How to put iPhone 4 on silent, not the silent switch?

The silent switch on my phone doesn't really work. I will slide it off and it will basically have a panic attack, switching back and forth between silent and normal volume, basically having the phone equivalent of epileptic seizures, vibrating randomly, until I turn the switch back to it's normal position.
This may be a really stupid question, but I was wondering if there was another way to turn it on silent. The lowest volume works in most situations, but the sound of my phone ringing makes me all nervous (not important, I just get nervous a about social contact and that is what I associate with my phone noises) and I'd like to keep it silent most of the time.
I went to the sound setting and I just can't figure it out.
Will I have to deal with it (getting it fixed isn't really an option right now), or is there something I can do to manually put it on silent.

Go to settings and it is under sounds, and turn the sound all the way down.
Or something else in sound settings.

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