TOBACCO ROAD

When actor J.C. Quinn (“Silkwood,” “VisionQuest”) told his friends Judith Adell and Dyanne Asimow Simon that the only way he’d quit smoking was if he was tied up and onstage, they took him to heart: The two women are lining up a theater and backers for Quinn’s “conceptual performance art” piece scheduled for the week of Nov. 4-11.

Quinn will live onstage for the full week in a replica of his own apartment. Ticket-holders can walk in any time, 24 hours a day, and watch the actor eat, sleep, watch TV, talk on the phone and tell dirty jokes. He is promising to be “entertaining” each evening from 8 to 10.

Quinn, who has smoked two packs a day for 30 years, will be manacled to the stage, and his health will be monitored by “a prominent physician.” His ordeal will be taped and edited and the video offered to nonprofit health organizations.