Most docs recommend not smoking for at least 24 hours before and major surgery.
how long doe nicotine stay in your system if you stop smoking?
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.
2 daysFor 2 hours
The half-life of nicotine is about three hours. The metabolites can last for several days. You must not smoke before surgery. In a surgical emergency, the reduced ability to transport oxygen that goes along with all smoking could be fatal.
It depends on the type of surgery.After a major surgery a week is minimum.
Nicotine is nicotine is nicotine. Gum is a type of nicotine delivery system. Thrive is a brand name. Just pay attention to the dosage. Nicotine gum causes severe hiccups if you swallow the juice. Hold the spit in for as long as you can then spit it out. 60mgs of nicotine delivered intravenously is enough to kill a 200lb man.
So long as its not too close to the surgery site.
It can be detected. The metabolite from nicotine will stay in your system up to 4 or 5 days.
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.
Cotinine levels are obtained (as this is a major long half-life metabolite of nicotine).
The nicotine should be out of your system within 3 - 4 days after your last cigarette. But the cravings for it will last quite a bit longer since nicotine is addictive both physically and psychologically.
Depends what type of surgery. Usually 7-14 days for major surgery.