Counting down damage taken(resolved)

Could be an obvious answer but I need some assistance with this counter. I have a player in an RPG taking damage, but rather than have the damage be simply taken off it counts down the damage to a new value.

So i've set it up like this, where CurrentHP is the current HP of the character and NewHP is a new value set by CurrentHP-Damage :

Every tick

While

Char1.CurrentHP > Char1.NewHP ------------ Set Char1.CurrentHP to Char1.CurrentHP-1

When set up like this it just takes off the damage amount and updates to show newHP, so it's half working but it hasn't counted down by 1 every tick. If i remove the While and the variable comparison then the HP does just count down by 1 every tick as I expect but then of course there are no limits, it just keeps counting down. This is why I put the newHP in place, to set a limit. Am i missing something obvious here as to why it won't count down by 1 every tick while the HP is greater than the new HP?

Nevermind I fixed it by adding a different kind of variable comparison.

OnDamage ----------- SetNewHP to CurrentHP-Damage

Every tick

If StopDamage = 0 ------------- SetChar1.CurrentHP to Char1.CurrentHP - 1

If Char1.CurrentHP = Char1.NewHP ------------- StopDamage = 1