How long did it take you to pass the nicotine test and how long were you a smoker?

My surgeon didn't test for nicotine.

I had my first appointment with the surgeon Jan 11th and quit Jan 14. Had a blood nic test 4/22. Idk when I'll get results back but I haven't smoked at all so it sure as hell better be negative lol

Edit; I was a smoker for 5yrs

I would guess yours will be Smooth as Silk by now. If not, you know you did yourself the best thing . You dropped a habit of 5 years and you deserve a big hug for that! Well really you deserve a salute but my right shoulder hurts too much to do a snappy one. Had surgery on it April 4th, my ortho went in to remove the hardware he had placed 9 years and 2 months ago when I severely broke my humerus and needed it surgically repaired. Since it already was an open instead of laproscopic incision, he decided to look around at the surroundings in my shoulder. That's okay, I told him at my pre-surg appointment " Do what you need to , because I know I need repaired!" Well he did take me at my word, instead of subjecting me to another surgery within a few months, he went ahead and repaired my rotator cuff. I am really glad within me he diff do THAT but it does remain painful. Most often by 3-4 weeks he has patients in PT and doing Wall walking, where you have your fingers climb up the wall. Not me, I am still on pendulum swings and circles, since I went through all that therapy after the initial fracture I have all my therapy papers to refer to. And since I am older, he wants to make sure everything has reknitted well before attempting shoulder level and above. Okay with me, cause that stinker is SORE, know that is the pain reason. Simply removing the hardware I would merely have a tender incision now. Who would have thought with my weight loss the harware would have become less stable and start rocking in there? Don't think of being fat in there. Anyway before the right arm flared up we had discussed repairing the Left. I had favored the right, So I did many extra things left- handed, and wore it down also. So we were on a "Watch and observe- but soon Repair" basis there, like this autumn after I hit my year bariatric recovery date. He has a peckish sense of humor, well I do too . Got a twinkle in his eye, said "Well how soon can I play with your OTHER shoulder?" Told him not for a while, you play TOO Rough! Stoll have to take pain meds, but don't make a habit of Norco, that reserved for when I CANNOT SLEEP, it's tylenol, ice or heat packs, arm propped on a pillow but many times sleeping sitting up in the recliner. Oh it's nothing more than others have suffered, they all Got better so
I will too
Today I go for more testing, takes a fair amount of maintainance as you get my age, and I swear everything that gets done comes with a " By The Way". When having an MRI to check the status of my thoracic aortic aneurysm, Thank God not enlarging, they discover I have renal cysts, not all that uncommon as one ages, then when I had a cat scan of my neck to rule out bad things happening there, an throud nodule, just smaller than operating size, further testing showed I have mutiple litter ones in the right lobe also. Not sure where we go next on that! I have gotten a huskier voice , is it pressure on the nerves and vocal cords from the thyroid nodule, too many years of GERD irritating it? or could it be something else? At least my carotid arteries are pretty good but when I had my endoscopy the 12th of this month, I have had 11, quite a story there, anesthesia at OSU got all "het up" about my noticable heart murmer, enough that they faxed my PCP, now I have cardiac retesting at 1 today. And I can't sleep because of shoulder pain, got maybe 3'4 hours of sleep so I'm posting on here. But you know, with all this, I am so much better off than I was before my Bariatric Surgery, at least I have made many specialist friends, so all these things will be addressed, I won't go in at Stage3' Stage4 levels where nothing can get done. And I am over 130 pounds smaller than my High Weight, dropped multiple sizes, smaller than I was 40+ years ago when I warms having babies. Don't recognize myself in the mirror, starting to look like Dead smaller relatives that I never knew I resembled. If it wasn't for getting a little wrinkled I would celebrate my Fat Shell cracking and falling away. I am about ready to go into 18s, I started at 28-30W, ? the varied styles as I get smaller, no longer have look for the largest sizes or go buy sweats from the Mens Department. Had jeans fall off the other day, luckily I didn't have my old Granny Panties on, had to invest in belts and I don't look when wear them like a sack of wheat with a rope tied in the middle. Oh things aren't perfect yet but so much better than once they were! Not under a death sentence anymore, believe I'll hang around for some more years! And I will be hoping to hear good things from you Too!

On 4/2/2019 at 2:35 PM, Brando_2019 said:

How long did it take you to pass the nicotine test and how long were you a smoker?

So I smoked for 4 years and I tested negative 3 weeks later. I vape 0mg nicotine now though and that has helped tremendously with quitting. I was a pretty heavy smoker too.

So I smoked for 4 years and I tested negative 3 weeks later. I vape 0mg nicotine now though and that has helped tremendously with quitting. I was a pretty heavy smoker too.

Did you quit vaping before your surgery too?