Quit

- No, put that one down. It's gross.

It's where boys pee.

Should we say something?

- Great power of love, and happiness, and health,

we turn this wretched and disgusting form

of self destruction over to you forever.

Deliver us from the obsession to poison ourselves.

And deliver us into your pure breath of life forever.

Amen.

- May you remove these roadblocks from my life

so that I may reach the stars.

Wow.

I really want a cigarette now.

Yeah.

- Do you really spend 5000 a year on smoking?

Probably more.

- Well, from now on that money should go towards something

small and shiny in a tiny little velvet box.

I can't wait to get out this fucking city.

Nature's care, that what we need.

Just wish it was Tahiti.

Yeah, me too.

Next trip. I promise.

- We really need to support each other, okay.

I don't want to be the only

nonsmoker when we get back to LA.

You won't.

This isn't my idea of some desert bang bang.

I made a decision to quit, and I really mean it this time.

- I can do it if you can.

- It's just us against them.

You hear that?

- I thought nobody was supposed to be here.

- Not supposed to be here.

- Are you sure that this is the right place?

I don't know.

- What do you mean you don't know?

- I followed Bob's directions.

Ah, Julius.

- The love of God,

our faith in God lies in our heart, not in our minds.

The Bible says. - I'm gonna call Bob.

- The heart is deceitful in all things.

- Well? - And desperately wicked.

- No answer. Shit. - Who can know?

- God does not care

how you dress up in that suit.

I'm gonna get my knife.

- Jules, please be careful.

- God lives inside you.

Hello?

- Seize the deep down desperate perversity.

Bob?

- The sin in every man's heart.

He sees how you really are. Matthew 15:8.

Anybody here?

- His people draweth nigh unto to me

with their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips.

Hello?

- But their heart is far from me.

Your calamity will come suddenly.

Dani. It's all right.

What a dump.

What movie is that from?

That is Liz Taylor in "Virginia Wolf"

quoting Bette Davis in "Beyond the Forest",

which was directed by King Vidor after he made

one of my favorite films, "The Fountainhead".

Come here.

Thank you for doing this with me.

Thank me? Thank you.

Sweetheart, this is beautiful.

I love it.

I'm ready to take you.

Oh, Pepe Le Pew.

I really don't want that right now.

Fine, neither do I.

Stop staring at me.

What?

Nothing.

I love you.

- You love me because you need me.

- No, I need you because I love you.

I'm hungry.

- Well, if I were a bird I'd fly off

and gather you up some worms.

- What would you feed me if I were a cat?

- Well first, I murderize you a mouse,

and drop it at your feet.

Then I'd serve it up with a side of lizard legs,

and fur balls that I'd lick from your hairy tail.

What else would you lick?

Date, Monday, March 15th.

Time, 9:30 AM.

Place, Joshua Tree, Bob's house.

Reason, morning coffee and newspaper, morning routine.

Level of need, one through five, five being the highest.

Six.

Oh, my friends are in here.

And here is your brother, Mr. Coffee.

Fuck, fuck.

Jesus.

Bitch!

- Step outside to a full

refreshing flavor you can trust 20 times a pack.

Start your day with confidence,

and make the difference where it counts.

Rich, bold, and designed for that certain pleasure.

Confidence, be that. Confidence, be that.

Be that, confidence.

Are you okay?

Are you okay?

Yeah.

Yeah, no I'm fine.

You're not freaking out yet?

No.

- When it's time to smoke,

fill your lungs with confidence.

(TV chattering in the background)

We should talk about the plan.

What plan?

- You know, how we're gonna get through this?

We already talked about that.

We're gonna do it through

the love and supportive of each other.

But I did buy all these tools,

and I think we should decide how best to use them.

- Okay, well you can do whatever you want.

I've done this before, all right. I know what works for me.

- Will you listen to yourself? You've done this before.

- Yeah. Yes. - Yeah.

- But I wasn't ready, like I am now.

Just humor me, all right.

- Okay, I'll humor you.

I got everything right here.

First off, I've got nicotine gum. And they got a new flavor.

- You mean one that doesn't taste like licking an ashtray?

- No, they fixed that. A lot of R and D went into that.

- What in the world are you holding?

- It's a inhaler, nicotine inhaler.

It delivers the nicotine orally.

Is this smoking too?

- Millions of people have used these tools to quit smoking.

Trust me.

- I know. But you know what? I'm not millions of people.

I am Danielle Thomas, and I do not smoke.

- Look at this. This is a big rubber band.

While you're thinking about smoking,

you'll connect the snapping to the smoking.

You won't want to smoke.

I've got lip balm.

I've got lots of lollipops here.

A self-affirmation CD.

Last but not least, the journal record keeper,

widely recognized as the most effective way

to identify the addiction as it happens.

Well, how does that work?

- All right, well let me read you an entry.

Date, Monday, March 15th.

Time, 9:30 AM.

Place, Joshua Tree, California, Bob's house.

Reason, morning coffee.

You smoked?

You smoked?

I journaled it, though.

- You - But I journaled it.

Wait, hold on. You smoked?

Are you? You're kidding me. - I had one.

- But then I did my due diligence.

I put it in the journal record keeper.

Oh my God.

I don't even know how to take that.

God, you're. - It's not a big deal.

- It's not a big deal? - It's not that big a deal.

I mean, we have to just. - We quit.

The system.

You're so weak.

It has been 14 hours since we stopped,

and you've been sleeping for 10 of them.

What is your problem?