Feel pretty dumb being a veteran smoker...

ok so I feel kinda dumb being a veteran smoker and askin this but I've never had to take a drug test before...:&
anyway I found out exactly two weeks ago I'd have to take a urine test for my new job and I havent smoked since then, before I found out about it I smoked about 4-5 days a week. I've been drinking water like crazy, like 2 gallons today and was wondering what else I could do on such short notice and my odds of passing. Thanks for your help Peace.

 

I don't think drinking a lot of water beforehand really helps.... the whole point in drinking water is to dilute it so it can't be detected, right? So it would really only help to drink a lot the day of the test. But make sure you go to the bathroom in the morning before you take it. You're first pee pee is all concentrated and gross or something. Also, you can drink too much water and get sick. Bad. I don't know what happens, but my gym teachers always got freaked out by it.
Good luck!

 

i think you should be fine as long as you haven't been smoking in the last 2 weeks. drink water.

your from boston, thats cool. i am too!


meh, woot woot!

 

Well i can help you out here. Urine testing has been a part of my life for the past 6 months and i've had many close encounters. Now depending on your weight and your motabolism you should be fine , but if your worried i would take a jog, you can sweat out thc a lot faster and piss it out. Go for a job and get a good sweat going .....2 weeks is more then enough time

30 days is for the drastically over weight and the lazy guyz out there if your an active guy i wouldn't be worried ..i've gotten it out in 4 days all naturally
hope i helped

 

Heres what you need to do, makes sure you eat a diet consisting of food thats low in fat, high in protien, high in carbs. Instead of water drink lots of cranberry juice, and *ironically* lots of beer.

Take some multivitamins, and make sure they have B12 in them. And the best thing you can do is what FerrisBueller suggested and go jogging. The reason pot is detectable for so long in drug test is because THC binds to fat and hemoglobin in your body, the best thing you can do is something that will make you sweat, and raise your metabolism. Jogging!

 

water is not jsut used to dilute urine. drinkning water lots helps the body get rid of chemicals. water aids the osmosis in many organs too. but yeah, its not jsut for diluting, thats jsut another benefit.

 

There's some good advice on here. Definitely work out; THC is stored in the fat cells (I'm almost positive).

 

Yeah what he said. But with this added to it:

Don't work out the day of the test, or for one or two or three days before it. Working out pulls the fats out of the cells (and the THC with it) into the blood stream, but you want to make sure you have as little THC floating around your blood the day of your test (obviously). So those last few days, sit around and be lazy, drink plenty of water (don't over-do it though, you don't need to). I don't know when your test is, but I've heard that it can take a month for the body to completely rid itself of THC for heavy users. If you follow Lodui's advice and mine, and especially if you have a few days to work with, you should be fine. Let us know how it goes.

 

You dilute your blood, which can make you light headed and faint, especially if your playing sports or being active. Plus, you can get cramps when your stomach cells become saturated with water, and that's never fun.

 

There is no fool-proof method. I don't care what any of you say....

There's only one 100% method. TIME.

Just drinking lots of water won't cut it. Many drug testing protocols test for excessive urine dilution, not simply by looking at color, but by measuring urine creatinine levels, urine PH, and urine specific gravity. If you drink a gallon of water on your test day, this sticks out like a sore thumb. You can dilute your urine below the THC-COOH (a THC metabolite) ng/ml cut-off, but the trick is to do that without also giving evidence that you've diluted your urine. The best and most reliable way to pass a urinalysis is by using clean urine stored in a heated bladder.

 

you should be fine but if you want go down to the pharmacy and by some golden seal but i think you will be fine without it

 

Don't go TOO heavy on the water, it can kill you if you drink too much believe it or not. 2 litres a day is more than enough for anyone, a bit more maybe if you work out or exercise a lot.

Is drug testing for jobs common in the U.S? cos you all seem fairly knowlegable about the subject and i've heard it mentioned on previous threads, whereas i've never heard of it over here, except maybe for the armed forces.

 

Yeah, drug testing is very common over here. Unfortunately.
Most headsjops sell drinks that will help you pass a drug test. They are a little on the pricey side but we are talking about your job here. It would probably be worth the money to buy one.

Water, excercise, B vitamins, goldenseal, cranberry juice are all good. You will probably be OK with just those.

 

It's because too much extra water in your system flushes the salt and electrolytes out of your body. It can make you very ill. You really shouldn't drink more than a gallon of water in one day.
Cranberry juice is something you probably should drink. Find the cranberry juice that has the highest percentage of juice. A 10% real juice drink is not going to help as much as a 100% real juice drink. I would also go with one with no or very little sugar in it. Not for detox reasons, but why do you need so much extra sugar? Especially if you drink the whole jug of juice. That's a lot of sugar, and LOTS of calories added into your diet.
I have heard that both vitamin b12 and niacin taken for like a week or so before the test will help, though I don't know if it is true, nor do I know how it would work.
Of course, you can always buy special detox drinks and in some headshops, in cigarette shops, or online. If these work, I don't know.
Are you sure you will have to take a urine test? Hair tests are becoming all the rage nowdays, I've heard.

 

unless your doing high intensity training, the likelyhood of water-intoxication (hyponatremia) is very rare...


meh, woot woot!

 

High instensity training is the last place you'd want to drink too much water. I'd reccomend less then 5 6oz servings of water a day. After that you want to drink Orange juice and gatorade. (powerade, whatever) You don't want to piss away anything of nutritional consequence.

 

a kid i know got in a whole lot of trouble and has to go to drug court and drug counseling now. he gets tested probably once a week, sometimes more, and he smokes all the time. he gets detox tea and drinks plenty of water, and he hasn't had a problem as of yet.

 

i drink roughly 2 gallons of water a day. even if i'm not working out, i still drink that much water. plus i drink other juices. on a 2000 calorie diet, you should be drinking atleast 64 oz of water a day.

 

What kinda exercise you doing fitzy21? I quit smokin' to help my cardio, and THC binding to fat also kinda makes exercise less effeicient. Its been hellish. :H I don't like to drink more then 36 oz of water per day, and I supplement that with lots of juices and gatorade. lots of sugar, but if you exercise a lot it really doesn't matter.

That detox tea, and anything else that helps you clean up is just bundled creatine, b12, and ninacin, which they overcharge you for the label. Save your money and buy the stuff seperate.

 

since i go to a military college, i have to be in shape, so...i do a shit load of push ups, sit ups, a cardio. soon, i will be hitting the weight room. i'm gonna be adding ON's 100% whey protein once i get acclimated to the weights, so i need the water. i had knee surgery, so i can't run yet, so i substitute swimming and cycling for cardio with running right now. i also work at a sports camp, all day in the sun, doing sports.

...but, i'm not in the shape you would think i would be in from the exercise i do. i got real lazy from my knee surgery and i'm now just starting to work out again. so i gained weight back that i had lost at school. but, now i got the motivation to get back in shape and a gym membership so that i can hit the weights and do more cardio, on the bikes, than i would normally do. this is just to get me back in shape for when school starts.

so yea....its a lot of work, but its worth it.