Disable imessage without an iPhone

Hey all, my iPhone recently broke and until i get a new phone i'm on my old brick nokia, however people keep sending me imessages instead of normal text, which is obviously annoying as i dont get them to my phone.. I have imessage on my macbook but i really just want to stop the option of people contacting me via iMessage at all so i don't miss messages when i'm not on my laptop.. I don't want to close my apple account as i stil use the cloud calendar and things... how can i just get rid of imessage? Found a couple of answers on here but they all explain how to do it in the settings on your iphone... which isn't an option as it's broken. I'm sure it's something simple but i'm damned if i can figure it out...
Cheers in advance!
Sam

The following quotation is from Apple's instructions for deactivating iMessage in Can’t receive text messages on a non-Apple phone - Apple Support
If you don't have access to your iPhone, or if you can't deactivate iMessage from your iPhone, please contact Apple Support. Support for this issue is free.

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