine in them. The cutoff level for a positive test is high enough that trace amounts don't trigger. Which is why I can get away with passing with just two weeks "clean"
Just sucks cause the test is in December/January. Cigars and beers were always part of the holidays with the in laws but had to drop it a few years ago.
Sunoverbeach wrote:That just sucks. Shouldn't be something they can mandate in my opinion. Is that health insurance cost driven or something?
If you test positive for nicotine you pay another $100/mo for insurance I believe. Might be more might be less. Positive for anything else you lose your job.