Nicotine test- know how to do it

The life expectancy of smoker is on an average ten years less than a non-smoker. Nicotine makes a person slave of it and getting rid of nicotine is very challenging. According to the American Heart Association, nicotine addiction is one of the hardest addictions to break. Nicotine is generally taken in the form of cigarettes. Cotinine is an alkaloid found in tobacco and is also a metabolic of nicotine. It is used as a biomarker for exposure to tobacco smoke. Nicotine test makes it possible to detect level of smoke and which further describes the level of cotinine.

Rapid drug detection has introduced the COT One Step Cotinine Test Device which is a lateral flow chromatographic immunoassay for the detection of cotinine in human urine at a cut-off concentration of 200ng/ml. This test is proposed for forensic, non-diagnostic use only to determine the smoking status and use of tobacco/nicotine. This COT One Step Cotinine Test Device (urine) is a rapid urine screening test which utilizes a monoclonal antibody to selectively detect elevated levels of cotinine in urine. It yields a positive result when the cotinine in urine exceeds 200ng/ml. Thus want to check whether a person is taking nicotine than go for nicotine test through COT One Step Cotinine Test Device.