| How do you feel about using monitors to keep homes smoke free? |
| It can change the way you live… |
| You think twice before you light a cigarette. |
| Good knowing your air quality, especially when you have children. |
| I’m pretty excited about it. |
| How long could we place the monitors in homes as part of research? |
| I think a 6 month period. |
| I think 6 months to a year. |
| As long as it would take. |
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Feedback Mechanism Questions and Responses
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| What do you think about lights and sound? |
| We all know green is good, yellow is warning and red is danger. |
| . not like a smoke detector that’s loud, obnoxious and continuous. You don’t want the same type of alarm as a smoke detector, because you wouldn’t want families to say “that’s the air monitor”. |
| If something bad was in the air, it could be louder, maybe at a moderate pace? |
| What do you think about showing the particle levels on a laptop screen? |
| It’s very good to see what the levels of contamination are in the house and the difference we can make. Or you have a message on the computer of the levels and perhaps a tip. It would also be good knowing which room the pollutants are in or what is happening in the whole house. |
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Others’ Reactions Questions and Responses
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| What positive or negative reactions do you think other people might have to the feedback? |
| Lots of people like me don’t want to smoke. I want to quit very badly. Sometimes you just need that extra push in front of your face. |
| It’s an opportunity to educate people. I don’t think my friends that are smokers would react negatively. If there is something beeping, I’m going to explain. It’s a way of opening up a dialog. |
| The fact that you have something concrete to show you’re improving is a motivator. |
| I’d have a hard time sitting there smoking when I realize how much I’m polluting. |
| If I enter a home that had the monitor and they were non-smokers and they say ‘okay, because you smoked in the house this is what happened’, I would make changes obviously. |
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Participation Questions and Responses
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| Who might want to use the monitoring system? |
| … people who want to quit smoking… |
| … this is great when you have children or even before. |
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Participation Barriers Questions and Responses
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| … the smoker is so hard core they’re just not going to change. |
| … they’re criticized enough as a smoker… being a smoker is like being a junkie right now. There is very negative connection so approaching them about it could be difficult |
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Participant Recruitment - Suggestions
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| Participants suggested that we recruit families that have children with allergies and that we recruit from health clinics, employee lounges, grocery stores and schools. |
