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1 Start your pills today. 2  If you start your pills today, you should use a backup method of birth control (condoms with spermicide) during the first 7 days of the pill package. 3  Birth control pills will start to protect you from pregnancy after the first week, if you take them correctly.
You can take birth control pills as long as you need birth control or until you reach menopause, as long as you're generally healthy.This applies to combination and progestin-only birth control pills for women who are nonsmokers and progestin-only birth control pills for younger women who are smokers.he effect of birth control pills on breast cancer risk isn't clear. Some research indicates that birth control pills slightly increase the risk of breast cancer â but that 10 or more years after stopping the pill, a woman's breast cancer risk returns to the same level as if she had never taken birth control pills.