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Boy 6 months seems really early to me. Our DD was never a paci user-off of it for the most part at 3 months but went to sleep with a bottle (she would suck it dry and then be asleep). The bottle our pedi and dentist say is a much worse thing than the paci. We got rid of the bottle at 16 months but she still really needed to suck so now she goes to sleep with the pacifier. She also hides them around the house and seems to find one when she's in the midst of a temper tantrum and calms herself down (she is now 18 months).
Our dentist told me she did not get rid of her DD's paci until she was 2 so I am not stressing about it. DD knows she does not go out of the house with the paci as big girls don't need it and she does not have one at daycare. I'm confident she will give it up in the coming months (obviously we will start limiting when she can have it in the house).
My DD went to daycare and around 10 months she began to put herself to sleep there by rubbing her blanket on her face. So as they get older and can learn to sooth in other ways you can eliminate the pacifier.
Also my DD is all over the bed at night but does not need to put the paci back in to go back to sleep-sometimes she will open her eyes and appear to be awake but if I leave her alone she will go back to sleep on her own without need to have the paci. So the replugging may not be such an issue.
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