sleep and pacifiers

Is it bad if your baby falls asleep with the paci. I used to rock and the paci would pop out of the mouth then I'd put baby down. But now I'm trying to put her in the crib instead of rocking her till she's limp asleep. So she's sucking the paci in the crib until she falls asleep. I feel like getting her to fall asleep off me (not having to rock her till she's out) and hopefully falling asleep on her own is a bigger hurdle to overcome than weaning from a paci? I just hate feeling like my baby is dependent on a paci. But she only uses it to go to sleep. Any one else use one to go to sleep at 11/12 months?