The work aims to investigate the release behavior of cooling agents in tipping paper for cigarettes, so as to provide reference for clarifying the storage period of tipping paper for cigarettes. A gas chromatography method for determination of three cooling agents in the tipping paper was established by optimizing the pretreatment conditions of the sample. On this basis, the release behavior of each cooling agent under room temperature storage conditions was investigated, and the zero-level, first-level, Higuchi and Korsmeyer-peppas kinetic models were selected to fit the release behavior of each cooling agent. The results showed that the optimal extraction process conditions for cooling agents were shaker-assisted extraction, ethanol extraction, the solution volume was 25 mL, the extraction temperature was 30 ℃, the rotation rate was 160 r/min, and the extraction time was 25 min. After 130 days, the release rate of (-)-menthone and L-menthol in the tipping paper reached 78.04% and that of (-)-menthyl lactate was only 39.74%. The release behavior of the three cooling agents in the tipping paper conformed to the Korsmeyer-peppas kinetic model. This method is suitable for the determination of (-)-menthone, L-menthol and (-)-menthyl lactate in cooling tipping paper for cigarettes. The three cooling agents are released quickly in the tipping paper and the process is affected by Fick diffusion. It is an effective method to analyze the release behavior of cooling agent in tipping paper by kinetic equation.