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Goes over the surgery itself, answers questions you have, explains how long you’ll be in the hospital. Meeting the surgeon was actually one of the last things I did. Every program is different

Mine went over the procedure with me and let me know what clearances I needed.

Good Luck!

You should be good according to what I've heard. Good job!

Don't sweat it. Just do it and get it over with. The worse that happens is your surgery gets pushed back and you learned a hard lesson. The best case scenario you pass!

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Oh and just in case I'd hydrate the hell outta myself prior to the blood test. Couldn't hurt!

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If they are just doing a simple blood test I'd wait one week while hydrating the heck outta myself.... Take the test and pray to the powers that be!!!!

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You also might drink a couple cups of detox tea a day while hydrating yourself well while waiting to go in for your blood test. Wal Mart carries a good detox tea on the coffee/tea aisle called detox tea by traditional medicines

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The surgeon uses a "quantitative" test. It doesn't test nicotine in the blood (which can disappear in a few days) . Quantitative testing tests nicotine levels in the body and can tell if you had any nicotine in the last 3 months. Most surgeons require you to be smoke free for about 4 months prior to surgery. It's for this reason they use the quantitative test prior to testing. That's why if the if the surgery is important you NEED to remain smoke free. Not a cigarette here and there. Just remind yourself.... Everytime you light up.... It starts your 4 months OVER. IF I were you I'd take the test and be done with it. Maybe done with it. Maybe you'll get lucky but as a nurse I'm going to say I highly doubtful it. 4 months will go by quickly. Just keep reminding yourself when your tempted to light up.... What do you want be more? The cigarette or the surgery? This time it was cigarette.

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I had a urine test... and self tested at home to be sure I’d pass. It took about 8 days to pass the home tests and when I had the in office test, I hadn’t used NRT for about 15 days. You can buy the home tests on amazon for like 5 bucks.

To be fair, I was using NRTs like e cigarettes and hadn’t had a real cigarette in about 7 months when all this occurred... to be fair, I was heavily using the NRTs when I had to stop, so that could be why it took 8 days to get out of my urine.

I thought most programs used the urine test due to cost and that it could detect cotinine (metabolite of nicotine) for longer periods?

At any rate, good luck! Quitting smoking was brutal but absolutely the best thing I ever did for myself health-wise.

Try to quit now.. especially for smoking so little. The surgeon requires you to be smoke free min 30 days before they will operate. I am not sure if they will do another test closer to the surgery date just to ensure you havent started smoking again.

Thanks so much i went to my family doctor and ask him about this he said for me to wait a week or 2 to the test hopefully i will pass

For an infrequent smoker, 10 days would be a safe window for a blood test (usually). For a urine test, after about 4 days. Saliva tests are after about 4 days as well. The thing is, it depends on frequency over a long term, so it's probably best to plan for the worst.
There's an article on WebMD that breaks it down more, just search "nicotine testing".