This research intends to identify common smoking triggers and barriers to quitting smoking; understand useful and effective strategies for smoking cessation; and explore the feasibility and acceptability of mobile phone-based interventions among low-income smokers.

This research intends to identify common smoking triggers and barriers to quitting smoking; understand useful and effective strategies for smoking cessation; and explore the feasibility and acceptability of mobile phone-based interventions among low-income smokers.

Specific research questions of this research project are:

1. What are the common smoking triggers and barriers to quitting smoking for low-income smokers?
2. What are the preferred and useful smoking cessation strategies based on low-income smokers quitting experience?
3. What is the feasibility and acceptability of using a) text messages, b) virtual reality programs, and c) just-in-time adaptive smoking cessation interventions among low-income smokers?

Inclusion criteria:

1. between 18 and 89 years old
2. current smokers
3. reside in Denver Metropolitan Area
4. have a personal cell phone
5. have a household income at or lower than 200% of the federal poverty level; and
6. ability to read and speak English or Spanish (since a large proportion of the low-SES population in Denver are Spanish speakers).

Exclusion criteria:

1. Unable to provide informed consent;
2. age ≥ 89 years;
3. unable to speak or understand English, or Spanish.

We will recruit low-income current smokers