Table V.

Motivators for smoking cessation

Theme	Exemplar quotations	Age and relation to child	Frequencya
Cessation treatment options	If I talked to a counselor, it [would] make me feel good talking to somebody to see where I go here from here.	25; Birth mother	16
	It feels good because you got a lot of product out here that can help you stop smoking.	26; Birth mother
	I would definitely need some sort of aid to help me along.	39; Birth father
Social network	It will be better off if you stop because a lot of people say it’s good if a person don’t smoke. People say you can be happy without smoking	25; Birth mother	13
	I have a sponsor and I have to go to NA and, I have my church. I don’t have to go through what I go through alone.	48; Birth father
	My aunt said she wants to stop smoking too, so I said maybe we can do it together.	41; Birth mother
Money	I save more money and that money can go to other things than what I spent on cigarettes.	41; Birth mother B	12
	I’ve been spending money on the kids more, so I haven’t had money to buy cigarettes.	26; Birth mother
Physician support	I’m talking to my doctor now, we in the process [of getting] my weight and health to a point where I can start the weaning [off cigarettes]	41; Birth mother	7
	My doctor put me on the patch […] I couldn’t do this without the patch and I was a nonsmoker for 3 years.	41; Grandmother
Do not want my child to smoke	He’s better off for me to try to stop [smoking] right now so he don’t see Daddy give ‘the okay’, like [smoking] is cool.	26; Stepfather	7
	I don’t want my kids to grow up to smoke because I know it’s not good…I feel like whatever they see me do, they gonna do.	26; Birth mother

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