The goal of this thesis is to examine how stakeholders who work with community health workers, including directors of training programs and direct managers, perceive the needs of community health workers in the domain of tobacco cessation programs and education. I will also examine how the needs of stakeholders are aligned with those of community health workers, as well as potential implications of misalignment. Results show salient themes of role playing, rapport, and resources for distribution mentioned by the stakeholders, which are largely adjacent to the need of CHWs for evidence-based personalized methods for tobacco cessation, motivation, and key language. Their themes are more consistent with empowering their CHWs and giving them the tools that they need, while CHWs are more focused on their patients, as is both of their mandates, respectively. Ultimately, both are interested in effective tobacco cessation and the decrease in tobacco rates in the communities they are a part of.