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It was a difficult day

JonesCarpeDiem
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      My cellular carrier recently migrated me to another carrier and last week I dropped my phone in the parking lot and the screen went blank.  It came back on after I whacked it a couple times. Two days ago the screen went blank again. I whacked it again and it came back on again.

      I went to their website and signed in but couldn't even see what my plan included so I decided to go into the store this morning with the phone I dropped and an identical phone to have my number ported from the intermittent damaged phone to the undamaged phone.

      Before this migration BOTH PHONES WORKED. I could use either phone to call.

      I went to the store when they opened at this yesterday morning and explained the situation and the attendant says she can do that for me.

      She makes the switch online but the new phone won't accept the change. She tried a number of times without success. She called tech support to see if they could help.

      It was a no go.

      Here's the kicker. The working phone I came in with NO LONGER WORKS.

      I WAS LIVID but didn't consider smoking

      I LOVED MY PHONE. IT WAS NOT A SMARTPHONE and I did not want a smartphone, but, it was great for my needs because it was compact and had a slide out keyboard for texting. 

      So, I came home very pissed off and spent the rest of the day on my Skype phone number attempting to have it reversed but no go. I went to Walmart and got a flip phone for $20 and $20 worth of airtime and spent 2 hours this morning adding my contacts to the new phone. My old plan was $30 a month and since I rarely used my phone the last few years I'll move on.

      And so it goes.....

      

   

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.