Table II.

Barriers for implementing a HSB

Theme	Exemplar quotations	Age and relation to child	Frequencya
Asking others not to smoke in the home	How do you bring company to your house and then tell them that they can’t smoke in the house?	26; Birth mother	20
	I really don’t have no powers, She’s my mother, and can’t tell her nothing, so let her do what she wants.	33; Birth mother A
	My mother smokes in her room, and this is her house. I ain’t gonna throw my mother out.	33; Birth mother B
Extended family living in home	It’s three smokers [in the house]: my brother, my boyfriend, my father and me.	41; Birth mother	19
	My dad is a smoker. It’s pissing me off because I don’t smoke, but yet I’m not home and he’s [the child] still being exposed to it.	24; Birth mother
	I wished my uncle would [stop] but I know that’s not the case. I still smell smoke coming out of his room.	41; Birth father
Social network	When I have company over, there is probably going to be smoker because I have quite a few people that I know that smoke.	30; Birth mother	15
	I’m trying to do so much now. I don’t have family members around [to help].	39; Birth mother
Weather	I’m talking snow all over the place where they can’t go outside and really smoke.	39; Birth mother	13
	It’s getting colder so we do more smoking in the house just because of the weather.	29; Birth mother
Childcare	I’m still smoking in the house…I don’t have anybody to watch her so I can go outside.	39; Birth mother	8
	When I’m standing outside [to smoke] she’ll come out there at the door.	43; Birth mother
	If my dad goes out to smoke then (the child) is right there next to him and he’s probably inhaling all of that.	24; Birth mother
Neighbor-hood safety	I prefer not to be outside. Whatever they doing I just don’t want to be a part of it. I just don’t like to see all what’s going on out there.	41; Birth mother	4
	I’m trying to find a job, so I can move, so I can have a safe home for her.	43; Birth mother
	The people next door sit out there and roll joints and smoke [marijuana] all day. When I have company, you can’t sit out front because they’re smoking at the next stoop.	49; Grandmother
Police Involve-ment	I see the police riding, they’ll come walk their beat, ask questions, I don’t want to get involved so I just basically stay in the house.	41; Birth mother	2
	When I bring my company here we stay inside because where I live, if the police see a lot of people in the front, then they bother us, so I’d rather keep my company inside where they won’t have to be harassed.	26; Birth mother

^aIndicates number of participants who endorsed this theme (n = 52).