How do you smooth out lines in Photoshop CS5

I have some black and white line art drawings. The lines are not smooth and sharp, and instead have tiny jagged edges. I tried using the smudge tool, and that does smooth out the lines but it also makes the lines a little sloppy. That's probably how the Smudge Tool got its name. Is there a way to use this incredible software to create smooth lines? I've learned how to create paths, but I can't figure out how to use the paths to change the line art. Maybe this is what I'm looking for?

Noel Carboni wrote:
...to use a Path then add a Stroke style, so that it remains editable? .....
-Noel
If I understand your question correctly then the answer is yes.
You can create an arbitrary path whose shape, open or closed, can remain editable throughout your session and it can be duplicated if needed. That path can then be stroked with a pixel painting or editing tool. Lets say you create a new layer and stroke a path with a colored brush. You can then add a style to that layer, move that same path and add a different stroke on a second layer and then duplicate the path, move it and edit its shape and then do yet another stroke and style on a third layer. This is what I've done in the image below showing the stroke & styled paths as well as the vector path in the bottom path.
Once a path has been stroked to a layer and has had a layer style applied it is only editable as pixels, but the shape remains as a path which can re restroked or moved or reshaped so flexibility is high.
Paulo

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HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE/WHAT I”D LIKE TO SEE
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