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Table 1 Interview guides

From: Breaking the habit: a qualitative exploration of barriers and facilitators to smoking cessation in people with enduring mental health problems

People with mental health problems (MHPs)

Health and social care professionals

- Smoking history (age started; why started; consumption)

- Experience of working with people with MHPs who smoke

- Perceived positive and negative aspects to smoking

- Views on why people with MHPs smoke

- Times when smoke more or less

- Smoking cessation (views on barriers and facilitators in people with MHPs)

- Contact with others who smoke

- Own role in encouraging/supporting smoking cessation (views on barriers and facilitators)

- Others’ views on smoking (friends, family, professionals)

- Views and experience of specialist smoking cessation services for people with MHPs

- Perceived positive and negative aspects to smoking cessation (barriers and facilitators)

- Knowledge of smoking cessation guidelines

- Views and experience of existing smoking cessation services/support

- Training and education (smoking + smoking cessation)

- Impact of mental health problem (if any) on smoking/smoking cessation