Help with a very hard integral

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$$ \int^{\infty}_{1} \Bigl(\,\Bigl|3\mathrm{e}^{-\tfrac{x^2}{\sqrt{x-1}}}+x\Bigr|-\Bigl|3\mathrm{e}^{-\tfrac{x^2}{\sqrt{x-1}}}-x\Bigr|\,\Bigr)\,\mathrm{d}x= \int^{\infty}_{1} \Bigl(3\mathrm{e}^{-\tfrac{x^2}{\sqrt{x-1}}}+x-\Bigl|3\mathrm{e}^{-\tfrac{x^2}{\sqrt{x-1}}}-x\Bigr|\,\Bigr)\,\mathrm{d}x$$

I literally have no idea on how to do this, perhaps through complex analysis or polar coordinates(?). Also I only want an exact answer.

Thanks!

Edit: Thanks to metamorphy for pointing out that I don't need the first absolute value.

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The first step is proving $3\exp -\frac{x^2}{\sqrt{x-1}}<x$ for all $x\ge 1$. (Judging by this graph, you just need to check its derivative is negative.) So your integral is $$\int_1^\infty \left(3\exp -\frac{x^2}{\sqrt{x-1}}+x+3\exp -\frac{x^2}{\sqrt{x-1}}-x\right)dx=6\int_1^\infty\exp -\frac{x^2}{\sqrt{x-1}} dx.$$However, there doesn't seem to be a non-numerical method for this.