
What we now call “the Pill", is also referred to as Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill (COCP), a combination of a progestogen and oestrogen. Birth control pills are taken by mouth to avoid conception. Birth control pills were first approved as contraceptive medicine in the United States in 1960. Nowadays it is one of the most effective and popular way of birth control. Millions of women all over the world discovered all the benefits of Birth control pills: they have proved to be very effective( the efficiency is near 100 %) , easy in usage and safe for health. All that lead to a fact that Birth control pills are used by more than 100 million women all overe the world.
Birth control pills were developed to prevent ovulation by suppression release of gonadotropin by progestogenic and estrogenic. Birth control pills (COCP) as their primary mechanism of action prevent the release of eggs from the ovaries.
The efficiency of Birth control pills depends on the correct usage and accurate following of all the instructions of chosen pills. One of the most important things is that women should take pills every day at same concrete time. This will guarantee a constant high level of birth control pill's efficiency. To make it easier to remember women can select some concrete time that, for example when they clean their teeth in the morning.