Content

• Steps
• Method 1 of 2: Metabolizing Nicotine with Water and Nutrition
• Method 2 of 2: Removing Nicotine Through Exercise
• Tips

The nicotine contained in tobacco products is fairly easy to remove from the body. When your body metabolizes nicotine, it is passed into your blood, saliva, and urine, where it can be detected. Typically, nicotine remains in the body for 1 to 4 days after smoking a cigarette. To flush nicotine out of your body, most of the time, you just have to wait, eat well, drink water, and exercise. It is because of nicotine that you become addicted to tobacco products, so the main advantage of detoxification is that you no longer have the desire to smoke.

Steps

Method 1 of 2: Metabolizing Nicotine with Water and Nutrition

1. 1 Drink plenty of water. Since nicotine is eliminated from the body in urine, the more often you go to the toilet, the faster you will eliminate it. The water will also dilute the nicotine that remains in the body. This will increase your chances of successfully passing a nicotine test (if you have one).
   • Adult men should drink at least 3.7 liters of liquid daily.
   • For women, this rate is 2.7 liters.
   • In some countries, employers are prohibited from testing for nicotine. Search the internet for information.
2. 2 Supplement the water with other healthy drinks. You don't have to drink water alone. Liquids without artificial flavors or added sugars, such as green tea or cranberry juice, will improve the body's water balance and speed up the elimination of nicotine in the urine.
   • If you want to remove nicotine from your body, do not drink alcohol, soda, or coffee. These fluids will not replenish fluid levels as well as water or juices, but will only introduce unnecessary chemicals into the body.
3. 3 Eat foods rich in antioxidants. Antioxidants help the body metabolize nicotine faster, thereby accelerating its excretion in urine or sweat. Antioxidants also help remove toxins (including nicotine) from the body. Here are some foods that are high in antioxidants:
   • leafy vegetables such as kale and spinach;
   • nuts, including peanuts, walnuts, and pecans;
   • berries such as blueberries, cranberries, and strawberries.
4. 4 Eat foods that stimulate bile production. Increasing bile production will speed up your metabolism. This will lead to faster elimination of nicotine from the body. Therefore, the more foods that stimulate the production of bile, you eat, the faster the body will remove nicotine along with urine and sweat. Foods that stimulate bile production include:
   • garlic and onions;
   • egg yolk;
   • vegetables such as radishes, leeks, asparagus, celery, and carrots.
5. 5 Fill your diet with vitamin C foods. Vitamin C speeds up the metabolism, which leads to faster elimination of nicotine from the body. Foods naturally high in vitamin C include oranges, strawberries, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, papaya, and kiwi.
   • Vitamin C can also be taken in supplement form. They are sold in almost any pharmacy.

Method 2 of 2: Removing Nicotine Through Exercise

1. 1 Go for a run. Jogging and other cardio exercises will speed up your heart rate and make you sweat. Together with sweat, nicotine will also be released from the body. Run long enough to get a good sweat. Depending on where you live, running can take a different amount of time. Run for at least 15-20 minutes.
   • If it's cold outside or you don't like running outside, go to the gym and run on the treadmill.
2. 2 Go to the sauna. The sauna maintains a hot, steamy environment that stimulates perspiration. This is the perfect way to flush nicotine out of your body. The more you sweat, the more nicotine will be released through your skin. Sit in the sauna for 20-30 minutes and then plunge into the pool. Then return to the sauna for another 20-30 minutes.
   • If you don't have saunas nearby, try to find another hot spot, such as a sauna.
3. 3 Quit smokingto permanently remove nicotine from your body. Stop using tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, pipes, e-cigarettes, and chewing tobacco to remove all nicotine from the body (and prevent it from re-entering it). When it comes to removing nicotine from the body, everything except quitting tobacco products will be only a temporary solution.
   • Smoking not only causes the development of nicotine addiction, but in all other respects is extremely harmful to your body. Quitting smoking will improve your health and reduce your chances of developing various types of cancer and other diseases.

Tips

• One cigarette contains approximately 1 mg of nicotine.
• If you need to be tested for nicotine, quit smoking at least 7 days before the test. Better yet, give up all tobacco products 21 days before the test.