you value your health much more than money...or do you??

Thinking of quitting smoking?  Well, here are three reasons why you should quit and they are money, money, money!

Yes we know that there are a thousand health reasons why you should quit and we know that you value your health much more than money...or do you?? From our own research at Ukmedix News and also from the results of other research projects we have seen that incredible as it may seem the majority of people are more likely to respond to the financial incentives of quitting smoking than they are to the health incentives.

Crazy as it might sound, if you focus on how much money you are saving every week by not buying cigarettes and by reducing your health and life insurance payments you might find more motivation to quit smoking than by focusing on the health benefits. Why is this you might ask yourself?

People respond to immediate incentives which they can 'touch and feel' straight away rather than more obscure incentives in the future. Even though the health benefits of quitting are huge and to a small extent immediate they don't have the same sort of impact as the immediate financial effect that quitting smoking does. With cigarettes now costing almost £6.00 a packet in the United Kingdom you could be saving over £40 weekly, about £180 monthly and over £2,000 annually by quitting. Think about this carefully and ask yourself what you could do with £2,000 this time next year? Why not put £6 daily into a jar every day so that you can see the benefits of you quitting smoking increasing every day?

We're not suggesting that you completely ignore the health benefits of smoking which let's face it are the best and real reasons why you should quit but we just reckon that looking at the cash in hand is more of an immediate motivation to quit than a long term health benefit.

One more thing for those of you out there for whom money is not a problem, remember that no matter how much money you have it will not protect you from lung cancer, heart disease or any other slow and painful death which smoking will invariably eventually cause.