How long does it take, once you have quit smoking, for it all to be cleared out of your system? -
If I was going to have a health screening how long would it take for the signs of smoking to be cleared from my body?
I-m thinking that I read for the most part about 30 days. There of course will be permanent evidence on the lungs and so forth depending upon how long you-ve smoked. I think the general blood wise evidence is thirty days depending on the amount you smoked.
Generally nicotine takes just 48 hours after you quit smoking to leave your body. Unfortunately drug tests usually look for a byproduct of nicotine call cotinine, which should normally last for a couple weeks up to thirty days after you-ve quit smoking. However, I-ve heard of some people who took a drug test 3 months after they quit smoking and still didn-t pass the test. It can also depend on how much and how often you-ve smoked, and for how long.
There are some things you can do to make the cotinine get flushed from your body sooner, like drinking lots of water.
There-s some more information on how your body processes nicotine and how to flush it from your body more quickly from the article below if you-re interested.
LIke the other person said, there are some things that take a lot longer to restore, such as the lungs that can take up to 15 years to completely be restored. Your heart starts to heal itself after about 8-10 hours after you have had your last cigarette and that nicotine in your blood is quickly gone in no time!
It really depends on your body system. You might feel hungry sometimes after you quit. You should read some articles in this websites which actually tells you more about it..
It starts within 24 hours and can take upto 6 months.. but body can recover till age of 35 if you quit before that.