screening for cigarettes

[solo]

I'm a cigarette smoker I told the person who screen me on the phone that I was not . When I go for my screen will they check me to see if I smoke cigarettes and if so how will they check? By blood test or by mouth . Has any one every did a study at parcel that was not for cigarettes smoker.

[Deleted]

They'll check by blood test.

[sam9009]

Which study are you screening for?

[antecubital]

May 15, 2013 18:15:52 GMT -5 solo said:

I'm a cigarette smoker I told the person who screen me on the phone that I was not . When I go for my screen will they check me to see if I smoke cigarettes and if so how will they check? By blood test or by mouth . Has any one every did a study at parcel that was not for cigarettes smoker.

It would be a mistake to tell them you ARE a smoker just to get into a smoking study, because you will then be listed in their files as a smoker which, most studies being only to non-smokers, would probably exclude from a lot of good studies. Better off sweating it out and giving up the habit for good.

[dextermorgan]

antecubital - Your reading comprehension skills need some serious work. You somehow read the exact opposite of what the OP stated.

[antecubital]

May 16, 2013 21:33:39 GMT -5 antecubital said:

May 15, 2013 18:15:52 GMT -5 solo said:

I'm a cigarette smoker I told the person who screen me on the phone that I was not . When I go for my screen will they check me to see if I smoke cigarettes and if so how will they check? By blood test or by mouth . Has any one every did a study at parcel that was not for cigarettes smoker.

It would be a mistake to tell them you ARE a smoker just to get into a smoking study, because you will then be listed in their files as a smoker which, most studies being only to non-smokers, would probably exclude from a lot of good studies. Better off sweating it out and giving up the habit for good.

I understand that the OP is a smoker who wants to get into a non-smoking study, and if that's the case, he/she is better off quitting in to pass the inevitable lab tests for nie/ine. Looking back, I realize that I was bringing up an important point that might be relevant to the OP in the future, which is that if yhe/she IS a smoker and admits at screening/phone-screening it in to get into a smoking study, he/she will be listed in the clinic's files as a smoker, and probably be banned from future non-smoking studies. That's relevant because most studies are far and wide for non-smokers. So as a "non-smoker", the OP would have much better chances of getting a study than as a smoker.

[dextermorgan]

yeah right banned...parexel considers you a non-smoker if you say you haven't smoked for 60-90 days....and its detectable in tests way less time than that depending how much you smoke. parexel ain't banning anyone, that place is a revolving door of studies. last time i was there they ran out of what they needed to test for nie use, and ended up letting a guy stay even though they couldn't check his blood.

[antecubital]

Sept 5, 2013 17:58:32 GMT -5 dextermorgan said:

yeah right banned...parexel considers you a non-smoker if you say you haven't smoked for 60-90 days....and its detectable in tests way less time than that depending how much you smoke. parexel ain't banning anyone, that place is a revolving door of studies. last time i was there they ran out of what they needed to test for nie use, and ended up letting a guy stay even though they couldn't check his blood.

You've got me on the facts, dextermorgan. I should have said "excluded" from non-smoking studies, not banned from all studies. My mistake.

[dextermorgan]

just saying, Parexel is not very strict at all.

[jjm]

THEY DONT TEST BY BLOOD. SOMETIMES I DONT THINK THEY TEST AT ALL. WHEN THEY DO ITS BY URINE.