OBJECTIVE: One of the population and health investigation in Turkey shows that 98.9 % of the married women and 97.9 % of the married men are aware of at least one birth control method and 63.9 % of them use one of them, but only 33.7 % of them use safety methods. This study was carried out to evaluate the withdrawal method among women, who applied to rural health centers of Küçükçekmece and were willing to take health care service and consultancy about birth control methods. STUDY DESIGN: The study was achieved by using a questionnaire form and face-to-face interview method with the women willing to take family planning care (n=699) between September 1998 and June 1999 at the health care centers of Küçükçekmece, Istanbul . RESULT(s): According to the study, Withdrawal method was the most frequent one in the range of 19.3 % and IUD method was the lon-gest used one with a duration of 3.37±3.43 years. Percentage of 9.8 % of women used withdrawal method. Only 25.0 % of the women using the withdrawal method desired to keep on the same method. Two hundred twenty-three women (31.9 %) using any protective method got pregnant and % 57.8 of the pregnancies occurred during withdrawal method. CONCLUSION(s): In our opinion, the medical officials have to develop personalized treatment modalities based on the users of the withdrawal method keeping in mind that it enables contraception to some extend.