>I am sure much of this does not have any thing to do with faith, but teaching false doctrine is not good works either.<
It has everything to do with faith, the BUILDING UP of your faith in the TRUTH!
Ah, yes, smoking...two Scriptures helped me greatly in that area, which I memorized at the time (many years ago):
1 Corinthians 10:31, Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
—I had to admit that my smoking didn’t glorify the Lord.
1 Corinthians 6:19, Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
—The verse is in the context of immorality (see v. 18), but my spirit understood that it applied to all things that I did, since His Spirit is living inside of me. I knew the smoking was detrimental to my body, which belongs to Him.
It was pretty hard, as I started out mostly doing it “in the flesh,” albeit I was praying and reminding myself of the Scriptures and was helped by them, as I cut down the number of cigarettes. I really wanted to quit and just couldn’t seem to. Finally, I was so frustrated at my many starts and failures, I cried out to the Lord to give me a real HATRED of the habit. [I hated smelling like smoke,I hated all the holes I burned in my clothes, I hated the way I felt in the morning, and I hated the fact that I allowed myself to be controlled by it, but I didn’t hate the actual doing of it.]
And praise the Lord, He did it, He set me free!
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Mark 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
Mark 7:18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
It was Jesus who said not to defile our bodies which are the temple of the holy spirit, so i think we should ask him what it is that defiles.
The verses above answers the question very plainly.
I was set free too, only i feel that i was set free from religion, but to each his own need. God bless.