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Patrick, It's urine cotinine you want; nicotinine has a T1/2 of c.30 minutes, while it's about 24 hours for cotinine. I suspect there are even people in St. Thomas's who run the assay. Nick Miller London On 12 April 2011 11:20, Walker Patrick <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Mailbase, > > We've had a call from one of our GPs asking for urine nicotine which has > been requested by a life insurance company to determine whether their > patient smokes. Does anyone know of any labs that offer this test? > > Kindest regards > > Patrick > > Patrick Walker > > Trainee Clinical Scientist > > St. Thomas' Hospital > Chemical Pathology > Westminster Bridge Road > London > SE1 7EH > ________________________________ > The information contained in this message and or attachments is intended > only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain > confidential and/or privileged material. > > Unless otherwise specified, the opinions expressed herein do not necessarily > represent those of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust or any of its > subsidiaries. > > The information contained in this e-mail may be subject to public disclosure > under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Unless the information is legally > exempt from disclosure, the confidentiality of this e-mail and any replies > cannot be guaranteed. > > Any review, retransmission,dissemination or other use of, or taking of any > action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than > the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please > contact the sender and delete the material from any system and destroy any > copies. > > We make every effort to keep our network free from viruses. However, it is > your responsibility to ensure that this e-mail and any attachments are free > of viruses as we can take no responsibility for any computer virus which > might be transferred by way of this e-mail. > ________________________________ > ------ACB discussion List Information-------- This is an open discussion > list for the academic and clinical community working in clinical > biochemistry. Please note, archived messages are public and can be viewed > via the internet. Views expressed are those of the individual and they are > responsible for all message content. ACB Web Site http://www.acb.org.uk > Green Laboratories Work http://www.laboratorymedicine.nhs.uk List Archives > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ACB-CLIN-CHEM-GEN.html List Instructions > (How to leave etc.) http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ ------ACB discussion List Information-------- This is an open discussion list for the academic and clinical community working in clinical biochemistry. Please note, archived messages are public and can be viewed via the internet. Views expressed are those of the individual and they are responsible for all message content. ACB Web Site http://www.acb.org.uk Green Laboratories Work http://www.laboratorymedicine.nhs.uk List Archives http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/ACB-CLIN-CHEM-GEN.html List Instructions (How to leave etc.) http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/