Table 2.

Themes reflecting community college smoking education efforts and programs

Theme	Sample Quote
Availability of smoking literature (quote 1)	There’s the pamphlets that the student health puts out, there’s a display rack right outside this office, there’s posters throughout the school. Every semester they’re refreshed put in new locations about the percentage of students that choose not to smoke, the percentage of students that are making healthy situations, um, so that it’s right there you can walk through the school without noticing something about the students that don’t smoke and that, that are making healthy choices and that you can go to wherever it says on the poster to get more information. (Male, Veteran Student)
Students don’t read smoking literature (quotes 2–5)	There’s so many different things up on the walls, it’s like most people don’t stand there and wait and read all the different flyers. It’s like I got class, I got friends, I got things to do. (Male, Traditional Student)
	Sometimes I just really don’t give two cents to anything that’s on the walls. I mean I’m just getting to my class I really don’t care. (Male, Traditional Student)
	I am not a big electronic person I have only got into it because of schooling other than that at home I could care less. I don’t have Internet. I do, because I have to log on to see my classes and assignments, and submit assignments to. (Female, Returning Student)
	I was given these three bulletin boards that I can use and at first I thought, “Ugh, bulletin boards! Who reads these days? Who looks at these things?” But what I did was I put little cups with small pieces of paper in them that they could take. (Director of Health Center)
Services vary and depend on staff perception (quotes 6 – 7)	But I don’t see it as the numbers are so great that they’re, ‘Oh my goodness, look at them all out there.’ I don’t it as a major campus-wide problem but that just may be me because I’m not a smoker and I don’t really look at them. (Director of Health Center)
	My opinion on smokers, I’m a absolute anti-smoker, I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life, but as a health educator, I have a lot of compassion for smokers because, when you think the degree of addiction they go through, that they can’t shake this, and they go through all of these health problems that you see, as a nurse. So if a student asked me, I’d certainly try to steer them in the right direction. (Educator, Department of Nursing)
Positive relationships with health center but don’t ask for quit help (quotes 8–9)	The health center here, I would say [is reliable], yes. They’re goal here is to keep students healthy, they’re not making money off me coming in here saying I got a cough. (Male, Veteran)
	To be honest, I really don’t get asked [for quit help]. Students don’t come to us asking for that kind of help. Once in a while we find out that someone smokes, we’ll be like what, we didn’t even know that. (Educator, Department of Nursing)
Smoking is not a priority to college leaders (quotes 10–11)	General [health], general [health], just yeah, and that’s a slow approach. But as far as some of our most active efforts are in those areas of violence and recovery. (Student Services Administrator)
	One of the activities was simply send me an email engaging them in the technology using their student email. Send an email explaining what grade you’d like in this course and what you plan to do in order to attain that. Following that class, I had a discussion with them about the language that they used. What I call text writing, lower case I’s, the difference between t-o and t-o-o and t-w-o because it was apparent in the emails that I received. (Director of Residential Life)