Table 6.

Future indoor tanning intentions

Themes (N)	Supporting participant quotations
Future intentions
i. No, definitely not (7)	“I would say definitely not.” “No. I would never, um… I just thought, you know… I just don’t… like I said, with what I know about skin cancer, and the effects that I know use to… if I was gonna go back to a salon to tan, I would probably go and opt for a spray tan or something safer like that.”
ii. Probably not/only a slim chance of use again (4)	“[Pauses] I… don’t intend to. But… I mean, yeah, I would say, that… there’s a very slim chance that I would…Like, a 2 % chance. Like if I went on Dancing with the Stars.” “Um, again, if there was a big event, where I felt like it would help if I was a little bit tanner? I might go for a little bit? I don’t tan very well, like, naturally, out in the sun? And so that’s kind of an easy way to build up like a small base tan.” “I guess, maybe if there was an important event, like, if my brother got married I might… and I was in the wedding, I would possibly think about it? But, I really doubt it.”
iii. Probably will (3)	“Yeah, I probably will, but I’ll probably make it more, really FOR an event that I needed to be… or feel a little darker for? Um, but I don’t think I would go back for no reason.” “[Takes a deep breath] I probably will.”
Alternatives to indoor tanning: sun tanning
i. Weekly in the summertime (4)
ii. Tanning 1–2 days/month, year round (1)
iii. During vacations/social outings (4)	“Um… usually, I mean, I’m only at the beach one week a year, so… I mean, maybe I’m in that sun for, you know, five hours a day that week. And that’s really the only time I get out.” “Um, sometimes in the summer? More of like a social thing… I’ve got friends who were going to lay out at the pool, so I’ll go with them and we’ll hang out and like, lay out in the sun, too. But only during the summers, or on vacation.. Um, like five or ten times over the summer?”
iv. Engagement in more outdoor activities in the spring or summer to get sun, but not specifically laying out to tan (2)	“Um, every weekend I try to get out in the sun for a little bit, just doing yard work and whatnot, and I’ll wear something that I can tan my shoulders. I don’t ever lay out, but I’ll… I’ll go outside to do yard work with the intention of getting some sun.” “Um… actually, I don’t tan outside… as much as I used to when I was, um, a teenager. But I… because I work, um, and I don’t have a pool or anything like that. Um… but, I would just say, I mean, typically I’ll… it’s just whatever time I spend in the sun on the weekend? Like, gardening, or doing whatever.”
v. Don’t lie out to tan or spend much time in the sun at all (3)	“Not much. Yeah, I don’t really spend that much time in the sun, um, in general.”
Alternatives to indoor tanning: sunless tanning products
i. Have tried them but don’t like them (4)	“No…Um, I’ve tried different lotions and everything. But I, I never really liked them, so.” “Not currently. I haven’t in about two years…They… um, didn’t really look legitimate? They looked very artificial?…I used to go, yeah, to the booth and have it done. Um… and I also, um, I felt like it rubbed off on my clothes a lot.” “I’ve used it once before. I can’t remem… I think it was before, um, I used the tanning beds for txhe last time… Uh, I think they kind of turn you orange? I don’t like the look of them.” “I have used self-tanner in the past, but I’ve also, um, years ago, I got a spray tan…self-tanners I’m not a fan of, just because it makes me look orange. And then, the spray tan, I’ve… um, I got one when it first came out? And, I just didn’t like… um, they were like all over my sheets and my pillows, and I didn’t like them so I haven’t gone back.”
ii. Use them to prepare for events	“Um, again, as an event, if I’m wanting to get a little darker for an event, I’ll… I’ll use some of the lotions, or the sunless, with the sprays.” “Only once in awhile, before an event or something… I use a lotion that you can apply that you get over the counter.” “Um, yeah. I actually have tried some of the… um, lotions. Um, especially for my sister’s wedding, well, ‘cause I did feel like I need to have some color, ‘cause her winter… um, her wedding was in the winter months. And, um, so I did try some… some of those tanning products. But that was really the only time. I haven’t really used it, other than that.”
iii. Use them sporadically in the summer/to prepare for summer (2)	“Oh – has that changed since I quit. Um, not really. I mean, I guess I used it occasionally… used them occasionally, before I had used the tanning beds, too? So, it’s pretty much the same – I use them sporadically, in the summer.” “I don’t use ‘em that much, now. I might use them now for, um… for summer, like to get ready for the summer. ‘Cause again, I live in England, so it’s not… there’s a lot of sun and opportunity to just hang out. But, um… they’ve definitely improved a lot over the years. The smell’s improved in the way that they… whatever it is that’s interacting with their dermus, and in a way… I don’t know,… splotchy… I mean, I just think there’s so many, the products out there, but, I just, um… my experience with them has been good, and I’ve been happy with them when I want to use them, which isn’t that frequently. So… You know, like… you know, it would be totally different if I lived in Texas, where my mom probably uses it, you know, from March to October, every… every week. So, I would say when I was living in the US, um, I was probably using it at least once a week.”
iv. Use them as an alternative to tanning beds (2)	“I…well, just this… just recently, I started using this tanning… a self-tanning lotion, and it builds your tan gradually, and I sort of have been supplementing the tanning… I mean, I used it while I was tanning, and then I’ve used it as I’ve stopped, um… but I’ve just kind of continued what I, what I got, I guess” “Yeah. ‘Cause when I was… when I was tanning in the tanning beds, I never used a sunless tan… since I’ve stopped going to the tanning beds, um, that’s… that’s all I use, now. I use the sprays and I use the lotions, also.”
v. Has never tried/does not use sunless tanning products (3)	“No. I haven’t used any of those.”