In our country, there is a law that the driver is considered drunk while driving if the concentration of ethanol in the exhaled air exceeds 0.16 ppm, and in the blood - 0.35 ‰. It is also worth remembering that the error of a professional breathalyzer, with which inspectors check road users, is no more than 0.05 ppm. However, any device can be tried to deceive. So, some drivers who get behind the wheel while intoxicated come up with various ways for the breathalyzer to show 0. What are these methods, and how effective they are, we will tell in our article.

Ways to cheat breathalyzer

Drivers who drank alcohol while driving have long figured out how to make the breathalyzer show 0. Here are the most common ways:

1. Improved ventilation helps a lot. To do this, you need to take a few fairly deep exhalations and inhalations. However, you should not hold your breath for a long time, because in this case the device will show an even higher concentration of ethanol. The thing is that at the moment of holding the breath, the air in the lungs is even more saturated with ethanol.
2. To make the result shown on the breathalyzer less than the real one, you can try to exhale a smaller volume of air than required. In this case, less air will pass through the sensors with a catalyst and, accordingly, less ethanol will settle on them, which will lead to a decrease in real readings. However, professional devices are able to determine the required amount of air that must pass through it. At this moment, they emit a sound signal. Therefore, if you blow less air into the device than necessary, it will simply not give a signal, and you will have to repeat the procedure.
3. In order for alcohol to be eliminated from the body faster, many drivers try to speed up the metabolism. To do this, before driving after drinking alcohol, the driver needs to do a light jog or any other physical exercise that will speed up the metabolism.
4. It is believed that if a drunk driver drinks a cup of coffee, strong tea or anti-hangover, the breathalyzer will not show alcohol in the body. Also for this purpose, you can take sorbents.

1. If a drunk driver drinks "Antipolizei" or chews gum, he will get rid of the smell of alcohol. In this case, the inspector will not suspect that the person has been drinking and will not require a test.
2. Some try to fool the breathalyzer with a menthol mouthwash. It is possible that in this way the traffic police inspector will be able to deceive, but this will not affect the readings of the device.
3. If the driver has to drive after drinking alcohol, then in order to reduce the rate of absorption of alcohol through the gastric mucosa, you can drink 50-70 grams of sunflower oil.
4. Some tricksters try to use soluble vitamins to activate the body's processes and speed up the removal of ethanol from the blood. However, it is not known how long it will take before the vitamins are absorbed into the bloodstream and begin to act in the body.
5. If you eat fatty foods, then you can ensure that the food will help bind free alcohol in the body. Some drivers advise eating white chocolate, which supposedly speeds up the breakdown of alcohol.
6. Other people believe that brushing their teeth, chewing bay leaves or some spices after drinking beer can cause the meter to show a lower ppm value.

Important: alcohol is completely eliminated from the body in 24-48 hours, therefore, the later after the feast you got behind the wheel, the lower the readings of the device will be.

The effectiveness of each method

Above, we have listed the ways drivers can fool a breathalyzer. However, the effectiveness of each method can be challenged or confirmed, which we will do next.

vegetable oil

Is it possible to deceive a breathalyzer with vegetable oil? The answer is yes, only if you drink it before drinking alcohol. The oil will cover the walls of the stomach and intestines with a thin film and will not allow alcohol to be quickly absorbed into the bloodstream. However, the oil works for a certain period of time, and after a few minutes you will still start to get drunk.

This method will work if, after drinking the oil, you took a small dose of alcohol and immediately got behind the wheel. Here it is important to have time to get home in 15-20 minutes, while the oil acts and does not allow alcohol to be absorbed. In this case, if you are stopped while driving, the breathalyzer will show zero, because you just won’t have time to get drunk yet.

If you take the oil after drinking large doses of alcohol, then this will only allow you to quickly remove the remaining alcohol from the intestines due to the laxative effect of the oil. But this procedure will not affect the concentration of ethanol in any way, since alcohol vapors are exhaled from the lungs.

Chocolate and coffee beans

If you chew coffee beans or eat chocolate, then you can remove the smell of alcohol and the inspector may not feel it, but you won’t be able to deceive the device. All drivers know what a breathalyzer is, and it will not work to change the concentration of ethyl alcohol in the exhaled air in this way.

If you drink coffee or eat chocolate with a hangover, then most likely it will make your breath fresher, and remove the consequences of a recent celebration from your face, so the inspector may simply not find a reason to use a breathalyzer.

Spices, chewing gum, lollipops

The ethanol determined in the body will not go anywhere from the use of various spices (bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, etc.), so it will not work to deceive the device. The same goes for onions and garlic. Not only will they not clog the fume, but they will also create such an ambre that will help, on the contrary, to suspect you of driving while intoxicated even faster.

Chewing gum, sugary candies, and hard candy can backfire. Due to their sugar content in the stomach, intestinal bacteria can be activated, which during the processing of food produce alcohol. As a result, the concentration of ethanol in the body will only increase. This will add 0.2-0.4 ‰ to the instrument readings.

Caution: If you use an alcohol mouthwash, you will only increase the reading on the meter because you will exhale more ethanol.

"Anti-policeman"

Medicines like "Antipolizei" are usually advertised as a quick way to fool the device. This medication really accelerates the removal of ethyl alcohol from the blood and quickly removes the hangover. Tablets have a prolonged action, which contributes to the faster removal of alcohol from the body.

However, to deceive the breathalyzer, it is very important how many hours after drinking alcohol you are going to drive. If this happens 24 hours after the last alcohol consumption and after 12 hours of regular use of Anti-Policeman, then the device will show zero.

Fatty food

If you have eaten beer or other alcoholic drink with fatty foods, this can slow down the absorption of alcohol into the blood. In this case, you will not get drunk so quickly, which will allow you to have time to get home before the first signs of intoxication appear. Also, fatty foods help to reduce the degree of intoxication, but a person does not sober up so quickly.

You can deceive the breathalyzer in this way if you go home immediately after drinking and eating fatty foods. It is important that the trip is not long, because after 20-30 minutes alcohol will still begin to be absorbed into the blood. The effect of eating fatty foods is similar to the effect of vegetable oil.

Ventilation

Since the breathalyzer evaluates the degree of intoxication by the concentration of ethanol in the exhaled air, after enhanced ventilation of the lungs, the concentration of alcohol in the exhalation will decrease for a while. If a test is carried out at this time, then the readings of the device may be half as much as before enhanced ventilation of the lungs.

Important: the device will show zero or its readings will not exceed the norm if the concentration of ethanol is slightly higher than the norm before ventilation. Otherwise, even though the readings of the device will decrease by half, they will still be above the norm.

The disadvantage of this method is that it is very difficult to ventilate the lungs before the test without being noticed by the traffic police inspector. If he notices this, he may be suspected of trying to deceive the device.

Acceleration of metabolism

You can significantly speed up metabolism not only with the help of physical exercises, fitness and jogging, but also with the help of a steam room. In this case, toxins and alcohol are removed from the body faster. However, it will not be possible to quickly purify the blood, so it will not work to deceive the device. This measure is suitable as one of the methods in the complex of procedures aimed at cleansing the body of toxins and ethanol.

Activated carbon and other sorbents

Any sorbents allow you to quickly cleanse the blood and stomach of alcohol and its decay products. You need to take the drug according to the instructions. It doesn't have side effects. But it will not be possible to quickly and completely remove alcohol from the body, so it will not be possible to deceive the breathalyzer in this way.