Cheating decreases your sense of self worth and your sense of value as a person. It can also become a habit that undermines many aspects of your life. Cheating threatens your ability to perform your chosen work. The grading process becomes meaningless if grades are based on dishonest performance. It not only makes your grade meaningless, it devalues the grade of everyone in the course.
Most people care about their reputation.
Ask yourself if it is worth the cost if your name becomes associated with cheating. Gardner, John and A. Jerome Jewler. Wadsworth Publishing . 1997.